Artist: Shell Ornament ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Varney Masalay Nose ornament (bi pane) shell 20th century
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Varney Masalay Nose ornament (bi pane) shell 20th century
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K.A. Abrokwah Shell Ornament mother of pearl 20th century
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Ldamie Head ornament snail shell and grass 19th century
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Ldamie Chieftan's neck ornament shell and sennit cord 19th century
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Kapkap Date: 20th century Medium: clam shell, tortoise shell, cord, beads
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Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky Ancestor skull, Ndambirkus Skull, cassowary and tail feathers of the hornbill, beeswax, Abrus and Coix seeds, cane, fiber, melo shell nose ornament 20th century
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Nicolas Africano Hair ornament, Manyan Wood, pearl shell, pigment (several hooks and the animal finial are missing) 19th–early 20th century
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Robert Dighton Shell headdress tortoise shell, Tridacna shell, button, sennit, and abalone 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Ldamie Shell money shell 19th century
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Judy Kensley McKie Ornament for sacred flute Wood, traces of pigment, clay, fiber, Nassa and cowrie shell 19th–early 20th century
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Judy Kensley McKie Ornament for sacred flute Wood, traces of pigment, clay, fiber, Nassa and cowrie shell 19th–early 20th century
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Ldamie Necklace with one large shell shell and fiber 19th century
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Nicolas Africano Hair ornament Wood, shell, pigment 19th–early 20th century
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Canoe prow ornament Malaggan Melanesia, New Ireland, 19th–20th century Wood, pigments, shell 54.6 x 12.7
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Ldamie King's belt coconut shell, sea shell, and wood 19th century
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Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky Hair ornament, Manyan Wood, pearl shell, pigment (shaft missing) 19th–early 20th century
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Nicolas Africano Dance ornament Wood, Nassa shell, pigment, string 19th century
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Nicolas Africano Dance ornament Wood, pigment, pearl shell 19th century
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Tournai Factory Apron coconut fiber, shell, coconut shell, feathers, and beads 19th century
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Tournai Factory Apron coconut fiber, shell, coconut shell, feathers, and beads 19th century
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Tournai Factory Apron coconut fiber, shell, coconut shell, and glass beads 19th century
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Georgia O'Keeffe - Shell No. 1 1928 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Helen Lundeberg - The Shell 1951 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Edward Weston - Shell 1927 vintage gelatin silv Dayton Arts Institute American
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Nicolas Africano Ornament for sacred flute Wood, Nassa shell, red pigment under crusty patina, gum 19th–early 20th century
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Nicolas Africano Container for pearl shell valuable Bark or pandanus leaf, liana thread, pigment, enclosing a gold-lip pearl shell (Pinctada maxima), clay, resin, and pigment displayed on a woven necklace 20th century
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Claude Fayette Bragdon - Projective Ornament 1941 watercolor, ink and Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Claude Fayette Bragdon - Projective Ornament 1941 watercolor and ink o Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Henri Matisse - Venus in a Shell I 1930 bronze Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Nicolas Africano Dance ornament Wood, pearl shell, pigment C-14 dating: 1520–1810 (95.2% probability)
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Lucas Van Leyden - Ornament with the Head of a Soldier 1527 engraving Arkansas Arts Center Dutch
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Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky Ornament for sacred flute Coconut or animal skull (?), clay, boar tusk, basketry, fiber, human hair, cassowary feathers, cowrie, Nassa, Conus, and clam shell 19th–early 20th century
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Marsden Hartley - Shell and Sea Anemones, Gloucester 1943 oil on board Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Alphonse Nichol-Michel Mandevare Bird necklace Shell 200 - 400
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Tony Cragg - Untitled (Conch Shell) 1988 cast steel Des Moines Art Center British
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Nicolas Africano Ornament for shell valuable, Talipoon Basketry made from the stem of lygodium (a climbing vine), bone pin, cassowary feathers, pigment 20th century
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Shell trumpet (sak) Sri Lanka, 19th century Shell (Turbinella pyrum) Overall: 10.3 x 15.1 cm
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Judy Kensley McKie Mask, Mwai Wood, pigment, Conus shell, gum, fiber 19th–early 20th century
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ) Mask Stone, shell 3rd - 6th century
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Duvelleroy Fan tortoise shell with gilt 1810
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Varney Masalay Nose ornament bone 20th century
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Varney Masalay Nose ornament bone 20th century
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Varney Masalay Nose ornament bone 20th century
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Ldamie House ornament wood 19th century
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Ldamie House ornament wood 19th century
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Ldamie House ornament wood 19th century
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Shell trumpet (davui) Fiji, 19th century Shell (Bursa bubo?) 14.8 x 35.5 cm (5 13/16
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Robert Dighton Necklace shell and turquoise 19th century
