Daniel Shaffer introduces an online exhibition and sale of Iban Dayak textiles from Borneo, collected during the 1970s and 1980s by the peripatetic tribal art collector/dealer Thomas Murray.
Tribal Art London, at the prestigious Mall Galleries from 1-4 September 2016, is the UK’s only fair devoted exclusively to authentic works of world art of all periods, from the ancient to the contemporary.
From 3 September at Villa Romana, Florence will be an exhibition of some 25 North African textiles from the private collections of Renate Anna Menzel and Paul Vandenbroeck.
The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, which takes place from 13–18 September 2016 in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London, is now in its eighth year.
‘Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles’ is open at Yale University Art Gallery until 18 September 2016. Woven tunics, mantles and wall hangings as well as related feather, gold and silver objects, tools and ceramics ranging in date from 900 BCE to the 16th century CE are on loan from two private collections.
A selection of oriental carpets, textiles and tapestries, antique and contemporary, as well as tribal art, seen on exhibitors’ stands at this year’s Olympia Fair.
The current exhibition ‘Art of the Austronesians’ at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles is showing until 28 August 2016. Read an extract from Thomas Murray’s review published in HALI 188.
A select small group of Chinese and Central Asian silk textiles from the Roger Hollander Collection are being offered in a special online exhibition and sale by Thomas Murray.
The Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia returns to west London on 27 June to 3 July 2016.
ARTS (Antique Rug & Textile Show) East returns to Boston for the second time, 10-12 June 2016.
