The New York School and Navajo art meet in San Francisco
A San Francisco exhibition explains why artists such as Warhol, Pollock, Jaspar Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Judd and Frank Stella collected Navajo weavings
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Christie’s Exceptional Sale 2014
On the evening of 10 July 2014, Christie’s King Street salerooms, London will hold the fifth edition of The Exceptional Sale.
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Coronation Carpet sold in Scotland
On 25 June 2014, Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull sold a fragmented Safavid period Persian carpet with a unique story. The Holms Hepburn Coronation carpet is a typical red-ground ‘in and out palmette’ design weaving of the 17th century, perhaps Esfahan but with an untypical cartouche border, somewhat reconfigured into a squarish fragment. Nothing too unusual… Read more »
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Flying carpets in Vienna
The Carpet Hall at the Austrian Museum for Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna has just reopened to the public after an extensive and imaginative reinstallation that presents the museum’s permanent collection.
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Ruben’s Eucharist tapestries on show in Madrid
Until 29 of June, the Museo del Prado presents Rubens: The Triumph of the Eucharist. The exhibition will feature the six panels from Ruben’s series and includes four tapestries
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Native American Art Gift on show at de Young Museum
A recent gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Thomas W. Weisel Family Collection is an extraordinary anthology of Native American art assembled over three decades by the local banker and businessman Thom Weisel, a pioneer in the development of high tech industry in the Bay Area.
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Turkmens rule the roost at Rippon Boswell
In Rippon Boswell’s ‘Major Spring Auction‘ of antique carpets, kilims, embroidered textiles and carpet books on 31 May 2014, about 55% of the 243 lots sold for a gross value, including 22% premiums, of close to three quarters of a million Euros (about $1 million). Both the sold percentage and the total yield will rise during… Read more »
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Olympia Fair 2014: Tribal and Textile Art
The Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair returns for it’s 42nd edition at the Olympia exhibition centre, London, 5 – 15 June 2014.
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Missing Rugs Alert
At some unspecified time or times during the past year, three readily identifiable antique oriental carpets have disappeared from a private collection in Europe. An appropriate reward is offered for information leading to their successful recovery. In the hope that the rugs can be recovered without unnecessarily involving the authorities, HALI has been asked to… Read more »
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Art Antiques London 2014
Haughton International Fairs’ Art Antiques London takes place from 11 – 18 June 2014 in a purpose-built pavilion in Kensington Gardens opposite the Royal Albert Hall and close to the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851. The event brings together approximately 70 of the world’s leading art dealers. Antique carpets, tapestries and textiles are represented… Read more »
