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Denver Art Museum: Red, White & Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870
Red, White and Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840-1870, at the Denver Art Museum until 22 September 2013, presents about 50 of the greatest examples of Navajo design expression.
Sotheby's NY: Arts of the American West
Sotheby’s 22 May auction of the Arts of the American West realised almost $4 million. This was the first Sotheby’s sale to bring together the best examples of American Indian artistic traditions as well as Western paintings and works on paper spanning 2,000 years of cultural…
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Andy Williams’ Navajo blankets make a million
All 61 lots in The Andy Williams Collection of Navajo Blankets (actually 58 blankets and three baskets) on Tuesday 21 May at Sotheby’s in New York found buyers, for a total of just under a million dollars.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
More eye candy at Rippon Boswell, 25 May
Rippon Boswell's Spring sale of antique carpets and textiles in Wiesbaden on Saturday, 25 May 2013, contains a typically well presented array of fine collectables from the carpet belt of Eurasia and beyond.
Alistair Macleod from Hand and Lock speaking at London College of Fashion
In a lecture organised by the South and Southeast England Section of the Textile Institute , Alistair Macleod, chairman of Hand & Lock , will be speaking at London College of Fashion today, Wednesday 22nd May 2013. The prestigious company has specialised in producing the…
