Vikings at the British Museum
The British Museum’s blockbuster Spring 2014 exhibition, Vikings: Life and Legend 6 March – 22 June 2014 explores warfare and cultural identity amongst the often violent, raider and trader warrior race.
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Buddhist Traditions and Transformations at The Met, NY
‘Devotional Buddhist Art of North India and Tibet’, a selection of extraordinary Himalayan paintings, sculpture and illuminated manuscripts, ancient and modern, is on show until June 8, 2014 in the South Asian Art Gallery at The Met.
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Expedition Silk Road: Treasures from the Hermitage Amsterdam
This exhibition in Amsterdam from 1 March to 5 September 2014 will showcase over 250 objects, discovered by Russian expeditions, that span centuries of trade between East and West.
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Ancient & Modern Award Winners Announced
Master of tent studies, Dr Peter Alford Andrews has been granted the £1000 Ancient & Modern award for 2014. The £500 Godfrey Goodwin Prize for the runner-up goes to Oxford biochemistry graduate, Harriet Rix.
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Allegorical and Art Nouveau tapestries at Nagel, Stuttgart
Nagel’s Fine Arts and Antiques sale in Stuttgart, 26 – 27 February 2014, includes two notable German tapestries of greatly different periods and styles.
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Nelson Rockefeller’s Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at The Met, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently opened a year long exhibition of The Nelson A. Rockefeller Vision: In Pursuit of the Best in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, till 5 October 2014.
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Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq at the Courtauld Gallery
The Courtauld Gallery, London will stage an exhibition of art from the Islamic world from 20 February to 18 May 2014 centred around an incredibly intricate metalwork bag.
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Sotheby’s New York carpet sale good for all
Friday’s auction of 175 Carpets & Textiles from Distinguished Collections at Sotheby’s New York was an extremely successful event with total sales of $3,985,006.
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‘Lady and the Unicorn’ Tapestries Return to France
After an absence for restoration of almost two years, ‘The Lady and the Unicorn’ tapestries have gone back on view at the Musée National du Moyen Age, Cluny, Paris.
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Ancient Peruvian featherwork at the Metropolitan Museum, New York
Feathered Walls: Hangings from Ancient Peru, is an installation comprising twelve spectacular feather panels made by the Wari people of southern Peru, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, until 2 March 2014.
