Franquet doesn't create her tapestries from scratch; the artist builds upon her own cultural history as she reworks found tapestries with her own embroidered imagery and text.
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Related: Erotic Tapestries Put a New Spin on Nude Self-Shots Two Sides of a Tapestry: Two Sides of Yourself Kiki Smith's Massive Electronically-Woven Tapestries Touch Down in Santa Fe
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Beard did grant an interview in which she acknowledged that the tapestries could be authentic—she says she did so to give tapestries, which are largely overlooked today, some badly-needed publicity.
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I was completely captivated by the tapestries at eye level.
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Seeing the tapestries in place, I finally understood their purpose.
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Smith recently debuted her collection of amazingly vibrant electronically-woven tapestries.
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Family Art Project: Freedom Poem Tapestries (Saturday and Sunday) The Rev.
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And yet both Deutschland seasons are tapestries more than anything else.
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Society6: Up to 40% off tapestries, phone cases, comforters, and more
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To create the Vestigial Data tapestries, Stearns used computerized Jacquard looms.
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It was inspired by five of the museum's 16th-century tapestries.
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The resulting tapestries of media and association quickly become overwhelming spectacles.
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Billowy tapestries and rattan rugs add to the bohemian-den feeling.
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Humans today are mosaics, our genomes rich tapestries of interwoven ancestries.
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The adinkra motifs are considered a precursor to his majestic tapestries.
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The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome is a contemplative exhibition that winds through the grand and intimate spaces of the Manhattan cathedral, where the tapestries mingle with the church's tomb effigies and stained glass.
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Raphael didn't live long enough to see the tapestries in situ, but for one week last month, the Vatican exhibited all ten tapestries in the Sistine Chapel, as part of the Vatican Museums' homage to the artist.
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"The tapestries each represent a hero during the Holocaust," Stein tells us.
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According to Liz's research, she outfitted the venue with parlors and tapestries.
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She brought her tapestries to a class she teaches for nonscience majors.
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The tapestries also absorb sound and soften the experience of the space.
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Small traditional embroidered tapestries face a TV playing videos from Burmese MTV.
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But two of the 12 Barberini tapestries were in very bad shape.
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Phillip Stearns creates pillows, tapestries, and other cozy objects from computational processes.
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Willams' tapestries aren't cheap; they sell for around $400 to $500 (or more).
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BitterSuite's Tapestries show will open to the public in London in May 2017.
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It's like: Pots that look like pots, tapestries that hang on the walls.
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She uses tapestries — the graphic novels of the Middle Ages — for recounted stories.
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The Medici crest features prominently in the woven frames of the tapestries' scenes.
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She also points to three oversized tapestries, based on cloaks worn by priests.
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While in 2009 the tapestries of the "Crucifixion" and "Agony in the Garden" were lifted into the north and south transept arches for the Easter season, the first display since the 1889 fire, The Barberini Tapestries is a rare experience.
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The Nationalmuseum acquired four tapestries designed by the painter Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–99).
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Society6 has tapestries in a wide range of prints including photographs, paintings, and typography.
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Vibrant orange, gold, and fuchsia tapestries decorated the outside of a family's attap house.
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"My friend Matt, who I lived with in Far Rockaway, does tapestries," he recalled.
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People, Places and Things Lush tapestries from Loewe, modern bungalows in Portugal — and more.
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Seven of the tapestries are on permanent display the Met Cloisters in New York.
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Sources include Chinese art, Vuillard, want ads, the Bayeux tapestries, folk art and kitsch.
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The tapestries had been made for Louis XIV's minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
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The conservators went inch by inch — and the tapestries are nearly 16 feet tall.
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Four other tapestries had been hanging across the sanctuary from where the fire raged.
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Now, almost 16 years later, the conservation treatment of the 10 tapestries is done.
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Zapata's massive, prismatic tapestries negotiate her Peruvian heritage with an interest in feminist theory.
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Cape Town's Blank Projects has brought Igshaan Adams, whose tapestries are luscious but restrained.
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The 17th-century weaver's marks are still present at the bottom of the tapestries.
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Tapestries hand-sewn from scraps of fabric cover the floors of these structures, where they sometimes join drawings by the artist's daughter; other tapestries hang from the gallery's walls, in one case incorporating sketches of garments for RUN, Ms. Cianciolo's idiosyncratic fashion line.
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Mullany showcased sprawling tapestries from the early 16th century depicting fabled countrysides and hunting scenes.
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Garish signs gleamed from every building, one over the other in tapestries of contrasting calligraphy.
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The horned horses also appear in tapestries and designs of historic buildings across the country.
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I find the tapestries ugly, but that may be a part of the artist's intent.
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The décor takes inspiration from Venetian lace, the city's trademark terrazzo floors, tapestries and architecture.
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On the walls are ornately abstract wallpapers and tapestries that Richter created for the occasion.
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The tapestries were some of Raphael's final works before his death at 37 in 1520.
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Taking inspiration from the dazzling tapestries that Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Lise Gujer made together, as well as the darkly strange narrative tapestries of Swedish artist Hannah Ryggen, Forrer creates figures with mask-like expressions and cartoonish features in a popping range of colors.
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Billie Zangewa represents the Cape Town gallery, furnishing its emerald-green booth with delicate silk tapestries.
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Cars and shoes are black, blending with street tapestries of charcoal, Goya brown, and dark currant.
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Sometimes I hang my canvases like tapestries, just like the one that you can see behind.
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Her finished works are stretched so they become canvas-like, mimicking tapestries or traditional hung paintings.
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I like having no furniture — just tapestries and pillows — on the floor of my home studio.
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Clouds tear across tapestries of green fields and create a ripple effect of sun and shadow.
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Like all of Ms. Ryggen's tapestries, it was created directly on the loom without preparatory sketches.
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Just before construction on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine started in 1892, the donation of the tapestries was arranged by the Reverand Morgan Dix and Bishop Henry Codman Potter, whose tomb effigy is appropriately situated in front of the exhibited tapestries in the chapel.
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CL: Wasn't one of Louise's earliest jobs as a child filling in drawings on tapestries being repaired?
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As a child, Louise was asked to draw in missing imagery from the torn and damaged tapestries.
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It offers great platinum care products, rainbow highlights, and our favorite trend come festival season: hair tapestries.
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His studio in Rome is a trove of exotica: feathers, masks, shotguns, ornamental rugs, pillows and tapestries.
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The lyrical story begins with Bourgeois's early life in a family that restored tapestries for a living.
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The artist is presenting over 20 unique tapestries for reMembering, her ongoing exhibition at London's October Gallery.
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I stripped the tapestries and old paintings off the walls, painted everything white, and showed contemporary works.
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The dining room is understated, with a few puppets and framed kalaga (embroidered tapestries) on the walls.
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Raphael's tapestries were on view from February 17–23 at the Sistine Chapel (Vatican Museums, Vatican City).
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Luckily, the remaining six Barberini tapestries from the set of 12 were already in the conservation laboratory.
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Aristocratic households preferred to display their wealth by bringing out their best tapestries, jewels, and gold platters.
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Don't believe those tapestries of pretty lords and ladies happily hunting unicorns: The Middle Ages were murder.
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The designs were meant to be reminiscent of tapestries and carpets, and included deep burgundies, greens and metallics.
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The embassy in Conakry, Guinea, has no idea what has happened to five tapestries placed in its care.
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Equally enthralling is his art: In addition to paintings and sculpture, he designed textiles, tiles, jewelry and tapestries.
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They had opposed certain aspects of the design, including the size and scope of the structure's metal tapestries.
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On the inside, there are tapestries, lots of gold, an office, bedroom, and full gym for the president.
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Hailing from the Gulf Coast of the United States, I understood how public piers attract tapestries of people.
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The most ambitious of these is a group of six related tapestries entitled The Vanity of Small Differences.
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Christina Forrer's tapestries, however, convey more idiosyncratic scenes, portraying weirdos, loners, and monsters with both pathos and humor.
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It's hard to experience these tapestries in documentation; it really is a very physical experience to view them.
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In the past, I have created tapestries with hidden images woven in phosphorescent thread visible only at night.
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As King notes, they were once covered up to make room for a temporary exhibition of Flemish tapestries.
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He started by weaving glass into tapestries but, eventually, the weaving part, once his primary technique, fell away.
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On the internet, you can buy all kinds of fan art featuring Bickle, from handmade posters to wall tapestries.
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The sites allow users to upload an image and have it printed on clothing, pillows, tapestries and other items.
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Nothing, however, has stopped them from embroidering, with their exuberant visions adorning bedspreads, tapestries, cushions, clothing and even earrings.
