The spectacular exhibition, Kimono for a Modern Age, at The Pavilion for Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is a must for anyone interested in design and textiles. Open until 9 October, this is one of eight exhibitions celebrating the 25th anniversary of the pavilion designed by American architect Bruce Goff (1904–1982). Sharon S…. Read more »
The Musée d’Art modern et d’Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), France is showing fifty works by Alexander Calder to 7 September 2014, the Jane Kahan Gallery, New York has original Calder tapestries for sale.
At the Focus Gallery at the Bard Graduate Centre, New York, Carrying Coca: 1,500 Years of Andean Chuspas is showing to 3 August 2014.
A San Francisco exhibition explains why artists such as Warhol, Pollock, Jaspar Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Judd and Frank Stella collected Navajo weavings
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.
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
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.
The Textile Society Collector’s Group met Helen Wolfe and Chris Spring at Blythe House to view West African textiles from The British Museum collection.
From 2 – 26 April 2014 the East wing galleries at Somerset House, London will host ‘Boro: Threads of Life’, an exhibition of 40 historic layered indigo fabrics collected by antiquarians Gordon Reece and Philippe Boudin over six years.
A concise exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 11 March – 29 June displays three mid 17th century rugs and three Dutch paintings of the same age that depict the same type of carpets.
