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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.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
Suzanis shine in Rippon Boswell's first Vok sale
The first of three single owner auctions to offer the collection of Ignazio Vok took place at Rippon Boswell in Wiesbaden on Saturday 11 April 2015. Daniel Shaffer reports.
Daniel Shaffer · 4 min
'Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC
'Unraveling Identity' at the new Textile Museum in Washington DC
Ellsworth sales: 100% for the King of Ming
During Asian Art Week in New York, from 17 March to 21 March 2015, some two thousand works of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian and European art from the collection of the late American scholar, dealer and connoisseur, Robert Hatfield Ellis (a.k.a. ‘The…
