ISSUE 127 MARCH/APRIL 2003
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL HALl's 25th birthday; counting the days until the Washington ICOC.
13 | LETTERS
Moroccan or Algerian? Too little too late on the Liestal Baluch symposium; another St Andrew's cross sumakh; in praise of the Orientalists: margarine is no substitute for butter; Meyer was not the first.
15 |NEWS
NY winter antiques bonanza as Peter Pap sells an Armenian woven icon; Turkana reopens at 'Ground Zero’; new Asian and tribal art fairs for Paris and London; Cora Ginsburg fondly remembered.
19 | FRAGMENTS
Achdjian's rare Gaudissart Art Deco fragment at the V&A: Op Art too psychedelic for the HALI Fair? London's Asia House lectures on the art of collecting; Dick Wright back on track; CDMT, Terrassa says goodbye to the workmen.
37 |PREVIEW
ICOC : Round II of exhibition previews for ICOC X in Washington DC: Carol Bier reports on Andalusian carpets at the TM; khorjin and mafrash provide bags of appeal at George Washington University; Turkmen ensis - are they really a doorway to paradise? US rug societies offer a collectors' potpourri; Senator Clark's carpets at the Sackler, courtesy the Corcoran Gallery; a tantalising taster ofthe ICOC Dealers' Fair. Other exhibitions: Joss Graham brings Tibetan style to London; thangkas are hot at Carlton Rochell, NY; a textile revolution at London's Fine Art Society; William Morris at the Baltimore Museum. Auctions: Blondeei &Deroyan's fine tapestries and carpets at CLO mark the end of a great partnership.
75 |CALENDAR
Aworldwide listing of auctions, exhibitions, fairs and conferences.
83 I ISLAMIC ART
Highlights of the Spring Auction season; a celebration of Islamic music in Jerusalem; Hamza journeys to the V&A;
seventy years of Berlin's Islamic Museum; the making of a book on Persian painting; exploring the art and culture of the horse at the IMA Paris.
123 ITHE HALI GALLERY
Ahouse style advertisement section.
131 |REVIEW
89 IBOOKS
Elisabeth Hackspiel-Mikosch reviews the Abegg's Seidengewebe des 18Jahrhunderts I (Bizarre Seiden by Hans Christoph Ackermann) and II (Naturalismus by Anna Jolly); Michael Buddeberg on the TKF's limited edition Textilkunstfeuer; Alan Kennedy looks at 'A Man's Caftan and Leggings from the North Caucasus of the Eighth to Tenth Century' by Kajitani et al in the MMA Bulletin.
93 jTITLES RECEIVED
Listings of new books and catalogues.
105 | FORUM
Exhibitions; Gail Martin toasts thirty years in the textile art business - 'fiber art' is her next big thing; Linda Wrigglesworth and Sandra Whitman go geometric in San Francisco; Jim Dixon's heavenly gardens beguile the art lovers of Walnut Creek; Noh and Kyogen theatre costumes at LACMA; Ahuitzotl. the Aztec water monster at the RA, London; wrapping up for Cora Ginsburg and Alistair Sampson's NY exhibition; fruits of the silk road at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio; Siawosch Azadi sees stripes in Hamburg; Elephants and more at LACMA. Conferences: Shibori crosses many borders and ages to visit Harrogate as Jenny Balfour-Paul reports.
Islamic prayer rugs have long been analysed for their formal and symbolic properties, but Jeff Spurr believes that many other questions must be asked. How were they used, how does their function affect their nature, and how did their iconography become assimilated into Islamic textiles?
112 jBEST OF BRITISH
Textiles and Dress in the British Galleries at the Victoria &Albert Museum Linda Parry The V&A's new British galleries have brought many important textiles out of the stores and onto public display. The themed installations contextualise and interpret Britain's finest achievements in textile design and manufacture, from late medieval ecclesiastical embroidery to 18th century crewelwork, from Spiralfields silks to Arts &Crafts tapestry.
118 |JULKHYR, THE RIDDLE
OF THE ARABS Murray Lee Eiland III With their unusual weave, long pile and elongated shape created by sewing narrow strips together, Central Asian julkhyr are widely identified on the market as Uzbek. The author believes this is a misattribution, proposing that their roots lie in the Arab weaving repertoire.
141 |AUCTION PRICE GUIDE
AZoroastrian textile at SNY, a Khorasan carpet is a steal at Finarte, Venice; the Winter sales in Germany and NY.
153 |DESIGN FILE
Objects of affection at Xilufar are sure to provoke a reaction: Alberto Levi sees great potential in Jan Kath; discovering Pomak textiles; the latest releases at Domotex and Atlanta.
160 |THE DESIGN GALLERY
Amodern carpet advertisement section.
161 |NETWORK
Aclassified advertisement section.
169 |PROFILE
From Portsmouth to Portobello market, via Benares and South Molton Street, one is never sure where Clive Rogers will be tomorrow.
171 |PARTING SHOTS
Smiles from Anatolia to Padua's Antiquariato: modern faces at Hanover and Atlanta.
172 jLAST PAGE
Great-grandfather Victor's old Bergama has a story that makes for great literature. But just who is Giacomo?
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