Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Michael Craycraft R.I.P.
It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of the well-known tribal rug dealer Michael Craycraft, a genuine, if often highly opinionated and intuitive, expert on and connoisseur of Baluch and Turkmen weaving in particular.
Woven Tales at Gallery Moshe Tabibnia
Tapestries and embroideries from the most prominent textile centres of Europe are surveyed in a new exhibition and publication by Gallery Moshe Tabibnia.
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
Austria Auction Company, Vienna, 9 May 2015
Music producer and Turkmen rug collector Kurt Munkacsi's collection comes under the hammer in Vienna this May.
Malin Lonnberg · 2 min
Oriental Rugs and Carpets at Christie's, London
As part of London’s Islamic Art Week, Christie’s will hold an Oriental Rugs and Carpets auction on Tuesday 21 April in their King Street salerooms. Highlights include an early Mongol kilim, a Bukhara saf fragment and an Ottoman Cairene carpet.
Sonia Delaunay at Tate Modern
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.