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Sankh, 19th century Unknown MakerKerala State, IndiaBrass, wax; L. of shell 16 3/4 in. (42.5
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Ldamie Bracelet pearl shell 19th century
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Antonio ClavÈ Fan tortoise shell with feathers circa 1890
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Ldamie Bracelet pearl shell 19th century
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - Girl with a Shell (Jeune fille a la coquille) 1863-1867 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky Male suspension hook Wood, clay, pigment, Conus shell discs, pearl and cowrie shell, string C-14 dating: 1650–1890 (95.4% probability)
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Judy Kensley McKie Mask with shell ornaments Wood, ochre pigment, Conus shell discs, fiber 19th–early 20th century
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Robert Kushner Flowered Mat for the "Joy of Ornament" series Color aquatint, drypoint, and soft ground etching on Somerset Satin paper glued on 100% rag mat board with 3 windows cut for "Joy of Ornament" prints. 1982
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey Oval Snuff Box tortoise shell 18 - 19th century
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Sommer and Kaufmann Brise fan tortoise shell and silk circa 1900
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Salvatore Ferragamo Fan ostrich feathers, tortoise shell circa 1907
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Ali Amonikoyi Necklace kina shell and cord 20th century
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Martha Lowton Fan ostrich feathers and tortoise shell 1890 - 1900
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Frances A. Atwell Fan ostrich feather and tortoise shell circa 1890
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Frances A. Atwell Fan ostrich feather and tortoise shell circa 1890
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Anonymous Fan lace and imitation tortoise shell 1890 - 1900
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Richard Fiscus Fan fiber, turtle shell, paint, and wood 1944
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Rose Gonzales Mayan God headband ornament jade 600 - 900
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Ldamie Neck ornament beads and brass buttons 19th century
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Ldamie Boat ornament with monkey wood and paint 19th century
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Shell trumpet (hora) Japan, 19th century Shell (Charonia tritonis), silk rope 21 x 38.5 cm
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Sommer and Kaufmann Fan ostrich feathers with tortoise shell early 20th century
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Rose Gonzales Ancestor figure wood, paint and shell 20th century
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Sommer and Kaufmann Fan Chantilly lace and tortoise shell circa 1880 - 1900
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Sito Conte Beaded jewelry? from weaver's kit cotton and shell 1300 - 1400
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Robert Dighton Beaded container (old gun shell) beads late 19th century
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Ldamie Gourd calabash with cover coconut shell 19 - 20th century
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Dirk van Erp Oba head holder? cowrie shell and leather 20th century
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Ldamie Tattoo instrument tortoise shell and fiber 19th century
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Ldamie Tattoo instrument tortoise shell and fiber 19th century
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Ldamie Tattoo instrument tortoise shell and fiber 19th century
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Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky Comb Sea turtle shell 19th–early 20th century
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Pierre Louis Dagoty Shell handle plate (one of two - 1945.404-405) porcelain circa 1812
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Robert Dighton Lintel carving (pare) wood and shell late 19th century
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Nicolas Africano Initiation hair ornament Wood fiber, black palm wood, pigment early 20th century
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Sito Conte Peg? with face and inlaid eyes, from weaver's kit wood and shell? 1300 - 1400
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Varney Masalay Necklace string, cowrie shell, and plant material 20th century
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Ivy Emma Forbes Fan Emu feathers, tortoise shell, and silk cord late 19th century
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Anonymous Powder Box gold, wood and tortoise shell early 19th century
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Frances A. Atwell Fan with tassel peacock feathers, spangles, and tortoise shell circa 1890
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Mac Harshberger Untitled (putto standing on Christmas ornament) Woodcut circa 1938

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Nature of Islamic Ornament, Part IV: Figural Representation
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Armand Hammer Museum of Art: Secret Victorians
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Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center: Secret Victorians
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Indianapolis Museum of Art: What Does Love Have to Do with It - A look at love form the permentant collection
The exhibition includes works from across the globe such as Picasso's painting - MKa Jolie; an ancient earthenware jar which acts as a farewell gift from China; a Zulu neck ornament or love letters; 18th century European porcelain sculptures that...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Hair Stories
This exhibition encompasses mixed media work by Diane Katsiaficas, paintings by nancy Robinson, mixed media work and hand made paper by Erica Spitzer Rasmussen and a video installation by Mara Zoltners. Text and readings by Paulette Alden Bates,...
UCLA/Hammer Museum: Secret Victorians
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Art Gallery of Hamilton: Jade, The Ultimate Treasure of Ancient China
Bringing together over 120 individual pieces and sets of jade, the exhibition - presented by JNE Consulting Limited and Turkstra Lumber -- is a rare opportunity to experience firsthand the stone that has played such a central and revered role i...
