More recent to the collection are about 500 pieces of Latino art, including woven textiles and paintings. Contemporary Craft & Decorative Arts Decorative art covers the colonial period through the so-called Gilded Age and onto the present day. Highlights include a piano decorated by Thomas Wilmer ...
David Adjaye aims to dispel stereotypical images of Africa through textile designs NeoCon 2015:David Adjayehas created a range of African-inspired textiles forKnoll, in addition to curating a related exhibition at theCooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.More ...
Known as ‘G-dub’ or ‘GW,’ this university has been a bedrock of Washington identity since its founding in 1821. Besides shaping much of the American… 3.St Mary’s Episcopal Church 0.21MILES Built in 1887, St Mary’s was home to the first black Episcopal congregation in DC, which...
You can see everything from ancient Sasanian textiles to Henry VIII’s armor, from the oldest piano in existence to works by Dutch masters like Vermeer, from remarkable quilts out of Gee's Bend, Alabama to Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's classic portrait Washington Crossing the Delaware...
Below is another glimpse into the kind of papers that will be presented this coming Saturday May 7th atThe Annual Research Symposiumof the Fashion and Textiles: History, Theory, Museum Practice Program at FIT’s School of Graduate Studies. ...
Last week, Microsoft AI for Culture Heritage initiative collaborated with The Museum of Art & Photography in Bangalore, India, to launch INTERWOVEN, an AI-based platform technology to find previously unknown links, common themes and shared history between South Asian textiles and textile-related art...
Dermestid beetles are serious pests of museum collections in tropical countries. They infest dry preserved specimens of mammals, birds, insects, ethnographic materials containing hair, fur, feathers, and animal skin, as well as woollen textiles and carpets. Several species of dermesti...
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Posted inAsian art,Freer Gallery of Art,Japan,Sackler Museum,Washington DC|TaggedAsia,Asian Art,Celebrations,Chinese New Year,Lunar New Year|Leave a comment Make time for the Empresses of China Posted onMarch 30, 2019bytcwells14 “The only person the Emperor would bow to is his mother,” ...
These works make the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum one of the finest art museums in America. Decorative Arts In addition to its collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum also owns a wide range of decorative artworks, including: textiles, ceramics, rare...