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Rather, they show social realist tapestries, poetry about the environment, and frieze-like compositions of black and white photos.
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Tapestries evoking Dionysian revelries hung on the walls of homes, often, appropriately, in spaces for sumptuous dining and entertaining.
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Always conscious of "taste," Perry has designed these tapestries in a way that challenges the viewer on several levels.
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In the bedrooms, Leenaert's tapestries are thrown casually over the beds, and her canvases are stacked against the wall.
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The pocket squares with whimsical patterns, like hockey players ($85), and the scarves luxe and colorful, like portable tapestries.
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She takes "the pulse of the land" and learns about plants specific to locales, weaving harmonious tapestries of colors.
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Seven of the tapestries, commissioned by Pope Leo X, were hung in the chapel on St. Stephen's day, Dec.
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Since the fire, specialists in the cathedral's textile conservation laboratory have worked to refresh and reanimate the Barberini tapestries.
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The tapestries were originally erected as placeholders as Michelangelo completed his work on the Sistine Chapel from 1512-1536.
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This fall's trip to the West Coast is only the latest stop in the journey of the Barberini tapestries.
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In the Met, Byzantine mosaics, medieval sculptures, paintings and tapestries become works of art, detached from their original sacred sites.
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Geffrard's texturally rich, bombastic tapestries are influenced by his Haitian roots, and draw on the history of Voudou veve flags.
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Inside, the building was brightly decorated with contemporary tapestries made by a local weaving studio established by Laing in 1970.
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Flemish artist Sylvie Franquet is attuning herself with her own cultural roots, employing tapestries as her artistic medium of choice.
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The centerpiece of the show is a series of six tapestries woven circa 2225 called La Dame à la Licorne.
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This is a history of stuff as much as people, especially in the early years: food, jewels, robes, tapestries, renovations.
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I grew up having tapestries or objects [around his house], and not really understanding the significance or implications of that.
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In fact, in the hierarchy of artistic materials, textiles (with the exception of tapestries) have often occupied a lowly rank.
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To Ms. Ridgway, the curator, the political backdrop against which Ryggen wove her tapestries suggests painful parallels with the present.
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The references turn explicit in the third gallery, with tapestries showing text from interviews and 911 calls about domestic violence.
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A dual personality results: The resemblance to tapestries is slightly archaic; the anarchic, abstract profusion seems completely of the moment.
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These gardens are as richly worked as embroidered tapestries, festooned with formal terraces, hedges, pools and all manner of statuary.
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"With its furnishing, not including the tapestries and works of art, Ca' d'Zan cost Uncle John $1,650,000," reported Ringling North.
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Picture a piece by artist El Anatsui, whose shimmering chainmail-like tapestries are painstakingly stitched together out of bottle caps.
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Christina Forrer's colorful and gripping tapestries, currently on view at the Swiss Institute, focus on the awkward physicality of aggression.
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Videos and photographs from the synagogue taken before the war show a main hall of arches lined with seats and tapestries.
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Nico Mazza's hand-stitches tapestries focus on the role of cultural and religious backgrounds in the shaping of her personal feminism.
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Still, she shrugged off the Nazi threat, displaying her anti-fascist tapestries on a clothesline outside her house during the occupation.
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The rapper wore an elaborately-bejeweled Moschino by Jeremy Scott ensemble that was inspired by tapestries and embroideries from ecclesiastic vestment.
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Some rooms were lined with leather, others had hand-painted wallpaper or tapestries made in French workshops by nimble-fingered Huguenots.
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Her mother, who restored antique tapestries in the family business in Paris, represented an ideal of care and protectiveness to Louise.
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Society6:In honor of Labor Day, this online retailer is offering 753% off new wall hangings, tapestries, posters, duvets, and comforters.
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Her three-dimensional works look a bit like disassembled looms, with colorful fibers stretching between vertically-hung woven panels resembling tapestries.
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Booths lined the opposite wall, which was covered in medieval tapestries depicting epic battles, fabulous monsters, and scenes of royal grandeur.
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In the early 1900s American philanthropists vied for Renaissance tapestries, seeking to add touches of aristocratic taste to new museum galleries.
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The rugs, resembling vivid abstract tapestries, meshed perfectly with the emergence of avant-garde interiors done by the likes of Frank.
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"The best results are comedic tapestries full of interconnected characters and sharp satire," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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The second largest body of work in the show consists of narrative tapestries that are outspoken indictments of British bourgeois society.
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As we arrived, his mother and aunt were spending a rainy morning under their high-stilted house, weaving intricate cotton tapestries.
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Unholy ghosts, his current solo show at Various Small Fires, offers a more robust presentation of his evocative and poignant tapestries.
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It — it's enormous high ceilings, chandelier in every single room, beautiful tapestries in this enormous, like, banquet hall sort of space.
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Furniture, tapestries, paintings, textiles, coat hangers and even membership cards were produced by craftsmen in northern Italy to Depero's precise specifications.
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In 2017, Dr. Guertin was inspired to crochet temperature tapestries to share with her students after seeing a quilt on Twitter.
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It sleeps 12, comes with access to the lake by boat, and it's decorated with tapestries of ancient kings and knights.
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For years the Barberini tapestries, as they are known, had hung 18913 feet above the transepts in the cathedral's main sanctuary.
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Since then, they are usually displayed for scant hours at a time because of the age and state of the tapestries.
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The Mortlake workshop established in 5003 created the stunning tapestries after Raphael, which were among the most valuable of his possessions.
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The tapestries were not designed to be static objects, but rather art that was lived with, wherever their owner may be.
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The exhibition will feature "nearly 40 tapestries and embroidered paintings, as well as drawings, photographs, and primary documents," according to the museum.
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Hang up necessities like bath towels, robes, umbrellas, and keys, as well as decor items like string lights, picture frames, and tapestries.
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They gesture to tapestries of narrative that exist "off-screen," so to speak; they unsettle and gesture to bigger worlds without cohering.
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The tapestries that cover the walls of the Queen's bedroom seem to hold the blue English daylight coming in from the windows.
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She imported stone from Genoa, Italy, and 16th-century Flemish tapestries that she protected by drawing the drapes in the brightest hours.
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The 29,000-square-foot store was lined with tapestries, wood shelves and a "rare wine room" stocked with trophy Bordeaux and Burgundies.
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Yeah, you get the fun stuff like tapestries and string lights, but you can't forget about the microwave and trash can necessities.
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The controversy had centered on certain aspects of the design, including the size and scope of the structure's large-scale metal tapestries.
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During the Renaissance, Raphael and Bernaert van Orley worked on elaborate tapestries depicting Christian scenes with the exquisite, lifelike detail of paintings.
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It also includes spaces for locals to sell their handicrafts, like knit hats or traditional woven tapestries made from local alpaca hair.
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It means that clothes, for all their seeming functionality, fragility and disposability, can be more like medieval tapestries: mysterious, legible and enduring.
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Mr. Barontini screenprints him into collage-like tapestries; Mr. Fearon, remarkably well-cast, lends him emotions and affect in Mr. Julien's film.
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For cushions, tapestries first are washed gently, then dried outdoors or in the atelier and carefully steamed, which revives their original colors.
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Lunches with the minister are at least three courses with wine, served by gloved footmen in gilt-paneled chambers hung with tapestries.
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Pope Leo X first commissioned the tapestries and saw the first placement of seven of them when they were revealed in 1519.
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Using her own nude selfies, fan-submitted images, and internet porn, Riley has created a series of tapestries that redefine the artform completely.
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But the Chinese giants are taking a different tack, buying stakes in local firms and weaving them together into complex tapestries of services.
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Spread the word Of course, that's exactly what someone who just found a priceless set of Henry VII tapestries would say, isn't it?
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She planted an herb garden and in early 1962 traveled to Mexico to purchase authentic furniture, art, and tapestries for her new home.
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The products we rely on—whether for food, fuel, communication—are woven together in supply chains that have the complexity of medieval tapestries.
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They made me think about my own home and how I have tapestries on the floor in a way that resembles my exhibitions.
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"The sticker choices were driven by visual sumptuousness and what worked on the iPhone medium rather than by the tapestries' symbolism," he said.
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His pen and ink drawings resemble Buddhist tapestries in their layouts, with concentric circles representing the interconnected worlds that exist in his imagination.
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But the paintings are scanned copies or pastiche — even HBO money doesn't run to real Gauguins — and the tapestries are not exactly priceless.
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Past works have included tapestries from Senegal and Togo and ribbon embroidery from India that were reimagined as patterned blankets and tote bags.
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Surrounded by ice-blue stalactite sculptures and tapestries, regulars, travelers, and fellow artists immerse themselves in visual publications, seeking escape, inspiration, or both.
