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Kum Kapi at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
For 'Kum Kapi', the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon is drawing on little known items from its collection to display a handful of very fine Istanbul workshop rugs.
Carpets and Tapestries from the Dani Ghigo Collection, Turin at Christie's London
Some fifty antique oriental carpets, as well as European tapestries, from the collection of the veteran Turin antiquarian Dani Ghigo come under the hammer at Christie's King Street in London in the second part of the Dani & Anna Ghigo Collection sale on 12 May 2016.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Antique Rugs in Vienna
Austrian Auction Company's first auction of antique rugs in 2016 is now available online.
Ben Evans · 1 min
Morning Prayers on a Northwest Persian Long Rug
The top lot of Sotheby’s London recent (19 April 2016) Orientalist sale features a northwest Persian long rug.
Seth Siegelaub at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
An extract from an exhibition review by Alan Kennedy of 'Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art' at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 12 December 2015 - 17 April 2017.
