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Skinner's antique rug sale on 11 May in downtown Boston has several highlights that deserve attention from international collectors and dealers.

Rippon Boswell's major Spring sale in Wiesbaden on Saturday 25 May 2013 will include a very strong group of 13 Uzbek and Tajik suzani embroideries, several of which are consigned from a German private collection of long standing. The images speak for themselves
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
President Barack Obama has revealed the appointment of HALI’s peripatetic Contributing Editor Thomas Murray to the US Government’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee.
Daniel Shaffer · 1 min
Two events in New York's Upper East Side bring the best African, Oceanic and American art to the USA for a week in May.

The oldest securely dated complete silk pile carpet from the Muslim world, now in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, is particularly significant in the history of oriental carpets. Its synthesis of patterns casts light on the extensive trade and cultural links across Asia and…