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The collection is made up of thousands of paintings, tapestries, pieces of furniture, photographs, and other objects, spread out between numerous royal residences.
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This show includes not only Albers's tapestries, gouaches, screenprints and drapery material from the 1920s to the 1980s, but also an entire loom.
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Medieval rulers packed their favorite tapestries and took them along when they traveled, and as the dean of the cathedral, the Very Rev.
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After a catastrophic 21889 fire, the 218th-century Barberini tapestries have returned to view at Manhattan's Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.
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On the museum's interior walls — and barely discernible — are small paintings based on the "Unicorn Tapestries" on display at The Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.
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Ireland: Falconry's rich history throughout the British Isles is well-documented in paintings, tapestries, and the public imagination (King Arthur, knights and all that).
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You'll notice other sophisticated design elements such as twinkling lights hanging from the ceiling, as well as chic art and tapestries framing the walls.
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Starting on Thursday, officials at the museum activated an emergency flood-protection plan established in 2002, prioritizing the most fragile artworks, such as tapestries.
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The piece was inspired by six medieval tapestries, "The Lady and the Unicorn," exploring the five senses, as well as a mysterious sixth one.
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Based on the historic tradition of European narrative tapestries, these are massive in size — the largest measures 49 feet long by 10 feet high.
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The Singapore-based artist spends hours on her projects, which turn the contents of the average Top Ramen cup into impressive, scarf-like tapestries.
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RENAISSANCE SPLENDOR: CATHERINE DE' MEDICI'S VALOIS TAPESTRIES The intricately woven splendor of the 16th-century French court lands in North America. Nov. 253-Jan.
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In 1922, the Rockefeller family purchased six of the tapestries and hung them at their property until they donated them the Cloisters in 1938.
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Step 3: Find Your Creative Space Consecrate a private area as your vision board creation zone by lighting candles, burning incense and hanging tapestries.
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Burle Marx painted on canvas, wove tapestries, and crafted jewelry, but he is inscribed in Brazil's history as the country's most influential landscape designer.
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Throughout the halls, ballrooms, and lobbies I spotted intricate details such as frescos, murals, tapestries, sculptures, and carvings, which cultivated a sense of luxury.
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The garb complemented the restaurant's verdant rose garden, the pleasantly burbling fountain, and the private gazebo in which we sat, surrounded by paisley tapestries.
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The digital portal is hosted by the University of Oregon, whose Jordan Schnitzer Museum will open an exhibition on the tapestries this September 23.
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The multi-media project uses video, sculptures, performance, and ten colorful collaged tapestries to tell the stories of women who saved lives during the tragedy.
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Ryggen's massive allegorical tapestries attest to the artist's strong condemnation of violence as the world burned through World War II, and later, the Vietnam War.
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" Debris lay on the floor, he said, adding that the framed tapestries on the walls were "completely covered in dust and tiny chunks of concrete.
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The draft resolution adds rugs or tapestries worth more than $500 and porcelain or bone china tableware valued at more than $100 to the list.
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Williams makes stunning hand-dyed tapestries and I started following last year when I became obsessed with not just the finished work, but her process.
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Kendrick Lamar uses his albums to weave complex narrative tapestries, ones in which every word and note is working in service of a larger whole.
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Over the course of ten tracks, U-zhaan's dextrous hand-drumming weaves melodically through Hasunuma's florid electro-tapestries, making vibrant quiltworks out of minimal pieces.
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That way they can plan to move tapestries and precious paintings to safety in a flood, or raise electrics above expected flood levels, for example.
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This new exhibition, at Mier Gallery in Los Angeles, will also feature new tapestries inspired by Borland's iconic Queen Elizabeth II woven portrait from 2001.
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Borland is currently at work on another set of tapestries for an upcoming show in Australia, which will open this November at Murray White Room.
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These songs, known as icaros, are then used in healing ceremonies, and eventually translated into geometric patterns in order to adorn tapestries with their messages.
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Even when her subjects are dwarfed by their tapestries, their furniture, their throw pillows, their sweeping vistas, there is never any ambiguity about the relationship.
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New overtakes old in furniture, jewelry, ironwork, bead-encrusted evening gowns and opera capes, tapestries and lacquered folding screens, silver tea services and cigarette cases.
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Another striking aspect is the high percentage of gold and silver thread; the surface of the tapestries glitters with the subtle movement of the cloth.
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Later in the sixteenth century the popes decided to display the tapestries only on special festival days, and then put them in the Vatican Museums.
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The tapestries — made out of silk, wool, and gold and silver thread — have been restored over the past decade by conservationists at the Vatican Museum.
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The carpets look digitally rendered, as if a cheeky developer plugged data points emulating ancient tapestries into a software program and then scrambled the results.
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The series had been acquired by Elizabeth U. Coles through collector Charles M. Ffoulke, who had bought the tapestries from the Princess Barberini in 1889.
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Mahama amasses these sacks via basic trade economy, then employs laborers to help him assemble them into massive tapestries that are tailored to his installation spaces.
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Society6 Tapestries, starting at $31.49Dorm room walls can be dull, but you can easily cover them and add some intrigue to your room with a tapestry.
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Small tapestries in cotton, linen, and synthetic threads, by the Russian Zhenya Machneva, depict obsolete factories, abandoned heroic statuary, and other remnants of lost Soviet grandeur.
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Five hundred years ago, wealthy homeowners would have announced their taste and economic resources with wood panelling or tapestries on their walls, rather than with paint.
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Swirling chaotically across the tapestries, animals with wildly exaggerated features are shown alongside mythical creatures called khurus, which include hunchback dragons and griffin-like bird-things.
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In 226-21955, he found his way back into art via a series of homemade quilt-style tapestries, mostly due to the scarcity of artistic materials.
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The one catch: a concern that tapestries could be seen as old-fashioned, and possibly even elitist, associated as they are with European history and palaces.
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Inside the 323th century manor, its walls hung with neo-Gothic tapestries and old masters-style paintings, a low mechanical buzz fills the workshop's ground floor.
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Matisse had a lifelong appreciation of fine tapestries, which began during his student days at École Quentin De La Tour, a textile designing school near Belgium.
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In the absence of a Gerhard Richter abstract painting, Christie's offered one of his large-scale abstract tapestries from an edition of eight created in 2009.
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The theater was a largely dark brown box when we arrived, but we learned that it had originally been decorated with reproductions of tapestries by Boucher.
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The talented designer somehow weaves patterns and prints that have no business going together into stunning, playful tapestries that fill the space with sophistication and whimsy.
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The tapestries have since been bought back by Galerie Chevalier, and were in its booth at the biennale, priced at €2187 million, or about $153 million.
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Those who would like to be makers themselves can go to this Manhattan museum's Fine Arts Studio for activities like building butterflies and weaving tiny tapestries.
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His tapestries and objects woven together signify that the current postcolonial and post-industrial moment cannot be understood without taking a critical look at the past.
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But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for large ensembles, interpolating bebop's crosshatched rhythms and extended improvisations into lush tapestries.
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One of the tapestries in the Paul series lost its lower half, which has since been replaced with slightly faded colors, based on the original drawing.
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Previous exhibitions, some of which lasted only a few hours or a day, included only the 10 larger tapestries, some measuring about six by five meters.
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The fire made them more intent on doing so, and the tapestries will go on display Tuesday, but not in their former places above the transepts.
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The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque Rome continues through June 25 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (1047 Amsterdam Avenue, Morningside Heights, Manhattan).
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Her newest collection of works, Minoan Girls, consists of thirteen new pieces and three large tapestries, and is now display at Santa Monica's Shoshana Wayne Gallery.
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But whereas Ryggen's tapestries tended to address specific historical or humanitarian calamities, the disturbing sights causing Forrer's figures to gawk, guffaw, and get hostile are unknown.
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The architect's original vision for the memorial wanted to put more of a focus on the former president's childhood in Abilene, Kansas and incorporate additional metal tapestries.
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Jamele Wright's big, gorgeous tapestries of fabric, repeated patterns — a reference to the mingling of identities, recycling, even in hip-hop — and red dirt from the earth.
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It was cluttered with carvings, mannequins, paintings, artwork, scraps of wood, pianos, furniture, tapestries and at least one recreational vehicle trailer, which were kindling for the fire.
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One can only imagine how this show would have been enriched by her tapestries, not just by her inclusion in Albers's photographs as an occasional, ghostly presence.
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Velvet love seats lit from above by stained glass windows serve as restful reading nooks, while suits of armor guard hallways lined with antiques and heavy tapestries.
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The tapestries are the first thing you see when you walk into the show, referencing the artist's Lebanese heritage and adding yet another dimension to her work.
