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Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, until 21 June 2020
Currently on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, ‘Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk’ traces the sartorial and social significance of the kimono from the 1660s to the present day, both in Japan and in the rest of the world.
Safavid number games in Sarajevo
In HALI 195 of Spring 2018, Fatima Žutić reports on the long-unseen but often-mentioned 17th-century Kerman ‘vase technique’ carpet fragments, revealed to the public in February of this year at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Williamsburg and on show until…
Katie Welch · 3 min
Anatomy of an Object: Opus Anglicanum Panels
Clare Browne tells the story of a set of 14th-century needlework panels with scenes from the Life of the Virgin.
David Young · 3 min
The Fifth International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets, Baku
The 5th International Symposium on Azerbaijani Carpets (ISAC 2017) took place on 17-20 October 2017 in Baku. The programme was ambitious, with three days of lectures, museum exhibitions and numerous cultural events.
From HALI 193: 'Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance' at The Met
In the regular Anatomy of an Object feature in HALI 193, curator Elizabeth Cleland explains the concept behind The Met exhibition that uses the currency of cows to illustrate the expense of tapestries at the time of their manufacture.
