In response to popular demand, ‘Skill of the Hand, Delight of the Eye’, the Sadberk Hanım Museum’s current exhibition in Istanbul of of Turkish embroidery has been extended until the end of June 2013.
A superb 17th century carpet from Persia leads a record breaking auction of carpets at Sotheby’s New York, selling for $33m, and putting rugs in the same collecting category as Old Master and Modern paintings
Hurry, there’s still time to see the exhibition ‘Ninety-nine Names of God: Classical Art of the Islamic World from the IX to XIX Centuries’, on show for another ten days at the A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Arts, Moscow. Open until 26th May, 2013, the display shows ninety-nine masterpieces of Islamic Art from the collections of the Mardjani Foundation.
Exhibitors with items of special interest to HALI readers in the wide-open spaces of this year’s summer Olympia fair in London, until 16 June, include Galerie Arabesque (Ulrike Montigel), Esther Fitzgerald, Clive Loveless, Tribal Gathering (Bryan Reeves), Johanna Booth, Gallery Yacou, Brian Macdonald and Potterton Books,
Curated by the artist himself, Rudolf Stingel, has collaborated with Elena Geuna to conceive an installation for Palazzo Grassi. Spreading over 5,000 square metres, the exhibition begins to unfold at the atrium and spans two floors above.
The first edition of Asian Art in Brussels (AAB) is currently taking place till 9th June, 2013. Founded by the original group of dealers of BOA Fair, AAB has been expanded with some excellent new leading dealers in the arts of South and South East Asia, China, Japan and other Asian countries.
For over twenty years, a number of primitive antique dealers have open their doors to the public in the summer and this year the event will take place from the 5-9 June, 2013.
Tomorrow will be the final day to visit the Kensington Antique Rug Mercantile Association 2013 Fair, open from 11am – 9.30pm. Annually coinciding with Olympia Fine Art Fair, KARMA will be exhibiting nearby at 3rd and 4th floors 202 Apartments, 202 Kensington Church St, Kensington, London.
This first Parting Shots On-Line Album comes from the BARE antique carpet and textile fair in Berlin.
BARE – The Berlin Antique Rug Exhibition, the newest of the rug and textile world’s marketing enterprises, was held within the grittily atmospheric surroundings of the Alte Münze (Old Mint) at Molkenmarkt 2, from Friday 31 May – 2 June 2013. The event was organised by Tim Steinert and Carpet Collector Magazine, and included about thirty European dealers…. Read more »