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Tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, woodblock prints, and early photographs provide us with 1,000 years of visual astronomy conducted by people who probably never thought of themselves as astronomers.
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While preparing the ballet, Balanchine took Suzanne Farrell (the original "Diamonds" ballerina) to see the medieval "Lady and Unicorn" tapestries at the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
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Before reaching it, visitors pass through the encyclopedic collection of decorative pieces from Art Nouveau tapestries to postmodern sofas that crowd the walls and floors, salon-style.
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Finally, the opera's libretto offers a fresh, contemporary perspective on each of the five tapestries, calling attention to details and themes in direct and oftentimes comedic ways.
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She has a knack for, and a long history of, illustrating complex rhythms with witty, fluid gestures and compelling pedestrian patterns to create layered tapestries of bodies.
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The artist Roberto Burle Marx painted on canvas, wove tapestries, and crafted jewelry, but he is inscribed in Brazil's history as the country's most influential landscape designer.
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The tapestries are made out of silk, wool, and gold and silver thread, which have been restored over the past decade by conservationists at the Vatican Museum.
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On view are 10 of the 12 Life of Christ monumental tapestries, chronicling the birth, life, and death of Jesus Christ in newly clean wool and silk.
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It's clad in maximalist patterns —animal print rugs, Marimekko-esque upholstery, wood-paneled walls, crocheted tapestries — that echo the New Jersey home in which Thomas grew up.
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Take a deep dive into the paintings, poetry, tapestries and more of Etel Adnan, who has been called one of the most influential artists of the 21st century.
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It boasts 153th century Flemish tapestries, lavish oriental rugs and a Louis XIV-style ballroom added by Trump that includes $7 million in gold leaf on the walls.
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The company promised to "faithfully reproduce" several beloved artifacts in the lobby, including wall tapestries, paper lanterns and sliding doors, the lacquered furnishings and map of time zones.
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Mary spent the next 19 years of her life under a kind of fancy house arrest (rest assured, Mary still requested table silver and tapestries for her bedrooms).
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For example: All my stoner friends at the University of Rochester (way back in 2008) had Bob Marley posters and tapestries that pleasantly billowed in the slightest breeze.
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As a diligent student of archival conversations and political debate, artist Goshka Macuga constructs a new collection of tapestries that reimagine pivotal meetings between history's biggest power players.
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Today, the company has branched out to numerous areas – tops, bottoms, wraps, bags, scarves, items for the home like pillows and tapestries, pocket squares, bags, jewelry, and more.
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" Stafford went on, "You have all these people weaving these incredible tapestries of wires in order to create this huge magnetic collider, in which what happens is invisible.
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While the palace is known for its tapestries, old master paintings, antiques and furniture, the North Portico tells the story of one of the building's more eccentric inhabitants.
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The intricacy of Granduciel's songwriting and production—the way his urgent, interior searching yields strange tapestries—isn't immediate in the way, say, a punk-rock song can be.
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Over the last five years, renowned visual artist Kiki Smith has designed a collection of 11, ten-foot high, electronically woven tapestries for a solo exhibition, Woven Tales.
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Leo X commissioned those tapestries to decorate the walls of the Sistine Chapel, his contribution to the already renowned decorative program of the space where popes are elected.
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COMMON THREADS: WEAVING STORIES ACROSS TIME Elaine Reichek, William Kentridge, El Anatsui and other contemporary artists, working more or less strictly in tapestries and textiles. Oct. 143-Jan.
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He had held the position for the past eight years, prior to which he was a tapestries curator in the museum's department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.
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The materials in this show — ceramics, paintings, punching bags, beaded tapestries, wearable garments, narrative video, cloaks, masks, and figurines — are geographically eclectic, from China, India, African and elsewhere.
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Court documents said Mr. Almena collected "fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs" and other "ramshackle pieces" that served as the kindling for the fire.
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And the quiet stone refuge, simply adorned with tapestries that predate the building, and stained glass that postdate it, provides just the atmosphere to take it all in.
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Her apartment is decked with gilded wallpaper and faded tapestries of picnicking European ladies, and when she steps outside she sighs that she no longer recognizes the city.
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The Vatican was sacked in 1527-28 by troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the high gold content of the tapestries made them tempting loot.
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Records are scarce, but the curator of the exhibition, Alessandra Rodolfo, estimates that the last time all tapestries were displayed as a set was in the late 1500s.
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The show dissects our ideas of symbolism and communication, translating ancient modes of literally weaving stories into tapestries with the ways we present ideas in the digital age.
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Their organization, the Wyoming Art Party, helped arm the caravan from Laramie not simply with Sharpied posterboard signs, but robust political tapestries, flags emblazoned with slogans, and sequined uteruses.
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The space opened out to Polish Magdalena Abakanowicz's gigantic, sisal fiber tapestries that defy the conventions of pictorial, folklore depictions, instead unfurling into textured surfaces resonant of female genitalia.
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All of this is juxtaposed against two exquisite tapestries, woven by Nkanga into a kind of collage that draws together the biological, geographic, and human considerations of the kolaberry.
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Artefacts such as illuminated manuscripts and tapestries are adorned with unicorns, dragons, antelopes with forked tails, blemmyes—humanoids with no heads, their faces instead on their chests—and more.
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These nonconventional building materials included recycled dry wood, such as fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs, wooden furniture, RV trailers, rugs, and other ramshackle pieces.
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His booth at the Showplace Antique & Design Center in Manhattan is filled with statues, paintings and tapestries that represent dancers with twirling scarves, skimpy beaded tops and gauzy skirts.
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The tapestries he created under Leo X made his classical, canonical style celebrated across the world, said Sylvia Ferino Pagden, the art historian who led the exhibition's scientific committee.
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On the floors and walls, Reaves's curvy shelf-like sculptures and Stone's rugs-as-tapestries are displayed as functional design objects, highlighting the actual domestic character of the gallery.
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And I have a similar response to Lisa Alvarado's combination of acrylic paint and fabric based on Mexican textiles, which look like very intricate tapestries hung from wood poles.
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The Winter Antiques Show has increasingly been a reflection of those changes, with art included in the fair in addition to the furniture, decorative arts, tapestries and other artifacts.
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During the festival, Soviet-era vehicles dot the steppe, with local vendors selling tapestries depicting Kazakh life, leather-bound books with Mongolian sayings and intricate bottles for Mongolian snuff.
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Sunil Abraham, a quantitative researcher from Brooklyn, has found a way to contemporize the medieval tapestries and introduce them into the digital realm by turning them into iMessage stickers.
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While the earliest works date back to the middle of the 20th century, a majority of them were made after 2000, and range from sculptures to videos to tapestries.
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A new exhibit showcases contemporary takes on the millennia-old art of textile-making, from El Anatsui's shimmering bottle-cap tapestries to Nevet Yitzhak's renditions of Afghan war rugs.
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The French nuance refers to shade, or a slight difference of tone; it came into common usage as a reference to the blending of colors in 17th-century tapestries.
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The tapestries were the last part of the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, on the lowest register, hung directly below the strip of frescoes just under the chapel's windows.
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Tawney became well known in the 1960s for her experiments with open-warp tapestries, which freed loom weaving from rectangular formats, allowing for layers, insertions, and free-ranging threads.
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Adjaye is offering items he's designed including a concrete speaker — in red, naturally — and Gates has contributed one of a series of tapestries made from strips of used fire hose.
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Related: Kiki Smith's Massive, Electronically-Woven Tapestries Touch Down In Santa Fe Old School Video Games Inspire Layered Glass Artworks Spend Your 4/20 At This Custom Glass Art Show
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With tapestries and a massive sculpture stitched together from large plastic bags used to carry valuables across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border, Halter makes a statement about nature of migration.
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Among the 2,500 objects it illustrates are packaged soap, album covers, typewriters, maps, clocks, lingerie, tapestries and sports equipment, with recurring images of eager factory workers and bountiful collective farms.
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Related: Weaving Sexts: Tapestry Artist Threads an Honest Portrait of Female Sexuality Woven Aluminum Tapestries Anchor a Legendary Ghanian Artist's Retrospective New Digital Gallery Offers a 'Stimulation Overload' For All
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Here's her take on the Times interview, from her blog: As I recall, I gave the story much as above, and responded negatively to some wilder speculations about the tapestries.
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Related: Go Behind the Scenes of the Met's Costume Institute Punk Portraits Prove Political Leaders Look Better in Pink Kiki Smith's Massive, Electronically-Woven Tapestries Touch Down in Santa Fe
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What works best is how intimate an experience Tapestries becomes, where your "handler" strokes, nudges, and pirouettes you through a piece of classical music that could otherwise be pretty inaccessible.
