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Results from Christie's and Bonham's from day one of Islamic Art Week London, 21 April 2015

Sonia Delaunay at the Tate Modern represents the artist's considerable body of radical designs for fashion and textiles for interiors, alongside paintings that chart her practice from early figurative works to energetic 1960s abstracts.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
'Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
The star piece of the upcoming Rugs & Carpets, Ethnographic Art sale at Nagel in Stuttgart on 24 March is lot 25, a Tekke animal tree asmalyk. From the collection of former Stuttgart district Court councillor Burkhardt, it is a new discovery, becoming one of only 14 known…

First Glance – Second Look: Quilts at the Denver Art Museum by Dale Carolyn Gluckman

From 26 February to 20 March 2015, Wild Teppich- und Textilkunst in Berlin-Mitte will show selected Afghan war rugs, woven in the period between the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s through to almost the present day. These rugs shock through juxtaposing the…