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Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Parviz Tanavoli Retrospective at the Davis Collection, MA
The first comprehensive retrospective of work by the ‘father of modern Iranian sculpture’, Parvis Tanavoli at a US museum is to be held at The Davis Collection at Wellesley College, MA, 10 February – 7 June 2015.
Kilims from the Neiriz Collection at the Volkspark, Halle
The Berlin artist/art dealer Hamid Sadighi is descended from Southwest Persian tribal khans. Until 30 November 2014, the exhibition '100 Kelims' representing about one third of his collection of 19th century Persian tribal and nomadic flatweaves (arguably the world's best),…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Tom Cole's Light on Persia, October 2014
Tribal weavings from northwest and south Persia are now show in San Rafael, just a short drive north of the Golden Gate Bridge in California’s Marin County, at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor, Thomas Cole . Light on Persia can be viewed until 1 December 2014.…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
'Front/Back' – Alberto Levi online exhibition
The Alberto Levi Gallery in Milan are currently showing Front/Back, an online exhibition of small tribal Persian weavings.
Beshir Prayer Rugs, supplement to HALI 181
In the light of the Marketplace report in HALI 181 (Autumn 2014), which is devoted to Middle Amu Darya region prayer rugs, we republish here Ralph Kaffel's 2007 article 'Beshir Prayer Rugs' (HALI 151, pp.74-83) as well as the online supplement 'Classification by Design',…