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The typically immersive feel sees sculpture by Dorothea Tanning sit cheek-by-jowl with Anni Albers tapestries and jewelry, West African textiles and photography by Malick Sidibé and Irving Penn.
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She established herself in the 1970s as a weaver of large minimalist textiles, and one of her tapestries from 2005 hangs in the Norwegian National Parliament's press room in Oslo.
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More sporadically, the artist also adds designs and embroidered illustrations to the tapestries, often employing imagery that makes the previously sewn narratives more ambiguous or pointed towards entirely new directions.
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He opened the bar to anyone who could find it, began to schedule candlelit jazz performances and decorated the walls with silver Heineken and Southern Comfort plaques and calligraphic tapestries.
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The cavernous room is filled with fantastically lovely hanging tapestries, spectacularly-colored brass pieces that look like the armature of vases, and wooden sculptures shaped like boxes and low tables.
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The Gothic tapestries, which are believed to have been made in Paris around 1618, portray noblemen, hunters, and their hounds hunting and killing the magical creature against a pastoral setting.
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Nearby, Diedrick Brackens's colorful tapestries at Various Small Fires, which has galleries in Los Angeles and Seoul, South Korea, join traditional materials with references to figures like African-American cowboys.
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Thanks to the compositional scheme, as well as to light, textured brushwork that doesn't seem to interfere with zoological accuracy, his surfaces often have the complexity and frontality of tapestries.
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Add in tapestries, marble statues, illuminated manuscripts and paintings by fellow Flemings such as Petrus Christus and Italian contemporaries like Fra Angelico, and you have a blockbuster of celestial proportions.
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An inventory of 1518 shows that Leo X bought 47 tapestries for the chapel, so the way they were arranged most likely varied according to the religious festival being celebrated.
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Plus, Schurer Merckoll has added favorite pieces from beyond Morocco, including clothing from the Paris-based line CristaSeya and tapestries by the up-and-coming French textile designer Louis Barthélemy.
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Windsor Court is unlike any hotel I've stayed in the Crescent City with its English charm, French Italian marble floors, pale pink roses, plush pastel furniture, British paintings, and tapestries.
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The 16-minute film consists largely of tracking shots through the Salon Doré, a blinged-out cousin of the Oval Office, with its chandeliers, clocks, candelabras, tapestries and gilded everything.
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Since approximately 300 BC, tapestries have been revered for their places on walls around the world, but their ancient history and ability to last for centuries doesn't intimidate Erin M. Riley.
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"When I think of Tapestry the first thing that comes to mind is my college dorm room, where I hung tapestries," said Ariana Moshref, a 23-year-old in San Francisco.
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Observing the tapestries from below, we fix our eyes on the machine-made objects like we may gaze upon stained glass windows in a cathedral, searching for knowledge in enigmatic faces.
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Related tapestries and fragments are in a range of collections; the Metropolitan Museum of Art owns a few, and one was sold for $78,000 in 2007 at Sotheby's in New York.
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There was a heavy presence of Gucci in the visual album as well, because the Gucci tapestries all kind of lent themselves to this Victorian, antebellum, reformation vibe we were in.
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For Vestigial Data, he presents three tapestries woven on a Jacquard loom using algorithmic processes, with each acting as both storage units and transmitters of data lost in a computer crash.
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ONCE UPON A TAPESTRY: WOVEN TALES OF HELEN AND DIDO Paris' lover and Aeneas' foil lend their drama to tapestries and full-size color cartoons from Flemish and Italian workshops. Dec.
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David B. Smith creates photo collages that are woven on a Digital Jacquard loom into tapestries, which he then cuts up apart and reconfigures as otherworldly stuffed sculptures (curator: Jessica Hodin).
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At the heart of Tamara Gonzales's new body of work at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is a room of tapestries woven by artisans in the Peruvian towns of Písac and Ayacucho.
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When he finished, he hung the casts from the hall's ceiling like two enormous tapestries — honey-colored and translucent, glowing like amber in the light coming through Westminster's tall, arched windows.
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CreditCreditLaetitia Vancon for The New York Times MUNICH — I find it so hard to describe them: as vast, undulant tapestries, each one rippling and fluttering like a flag by the seashore?
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In a gallery whose walls were covered almost entirely with hanging tapestries — the space was once a royal weaving workshop — Lanvin presented a mixed-gender collection that focused heavily on outerwear.
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To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance artist Raphael, a number of his designed tapestries will return to the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
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To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance artist Raphael, a number of his designed tapestries will return to the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
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Her massive allegorical tapestries, now on view at Modern Art Oxford, attest to the artist's strong condemnation of violence as the world burned through World War II, and later, the Vietnam War.
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Abstract tapestries by Dutch-Brazilian NYC resident Rafaël Rozendaal, who popularized the website as an art medium, hang near the Berlin-based Cécile B. Evans' self-referential video artwork, and many more.
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Its Corinthian columns have elephant motifs carved into their wooden pediments; the color scheme is drawn from the Royal Thai costume, but the tapestries and artworks are all by contemporary local artists.
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Tapestries and rugs are on view at Keshishian, including one from the 1960s — formerly installed at a university in Tbilisi, Georgia — that features a psychedelic composition with sinuous sea nymphs and dolphins.
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Under his DJ Corpmane alias, he draws on a wide spectrum of global sounds—Midwestern bop, experimental dancehall, Chinese pop, and beyond—stitching them together into paper-thin tapestries of hypnotic beauty.
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The not-yet titled piece, destined to measure 5.6 feet by 8403 feet, was the first in a series of eight woven tapestries he was preparing for a solo show in Stockholm.
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For example, the copper and chrome jingles that show up in the garments and tapestries were once made from the lids of tobacco cans, but now come to the artist from Taiwan.
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Black kale, an allusion to medieval tapestries and William Morris prints, might be the backdrop for fluorescent pink dahlias, a nod to the cultivars that populated the jardins ouvriers of postwar France.
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Perriand was bold and unconventional with the rooms she brought to life, hanging paintings by Léger, photographing fish bones as art and using cartoonish drawings by children as the basis for tapestries.
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Also, for the first time since the Renaissance, Raphael's tapestries are reunited at the Sistine Chapel, artist Felicity Hammond denounces the Dutch art fair Unseen for not paying its artists, and more.
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Then-Pope Leo X (born Giovanni de' Medici) commissioned a series of designs for tapestries from the artist who was already decorating the papal apartment, Raffaello Sanzio, known to many as Raphael.
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While we do not know how the tapestries were originally arranged, the present display positions Peter on the left-hand side, under Moses, and Paul on the right-hand side, under Jesus.
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At the cathedral, The Barberini Tapestries encourages a recollection of this past meaning, along with an appreciation for the inch-by-inch conservation work that has preserved them for the 21st century.
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A former major-college football player, he helped produce those gloriously rich tapestries of athleticism; the long, slow spirals set against azure skies; the leaping, twisting grabs by receivers; and the thunderous hits.
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In the past year, the museum's publications and shows have focused on the institution's tapestries, Sèvres porcelain and Limoges enamels; the staff has produced a handbook on the decorative arts collection over all.
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She makes this (the sweaters for drones) and many other things, such as tapestries of Pluto, tricycle-based pop-up shops, cloud storage systems that are actually physical objects, customized avocados, and signs.
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There are a number of African artists who work with recycled art, I think of [Ghanaian sculptor] El Anatsui and how he reclaims bottle caps and transforms them into these large, beautiful tapestries.
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"I'd like it to be about medium, the media that I'm mixing from ballet to vogueing, and the collage of soundtracks" — plus the video projections and the tapestries he made for the event.
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Eight comics have each been given a full show — roughly a half-hour each — to do whatever they want, and the best results are comedic tapestries full of interconnected characters and sharp satire.
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It took place in the historic grounds of Luton Hoo, a posh hotel that has tapestries on the walls and fat old blokes sat on lovely chairs talking quietly about evil, no doubt.
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He conceived a heaven: columns of Carrara marble; chandeliers of Murano glass; 36,000 hand-painted roof tiles from Alsace; parquet floors of walnut, oak and Norwegian maple; tapestries from the looms of Flanders.
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If you think about how French wallpaper historically took over from tapestries, ["in Pursuit"] becomes a piece that references the evolution of technology and materials, going back to the 16th and 17th century.
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Be it Faith Ringgold's narrative quilts, Mona Hatoum's visceral "Hair Necklace" and "Stream" (hair stitched into toilet paper), or Grayson Perry's provocative and often political tapestries, there is much tactile work to discover.
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Because cochineal was the source of a more intense and lasting red than any of the pigments then available, demand soared for it as a dye for sumptuous European silks, velvets and tapestries.
