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Highlights from the November auction in Vienna which offers 390 lots of antique collectibles.

The ten-day annual event Asian Art in London, 3-12 November 2016, unites dealers, auction houses and societies in a series of selling exhibitions, auctions, receptions, lectures and seminars complimented by museum exhibitions.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
Curators from the Historic Royal Palaces in the UK have identified an embroidered altar cloth as a rare fragment of Elizabethan dress.
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
An unusual exhibition opens in Canada at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History in November 2016.

In HALI 189, the Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,Francesca Leoni introduces the landmark exhibition, 'Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural', showing there from 20 October 2016 until 15 January 2017.

Elena Papastavrou will speak on Orthodox church embroideries at King's College London on 25 October 2016.