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New York Asia Week: An Early Mongol Kilim at Christie’s
On view at Rockefeller Center throughout New York Asia Week 2015 is an extraordinary, and apparently unique, Central Asian or Chinese woollen kilim.
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.
Rachel Meek · 1 minUndiscovered Minimalism: Mazandaran kilims at Böhmler, Munich
'Undiscovered Minimalism', a selling exhibition at Böhmler, Munich shows the kelim collection of Werner Weber in Europe for the first time.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
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),…
100 Kelims from the Neiriz Collection at the Volkspark Halle
One hundred exceptional antique Persian, Caucasian and Anatolian tribal and village kilims and other flatweaves from the collection of Berlin artist/art dealer/ethnographic textile specialist Hamid Sadighi Neiriz will be on public display for the first time in the Volkspark…