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The 17th- to 19th-century tapestries that he uses were made by prestige names, including the Aubusson factory in France and Flemish manufacturers, and come from a variety of dealers and secondhand sales.
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It did not seem like it limited that film in any way, especially because these days many TV sets are nearing the size of medieval tapestries and occupy whole walls of family rooms.
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In the early 235th century, men like William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper publisher, and Raymond Pitcairn, heir to a glass company fortune, built castles to house their collections of medieval art and tapestries.
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This rare exhibition will only last for a week, closing on February 23, before a number of the tapestries will travel on to other museums around the world in celebration of their creator.
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After 213 years of conservation, the 221-225 Life of Christ tapestries by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli that crown the art collection of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine have returned to view.
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After a tour of the winery's cellar, guests are encouraged to walk through the museum as the tasting is prepared and pay close attention to the textiles hung from the walls like tapestries.
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One, called The Fluidity of Gender, consists of larger-than-life gender-bending sculptures and archival ink prints; another called Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females—Tapestries and Sculpture features ten female heroes during the Holocaust.
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Guillermo Bert, inspired by the graphic similarities between modern QR codes and indigenous craftwork from regions in Latin America, collaborates with Mayan, Mapuche, and Acoma weavers to create tapestries that tell these communities' stories.
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From the Times: [Wilkes] gave the lobster's body to Jenny Bovey, a local artist and owner of Blue Water Fish Rubbings, who uses dead sea creatures to make prints for clothing, accessories and tapestries.
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The six-track EP is due out June 16 on Don Giovanni, and takes a hard left away from the abrasive, destructive Afrofuturist noise tapestries we've come to expect from Moor Mother's Camae Ayewa.
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He created mural-size decorative wall coverings from ceramic tiles; wall reliefs carved in wood and stone; and immense wool tapestries, one of which takes up an entire wall in this exhibition's main gallery.
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In the early 1960s, he established the underground galleries at Kykuit that now house a stunning collection, including works by Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Robert Motherwell, along with a series of Picasso tapestries.
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Arthur Bispo do Rosário's tapestries and garments, constructed from discarded clothing and junk in preparation for Judgment Day, are the products of five decades of residency in a psychiatric hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
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Inside a place of worship there are often flammable tapestries lining stone walls, and plenty of polished wood interior decorative surfaces, and sometimes a ceiling coated with centuries of burning votive candle wax residue.
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The opening, three centuries after the apartments' inauguration to celebrate the marriage of the Electoral Prince Friedrich August and the Archduchess Maria Josepha, follows a $38 million reconstruction involving handmade tapestries and ceiling paintings.
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Exquisitely rendered panoramas of the North American woods push its pristine vistas and fleeing wildlife to the brink of Magical Realism, evoke rich tapestries and, in their way, make the case for environmental wisdom.
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Reaching beyond her signature half-moon print, the designer offered clothes that were both futuristic and folk: Nordic Fair Isle sweaters, draped knits inspired by Bedouin tapestries, sharply cut suits in plaids and houndstooth.
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France's gilded political culture of immunity and privilege — free train and plane tickets, first-class travel, chauffeurs, all in a setting of marble and tapestries — can no longer be taken for granted, analysts warn.
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With smoke still hanging in the upper reaches of the cathedral and firefighters sloshing through ankle-deep puddles, officials found that one of the largest of the tapestries, "The Last Supper," had been damaged.
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The tapestries, from 113 and 1985, were shipped to the Scassa tapestry factory in northwestern Italy for emergency restoration by soaking them in limestone-purified water infused with natural herbs and rinsing every hour.
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During the course of his career, Conner made more discrete bodies of work across more mediums than any other postwar artist: paintings, drawings, assemblages, films, photographs, photograms, performances, collages, tapestries, artist's books, and prints.
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The centerpiece is a set of monumental tapestries, laid flat on the floor like carpets, their embroidered surfaces sparkling with sequins and dense with sewn-on objects which partially obscure images of urban murder victims.
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The centerpiece is a set of monumental tapestries, laid flat on the floor like carpets, their embroidered surfaces sparkling with sequins and dense with sewn-on objects that partially obscure images of urban murder victims.
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"Here I don't have to imagine what it would be like to sleep in a tower bedroom, or to eat in a formal dining room, to be surrounded by tapestries, sculptures, and chandeliers," said Kenner.
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To flush out the theme, Dash event planning decked the event with colorful tapestries, teepees, paisley-patterned pillows and desert backdrops that perfectly encompassed the relaxed and cool vibe of the Indio, California-based festival.
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Created by Amanda Zuckerman, who serves as the company's Creative Director, and her mother, Karen, in 2012, Dormify is a mostly-digital one-stop shop for highly stylized rugs, lighting, tapestries, wall art, and bedding.
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The spirit of Omega is likewise evident in the Marrakesh studio and store of the Belgian-born designer Laurence Leenaert, 30, whose four-year-old Lrnce line includes tapestries, tagines, clothing, rugs and small objects.
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ART AND NATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Plants and animals depicted in religious and secular ways appear in manuscripts, stained glass and tapestries in this show organized by the Musée de Cluny in Paris. Dec.
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Front Burner Images of produce from the garden and the market in this coloring book by Jessie Kanelos Weiner are as intricate as French tapestries, presenting an artistic challenge for adult and accomplished child alike.
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For Burne-Jones's current exhibition at the Tate Britain, curator Alison Smith does an admirable job of tracing that development, and the artist's range — his oeuvre included painting, stained glass, tapestries, illustrations — is well demonstrated.
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Rozendaal, who uses the plugin every day and keeps an archive of his favorite screenshots, sifted through his collection and selected six compositions to turn into Jacquard woven tapestries, each nearly 5 x 9 feet.
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Athi-Patra Ruga, at the Cape Town-based Gallery WHATIFTHEWORLD (P3), is exhibiting tapestries that pay tribute to François "Feral" Benga, a Senegalese dancer who performed at the Folies-Bergère in Paris in the 1920s.
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For the first time in centuries, all 12 tapestries designed by Raphael have been hung on the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel as part of celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.
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The contrast between the tapir's impastoed gray-black fur and the painting's flat green background is jarring, as are four red rectangles, marked with pre-Columbian-style figures, that could represent windows, frescoes or tapestries.
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Off the Shelf: Modern & Contemporary Artists' Books continues through June 25; Timeless Weft: Ancient Tapestries and the Art of Louise B. Wheatley continues through July 30; and Front Room: Adam Pendleton continues through October 1.
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Her multi-part installation, "In Pursuit of Bling," (2014-2016) occupies a large section of the floor in the MCA's biggest gallery with tapestries, a light box, minerals, video, and other elements making up the whole.
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In this show, she presented three connected bodies of work and each was fully developed and sophisticated in their own way — my favorites were the stylized tapestries made by artisans in Peru based on Gonzales's designs.
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"I had wanted to make woven versions of my own art for awhile, and Mike has a house full of rad old tapestries, so we'd talked about that idea before," Morris explains to The Creators Project.
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Fast forward a millennia or two, and somehow unicorns evolved from icons of chastity and purity embroidered on 15th century tapestries to the sparkly-eyed, pastel-hued toys that dominated the "girls" aisle in the 1980s.
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The pure white stone appears to let light through like the Japanese paper of her notebooks, but the screens seem a little heavy, failing to complement the works on paper as the tapestries do the paintings.
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He used the threads of unraveled socks and a sewing needle borrowed from a guard to stitch tiny tapestries — most measured two and a half by three inches and contained around 1,200 stitches per square inch.
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The red silk wall tapestries for the state apartments' opulent audience chamber were re-created in Lyon, France, where they were originally purchased, while green silk velvet for the state bedroom was produced in Genoa, Italy.
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Trude Guermonprez's woven sculpture presents two intersecting flat tapestries that form an X. It's hung just a few feet from Kay Sekimachi's ethereal weaving of nylon monofilament, pillowy in its shape, never meant to lie flat.
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They range from giants like the Tata Group, a conglomerate that hawks its Titan watch line on the site, to smaller firms like The Boho Street, a peddler of vegan tapestries, incense and handcrafted copper mugs.
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Led by the classically trained songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone, the eight-piece band San Fermin creates dazzling orchestral tapestries; the guitarist Mark Dancigers explores similarly gorgeous terrain with his pop-informed classical quintet, the NOW Ensemble.
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Throughout the tapestries and works on paper, figures appear dismembered and limbless, perhaps industrialized as tools of production and environmental exploitation themselves, but also bloodied and handicapped by the fracturing of the earth on which they stand.
