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This weekend, 23–26 October 2014, sees twenty dealers from the Netherlands and abroad gather in the cloisters of De Duif Church on the Prinsengracht for Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam 2014.

In the world of antique rugs and textile art, the events of the past week in San Francisco may have heralded the dawn of a new reality, and not an unpleasant or perilous one at all. With the slow registration of dealers in attendance at ARTS, there were fears for the future…
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
In New York tomorrow, 22 October, Sotheby’s sale of ‘Important English and European [sic] Decorative Arts', the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are ‘deacquisitioning’ four late classical oriental carpet fragments – two Caucasian and two Chinese.
Rachel Meek · 1 minThe rugs and textiles speak for themselves at ARTS , the annual multi-dealer show at the Capri Motel in San Francisco’s Marina District (the show ends today, Sunday 19th October). Each year more than 40 American and international dealers travel here in order to rent rooms at…