Meeting

Baluch

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Mae Festa: My First Forty Years of Collecting DeWitt Mallary is a longtime Hajji, noted rug scholar, and author of numerous papers and articles. His most recent article appeared in the Winter 2009 issue of HALI- Bahluli? – A Group of Symmetrically – […]

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Fez & Kilims

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Peter Bichler is President of the Austrian Society for Textile Art Research. He has executed various exhibitions, catalogues & lectures for The British Council, the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and ICOC. His lecture topic, Fez & Kilim will offer new insights

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Cochineal

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Elena Phipps was a conservator and textile conservator for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than thirty years. Her lecture will reprise her compelling article for the Met’s Winter 2010 Bulletin– Cochineal Red- The Art History of a Color

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Topkapi Textiles

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Paul Hepworth is an American paper and textile conservator, living in Istanbul, who holds an M.A. in Art History and Advanced Certificate in Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Most notably, Paul  conserved the Topkapi textiles for

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Turkish Rugs

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Stefano Ionescu is a Romanian well-known to most Hajjis for his guided Transylvanian rug tours and for Antique Ottoman Rugs In Transylvania, co-authored with Alberto Boralevi and Andrei Kertesz. His lecture topic is “Late Turkish rugs and their relation to the Transylvanian group.”

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Surprise Topic

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Michael Franses is one of the world’s leading textile and rug scholars. He is a co-founder of HALI and ICOC, as well as former owner of The Textile Gallery in London. Right now he plans a “surprise lecture topic” which will be of

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Re-opening of the Islamic Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York NY 10003 Navina Haidar is Associate Curator for the Met’s Department of Islamic Art. She has been working with the department’s new director, Sheila Canby, and a team of specialists who have initiated the renovation, expansion, and installation of the department’s new suite, which is

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