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Along with Fluxus (Hansen's grandfather was artist Al Hansen, a member of the Fluxus movement), the artist also cites many other artists who have worked with yarn and tapestries as inspirations and influences for his knitted pieces.
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Grill's spare text is harrowing enough, but it's even more emotionally elevated by his colored pencil drawings, which he has said were inspired by the scenery of New Mexico as well as Native American tapestries and rugs.
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In his homily, read with tapestries of images of the seven new saints hanging from St. Peter's Basilica behind him, Francis called Pope Paul "a prophet of an extroverted Church" who opened it up to the world.
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The court documents filed by the district attorney's office on Monday said Mr. Almena collected "fence boards, shingles, window frames, wooden sculptures, tapestries, pianos, organs" and other "ramshackle pieces" that served as the kindling for the fire.
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The original artworks, chosen by the building's first owner, the theater director and producer Winthrop Ames, were fabric installations intended to look like tapestries by François Boucher; the new artwork recollects them, but in a novel fashion.
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While the tapestry workshop can still produce hand-loomed carpets sized for a palace throne room or a full cycle of Goya's hunting scene tapestries, they also do collaborations with contemporary artists scaled for more modest homes.
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This summer, she opened an eclectic shop in the village with clothing and home goods from near and far, like soap from the local Buck Brook Alpacas farm and New Orleans artist Chris Roberts-Antieaus's framed tapestries.
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Usually a selection of Raphael's tapestries are kept behind glass in a gloomy hall in the Vatican Picture Gallery, which made the recent display a rare opportunity to see them as they were intended to be seen.
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Concealed inside the winery's monastery-chic cellars is something like the drinking-man's Louvre, full of Ming porcelain cups, harvest-themed tapestries from the Middle Ages and still-lifes by artists like Juan Gris and Georges Rouault.
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El Anatsui's Five Decades tracked the work of the prolific sculptor who also won the highest honor at The 2015 Venice Biennale, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (Read: Woven Aluminum Tapestries Anchor a Legendary Ghanaian Artist's Retrospective).
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Anyway, what appear is this article in the Times (to see it all, you need to subscribe) , and the BBC Radio news has an item on how Mary Beard has found one of Henry VIII's lost tapestries. Aggghh.
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Interiors, created by New York firm David Rockwell, have Japanese flair with tatami-like tapestries in the lobby, brushstroke-patterned carpeting running through hallways, and minimalist rooms with warm wood floors and furnishings and subtle, Japanese-inspired artwork.
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For our first meeting, she wanted to see the medieval art at the Cloisters, a short trip north of her apartment in Manhattan, but we both agreed that the day was too warm to spend among dusty tapestries.
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The works on offer will include wallpaper by Joan Nelson, William Wegman, and Roy Lichtenstein, tapestries by Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, and Chuck Close, furniture by Richard Tuttle and Sol LeWitt and a divergent array of the unexpected.
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In "Renty Henry," the warped and distressed images, transposed onto heavily worked tapestries, link Gates and Renty over a shared moment and with a satisfied mutual defiance at odds with the poses that they were forced to strike.
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For these tapestries, hung in a circle from the ceiling near the center of the room, well-known Douglas images (including the above-mentioned woman with a spear) are reworked to speak to a different and expanded demographic.
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I just finished a very complex and emotionally demanding project, consisting of a series of tapestries and wall hangings accompanied by a manifesto that praises and cries the principles, desires, and failures of a (not-so) utopian political dream.
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The collection, her largest yet—some tapestries are as large as 8' x 8'—depicts important and traumatic moments from Riley's personal life and deals with the artist's battle with trichotillomania, a compulsion for pulling out one's own hair.
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Its latest Conscious Exclusive collection is inspired by the creative home of 19th/20th century Swedish artists Karin and Carl Larsson, a cottage with beautiful tapestries and paintings that the retailer interpreted into sustainably-made womenswear, shoes, and accessories.
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But it seems that she also cautioned against the angle the papers have run with, which is "Mary Beard is our Indiana Jones"—she is much more skeptical of the authenticity of the tapestries than either account what suggest.
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The tapestries will remain — they had already been reduced from three sides to one — and will now include a representation of the D-Day landing sites in Normandy, France, as they appear today, instead of the hills of Kansas.
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Although her practice involves a certain degree of appropriation, the artist is particularly selective when it comes to finding her raw material, generally looking for tapestries adapting canonical art masterpieces, with a predilection for those that depict nude females.
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One suite explores looped and threaded forms that tangle like hair, harking back both to the artist's parents' work repairing tapestries, and to her own fascination with garments (and the history of use and repair they carry with them).
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"I'm usually unmoved by still visual art, but the longer you stare at the tapestries, the more beautiful and grotesque you realize they are, and I wanted to send these beautiful and grotesque images to my friends," he said.
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What, after all, is the entire arc of history but a compendium of things — the pottery, cloaks, jewelry, houses, furniture, vessels and tapestries that humankind has always made (and will always make) to assert its presence in the world?
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Sialelli also offered up several prints, among them a range of plaids and, perhaps in a homage to the show's venue, a black-and-gold leaf motif that recalled the kinds of botanical patterns often seen in Renaissance tapestries.
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Sometimes personally: Mr. Dundas, who left his post as creative director of Roberto Cavalli in October, held the debut of his namesake brand in a friend's private home, built in the 17th century and filled with tapestries and antiques.
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The tapestries, which were weaved in Brussels by the famed studio of Pieter van Aelst from Raphael's sketches, depict scenes from the Acts of the Apostles, such as The Stoning of St. Stephen and St. Paul Preaching in Athens.
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The Americans were led through winding passages to an ornate chamber near Parolin's office: a lofty, dimly lit room with heavy tapestries and dark-red curtains, where a long table was surrounded by paintings of past Popes and cardinals.
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"This is displaying them, not just returning them to where they were, but doing something different that's historically accurate and more visually exciting," said Dr. Harper, an expert on the Barberini tapestries, who curated the exhibition with Ms. Eidelheit.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads George Seurat was influenced by the color theories of Michel Eugène Chevreul, a French chemist who restored tapestries, and of Charles Blanc, who cites Chevreul in his book, Grammaire des arts du dessin (1867).
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The main missing cache, they say, contained torahs written on gazelle leather as well as tapestries and chandeliers, and was given to a militia by a local council for safekeeping when rebels surrendered the neighborhood to government forces earlier this year.
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Just past where Young and an assistant are filling the "YOUR MOM" balloons is a solo presentation of works by the Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru, whose materials evoke the metal tapestries of El Anatsui, though the aesthetic is distinctly Afrofuturist.
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To say the least, it's shocking to imagine the same inexpensive, minimalist pieces we have in our homes mixed in among the historical tapestries, elaborate ornamental vases, and Victorian fainting couches we can only assume are all over Kensington Palace.
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The works on display include a couple dozen flat tapestries, as well as coats and robes that would have once been worn by both men and women as symbols of wealth and status in the oasis cities of Bukhara and Samarkand.
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The reflections on the sacrifices made 100 years ago had begun for the royal trio earlier in the day when they viewed the two 30-yard-long tapestries depicting the battle, and met British and French schoolchildren at the visitor's center.
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" The church reupholstered the seats, whitewashed the plum-colored tapestries in the recessed wall arches and — as the senior pastor said — "we hired a Greek painter who painted over all the naked ladies in the ceiling and turned them into angels.
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The exhibition, playfully titled My Pretty Little Art Career, consists of an unprecedented collection of Perry's drawings, photographs, sculpture, clothing, and tapestries, and of course the spectacular, subversive ceramics that brought Perry fame, controversy, and the Turner Prize in 2003.
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The tapestries remain — they had already been reduced from three sides to one — but will include a more international scene, a representation of the D-Day landing sites in Normandy, France, as they appear today, instead of the hills of Kansas.
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He explored minimalism alongside composers such as Terry Riley, Philip Glass and Steve Reich — weaving shimmering, textured tapestries out of the pulsating repetition of small elements — but later found it confining and tried to incorporate it into a broader language.
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Gerhard Richter has made cheap Rorschach wallpaper and a couple decent tapestries to complement a choral piece by composer Steve Reich whose sonorous heights are sucked dry by the poor acoustics of the vacuous gallery space during the press preview.
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Burle Marx, Brazil's greatest landscape designer, hasn't lacked for institutional attention lately; just three years ago the Jewish Museum presented a retrospective of his paintings, tapestries, jewelry and designs for green spaces and public thoroughfares in Rio, Brasília, and even Miami.
