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Carpet collecting at the V&A in the late 19th century
'Singular Perfection at South Kensington: Collecting ‘Persian Carpets’ for the V&A, 1873-1893' was the topic of a seminar presented at the Wallace Collection, London by Moya Carey, IHF Curator for the Iranian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, on 31 March 2014.
The London Antique Rug and Textile Art Fair (LARTA) 2014
The Showroom in Penfold Street, London will once again host the fourth LARTA Fair, from Thursday 3 April - Sunday 6 April 2014.
Lucy Upward · 2 min
Carpet Diem 2014 – Classical Chinese Carpets
On Sunday 13 April 2014, the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Maximilianstraße 42, Munich will host ‘Carpet Diem 2014’, a keynote lecture by leading collector and expert on Chinese and East Turkestan weaving Hans König
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Carpets of the East in Paintings from the West
A concise exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 11 March – 29 June displays three mid 17th century rugs and three Dutch paintings of the same age that depict the same type of carpets.
North American Indian Exhibition, Musée du quai Branly, Paris
The exhibition ‘Indiens de Plaines’ at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, from 8th April – 20th July 2014 is an investigation into the Plains Indians of North America, their iconography, the continuum of their artistic expression and their place in the changing cultural…
