Jewish Embroidered Hangings at Waddesdon Manor
Saved for the nation: Acquisition of Jewish embroidered hangings by the Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor, 26 March 2014-25 October 2015.
Saved for the nation: Acquisition of Jewish embroidered hangings by the Rothschild Foundation, Waddesdon Manor, 26 March 2014-25 October 2015.
New museums in Toronto, Geneva, Milan and Baku
Gail Martin has relocated her textile art showroom to her spacious apartment just four blocks away from the previous Gail Martin Gallery location on Riverside Drive, New York.
The first sale at the Hazara Gallery Auction Co. takes place at 11 am on 18 October 2014, here we present a selection of highlights.
Light on Persia, an exhibition of tribal Persian weavings will be on show at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor, Thomas Cole in California 14 October – 1 December 2014.
From Ashgabat to Istanbul opens at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto 8 October 2014 to 19 April 2015. The following is taken from an overview of the exhibition by the Curator, Natalia Nekrassova, read it in full in HALI issue 181.
Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance is on 8 October 2014 to 11 January 2015 in the Tisch Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The historic Massachusetts seaport of Salem is perhaps best known for the Witch Trials of 1692, brought to life in Arthur Miller’s 1953 play The Crucible. However, these days the city is also home to the Peabody Essex Museum, which holds a world-renowned Asian export art collection offering particular insight into 18th-century textile design, production… Read more »
Sixty-one pieces of 17th century English embroidery have been gifted to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by local residents, Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair returns to the leafy surroundings of Berkeley Square, London, from Wednesday 24 – Sunday 28 September 2014.