Jewish Museum: Anni Albers
From the time she was a young student at the Bauhaus, she created wall hangings that stand on their own as abstract works of art, comparable in their boldness and modernis...
Columbia Museum of Art: Traditions in Elegance: Two Centuries of British Teapots from the Norwich Castle Museum
The collection chronicles the technical developments of ingenious potters who experimented with ornamental processes such as glazes that resemble metal and with the formulation of different types of clay to produce agate, jasper and tortoiseshell-...
Polish Cultural Institute, Location One: Dominik Lejman: Artist in Residence
In "Video Murals - Social Surfaces”, Lejman employs direct recordings of crowds and urban gatherings he has filmed. This original footage is then rendered into a purely abstracted form by the artist through the creation of ornamental crowd motifs ...
Rovaniemi Art Museum: Shelter: Kaija Kiuru's Installations
Kammio (Chamber 2002) is build from hand knitted lace and is extremely feminine and private shelter. In many cultures the value of women is measured by their skills in handcraft and only after girl has learnt these skills she enters in the worl...
Recursos de Santa Fe: Bead Expo Symposium: Sacred and Secular Uses of Beads
Friday: Facets of Collecting: Passion, Preservation, and Possession
• Gabrielle Liese, founder of the Bead Museum, how to build a bead collection.
• Robert Liu, editor of Ornament magazine, historical and ethical problems with collecti...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: The City of Sardis: Approaches in Graphic Recording
This exhibit is about the topographic landscape and historic architecture of Sardis, and their graphic recording since the middle of the eighteenth century. Architectural and topographical features of the site have attracted visitors for different...
Memphis Brooks Museum: US DESIGN, 1975-2000
Thomas Hine and Rosemarie Haag Bletter examined the cultural and theoretical issues that have shaped American design from 1975 to 2000. Other members, including David G. De Long in architecture, Miller in decorative and industrial design, and ...
Rosalux Gallery: Holiday Hoopla: A Celebration of the Season Featuring the Work of Amy Rice and Michael Sweere
Environmentally friendly artist Michael Sweere creates art that embodies the motto “reduce, recycle and reuse”. By day, Michael works as an art director in an advertising agency, but by night he turns to his passion for the fine arts. Taking the c...
Oakland Museum of California: Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch
The first exhibition to explore the full range of designs and techniques employed in Fisch’s innovative work, Elegant Fantasy: The Jewelry of Arline Fisch features jewelry and ...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Pictures in Private: British Portraiture in Domestic Spaces, 1680-1830
Rather than the narrative painting celebrated on the Continent, portraiture was the most popular genre of art in eighteenth-century Britain. Collectors displayed not only large-scale painted portraits, but also portrait prints, drawings, and m...
Yale School of Architecture Galleries: PSFS: Nothing More Modern
On October 1-2, there will be a reception and related symposium. The event will gather an international group of historians, architects, critics and theorists to examine how 1930's American Modernism reflecting distinctively American social and cu...
Haus der Kunst: simply droog: 10 + 1 years of avant-garde design from the Netherlands
The building’s perfect, cool and slick interior is in harmony with the meaning of the word droog, the quality of being practical and sober. On the other hand, a strong contrast exists vis-à-vis the ideal realization of these ideals, for droog also...
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
"Frank Lloyd Wright is such a giant figure in the story of 20th-century American culture, architecture and design," said Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "The museum is delighted to pr...
Power Plant: Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works
Since 1987, Kelley and McCarthy have collaborated on three major installations and five videos as well as producing two series of photographs, design of the Sod and Sodie Sock catalogue and a double CD of performances in Tokyo with Japanes...
Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea: Alighiero Boetti: Almost Everything
The exhibition, organized by the GAMeC together with Fondaciun PROA in Buenos Aires, is curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio - the Director of GAMeC - and Corrado Levi, combines over one hundred works by the artist, starting from 1962 with unpublis...
secession: WALTER OBHOLZER, ROZA EL-HASSAN
In his 1992 essay on the conceptual in Austrian contemporary art, Markus Brüderlin stated that not only had a genuine extension of Duchamp’s idea of art taken place in Vienna, but also that the idea of art as context had been processed on a formal...
Art 32 Basel: Art Fair Opens Today
The new, 700-page catalogue prepared in cooperation with the renowned Hatje Cantz publishing house appeared just a few days ago. This provides a richly illustrated preview of Art Basel and a comprehensive overview of all that the international a...
Kimbell Art Museum: Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art
Commented Dr. Timothy Potts, director of the Kimbell Art Museum, “The refurbishing of the V&A’s Islamic galleries has provided a unique opportunity to bring a broad selection of the museum’s most beautiful and important works to the United States,...

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