An album of photographs of the opening evening of the exhibition ‘100 Kelims: The Hamid Sadighi Neiriz Collection’ in Halle, Germany, where the century-old Volkspark exhibition hall, part of the city of Halle’s Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, long associated with textile education, offered an ideal, high-ceilinged location in which to expose an art-aware young… Read more »
Lila Valadan and Weddad Naziri have announced their first exhibition of Persian nomad rugs, ‘A Life in Colour’. From Friday 31st October 2014 at M. Naziri OHG’s newly redecorated warehouse in the Hamburg free port (Brooktorkai 15) they will be showing 64 selected pieces from the private collection of the late Mohammad Naziri, ranging from original Qashqa’i… Read more »
Asian Art dealer Michael Woerner will exhibit a group of six early Tibetan rugs, formerly from the Robert P. & Alice Piccus Collection, at Cologne Fine Art, Koelnmesse, 18th – 23rd November 2014.
One hundred exceptional antique Persian, Caucasian and Anatolian tribal and village kilims and other flatweaves from the collection of Berlin artist/art dealer/ethnographic textile specialist Hamid Sadighi Neiriz will be on public display for the first time in the Volkspark Halle, in the town of Halle, Germany from 6-30 November 2014.
On 26 November 2014 an imperial Yongle silk thangka from a private American collection will go on sale at Christie’s Hong Kong in the Important Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, with an estimate of HK$80,000,000.
‘Undiscovered Minimalism’, a selling exhibition at Böhmler, Munich shows the kelim collection of Werner Weber in Europe for the first time.
Woven Languages: Indonesian Ikat Textiles from the Peter ten Hoopen Collection has just opened at the Museo do Oriente, Lisbon, 23 October 2014–25 January 2015.
In its 17th year Asian Art in London will once again make the city the focus of the international Asian art market when it launches at the British Museum on 30 October 2014 with a Gala party and private view of the current exhibition, Ming – 50 Years that Changed China. Antique and contemporary art, ceramics… Read more »
A rare Uli figure, formerly in the collection of Maurice de Vlaminck, is the star of Auctionata’s upcoming online auction.
From 18 September – 5 January 2015, the British Museum will present Ming: 50 years that changed China in the new Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery