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The street's West Side Bazaar, a popular lunch and shopping spot, is filled with vendors who sell hand-woven tapestries and beaded jewelry, while the smell of Ethiopian spices and Malaysian ramen from its food court wafts through the room.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Magical, enigmatic, and otherworldly are some the words most commonly used when describing the Unicorn Tapestries, which have remained a source of never-ending fascination since they were crafted in the late Middle Ages.
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That exhibition, presented by Artangel, opened in 2016, just after the Brexit referendum passed, and not surprisingly it provoked some Britons to interpret the latex tapestries, with their odor and hints of flaying, as a metaphor for national martyrdom and decay.
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"Eastern Christians" has been billed as the largest exhibition anywhere devoted to the religion in the Middle East, and among its paintings, manuscripts, tapestries, mosaics, ivories and liturgical vestments are several critical loans from Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Visit the famed chateau outside Paris and you'll have to maneuver through crowds of fellow tourists; here at the Met, a different obstacle stands between you and the gilded furniture, ornate tapestries, and embroidered suits and gowns of France's ancien régime.
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Mr. Smith approaches the canvas with deadpan seriousness though, using traditional methods and likening his practice to European medieval manuscripts like the Unicorn Tapestries (1495-1505) at the Cloisters, Edward Hicks's folk painting "Peaceable Kingdom" (1846), or Hieronymous Bosch's epic allegories.
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And they're smart for their astute avoidance of paint and canvas; the thin, semitransparent, declarative modesty of their materials; and an eccentric, impure modernity that equally evokes the paintings of Josef Albers and the tapestries of his wife, Anni Albers.
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One is the Swedish-born Norwegian weaver Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970), whose monumental tapestries, drawing on Picasso's deformed figures and steeped with feminist and anti-fascist conviction, come to life in this newly translated biography, illustrated in color throughout. (Ms.
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Hanging 10 monumental 17th-century tapestries edge to edge, at more or less eye level — as conservators did last week in chapels at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine — amounted to a repudiation of a distressing, dark day.
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Canon Patrick Malloy, the priest who oversees arts-related projects at the cathedral, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, said the idea was to recreate a Baroque chapel and show the tapestries differently from when they hung over the transepts.
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And inspired by Callas to create a scenography of sorts, he also commissioned his artisans to craft an array of tapestries and luminous wall-hangings to enrich the impression that visitors to the exhibition are entering the diva's personal quarters.
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Though curator Andrew Bolton describes navigating through it a "pilgrimage," few may even journey to the Cloisters to see the entire show, and those at the Cloisters may be confused at the presence of a gothic McQueen concoction amidst medieval tapestries.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Digital complexity is turned into the comforts of home in this new series by artist Phillip Stearns, which offers up for sale pillows, tapestries, and other cozy objects woven from textiles that reflect computational processes.
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As often as they came to appear together posthumously — in the memorial drawings, photographs, tapestries, and crockery, usually in triptychs with John F. Kennedy, found largely in black homes — there are few photographs of the two, most of them snapshots or group pictures.
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De Scudéry described its "good grace" and "beauty," Flemish animal painter Pieter Boel sketched its elegant form, and it was depicted in royal tapestries, all before achieving the posthumous fate of most menagerie animals: dissection at the new Royal Academy of Sciences.
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In the case of North Korea, the U.N. defines luxury goods as: Jewellery and precious stones, yachts, luxury cars, racing cars, luxury watches, snowmobiles, jet skis, recreational sports equipment, tableware worth more than $100 and rugs or tapestries worth more than $500.
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Kiki Smith, Spinners, 2014, cotton jacquard tapestry, 113 x 75 inches, edition of 10, images courtesy Peters Projects "Textile art" conjures up images of royal Ottoman tents, or the excessive reign of Louis XIV, but the world of tapestries still thrives today.
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While a widely respected scholar of European tapestries, he was tasked by the Met's board with greatly increasing the museum's involvement with modern and contemporary art — which interested Mr. de Montebello not at all — and with expanding its audience and its digital presence.
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One of those tapestries, "The Sacrifice at Lystra," is on loan from the Vatican, next to a high resolution digital facsimile of the cartoon, or preparatory drawing, of the scene which is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Like Mr. Binion, Mr. Edwards has welcomed the new income, which allowed him to buy a second home, in Senegal, and the freedom to experiment there with tapestries, which he hopes to show in his fall exhibition at the Alexander Gray gallery.
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Also, hobo tapestries mixed up with navy tailoring; bias scarf dresses flashing a circle of hip at the side, right where a bag might hang (the bags themselves, by the way, crafty and cool, were very good), and an army-prairie palette.
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The heartbreaking works of Karen Kilimnik recast the icons of consumerism and popular culture — from Kate Moss to drowsy dogs — as strangely deformed things: For a show last year at New York's 303 Gallery, she stuck cat stickers onto reproductions of baroque tapestries.
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But Mr. Chung is also compelling as a solo artist, and his material, including the intoxicating 2015 album "Fated," shows off his ability to weave diverse sonic ideas (woozy beats, sped-up vocal samples, glitchy synthesizers) into sublime and strange sonic tapestries.
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The Vatican Museums' conservationists and restorers allowed all 12 of the delicate tapestries to be put on show at the same time for only a week, in part to protect them and in part because some will be on loan to other museums.
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She let her mind dwell on the quiet vestibules, hung with Oriental tapestries, lighted by tall lamps of bronze, and on the two tall footmen in knee breeches who dozed in the large armchairs, made drowsy by the heat of the furnace.
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The beautiful building, assembled from fragments of Romanesque and Gothic architecture that were shipped over from Europe in the mid-twentieth century, draws crowds as much for its own recumbent glory as for its exceptional collection of medieval art, tapestries, and manuscripts.
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This focus takes form as a ring of galleries on the border of the two piers, and features work ranging from plastic bag tapestries and line drawings that evoke Picasso, to men and women infected with circuit boards and Afrofuturist masks reclaimed from garbage.
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Cardi B made a grand entrance alongside Moschino designer Jeremy Scott (in a matching getup!) wearing a jeweled crown with spindles, and a gown with a high collar, long-sleeves and gloves all covered in intricate beading inspired by tapestries and embroideries from ecclesiastic vestments.
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Four repurpose the seductive hues and open gestures of Color Field Painting, whether in the beautiful ceramic bowls of Beth Kaminstein, the painted hooked-rug tapestries of Liv Aanrud, the quasi-abstract still lifes of Daniel Herr or the vaguely Symbolist pastels of Paul Metrinko.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Visit the famed chateau outside Paris and you'll have to maneuver through crowds of fellow tourists; here at the Met, a different obstacle stands between you and the gilded furniture, ornate tapestries, and embroidered suits and gowns of France's ancien régime.
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Nearby, Ayo Jackson, a recent M.F.A. grad, was pinning cotton puffs into the background of her piece, while a mirrored version of her, with a braided unicorn horn, twirled above; it was inspired by the medieval Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters in northern Manhattan.
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A Word With LONDON — The artist and media personality Grayson Perry has made himself a household name in Britain by sculpting flamboyant engraved pots, stitching bold tapestries that grapple with modern social issues, and dressing, for some public appearances, as his female alter ego, Claire.
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For Phish tailgaters American Beauty, a three-story beer bar and performance hall near Madison Square Garden, is hosting an all-day, all-night "Jerry Lounge," featuring live music, vendors selling tapestries and other knickknacks, food and lots of opportunities to hang with other Phans.
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This past week, for a few precious days and for the first time since the late 1500s, the tapestries went back on view in the Sistine Chapel, as part of the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael, one of the Renaissance's great masters.
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"It's a kind of triumphant return," said James G. Harper, who wrote the text of a new full-color book about the tapestries, which were part of a set of 12 commissioned in 1643 by Cardinal Francesco Barberini, a nephew of Pope Urban VIII.
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He spent fourteen years as the curator of European tapestries and textiles in the Met's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, where he organized the critically admired exhibitions "Tapestry in the Renaissance" and "Tapestry in the Baroque," and was known as Tapestry Tom.
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It's been 20 years since Third Eye Blind released its self-titled debut album, and the band is celebrating by giving us a time-warp to every alternative kid's bedroom in 1997—complete with one of those Mandala wall tapestries and a half-eaten pizza.
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OAF newcomer Jacqueline Bishop of Antillean, will show work by the Jamaicans Sane Mae "Mama Laine" Dunkley, who makes richly textured mats and tapestries, and Kemel Leeford Rankine, whose enamel-on-sheet-metal signs record local proverbs and parables, and depict Jamaica's national heroes.
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The fact that said performances utilize the widest variety of sound design on any of their albums—rocking out with jagged guitars in one song then spinning tapestries of piano and whirring electronics the next—only adds to Thief's madcap, Brothers Grimm-inspired atmosphere.
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His show at the Wellin showcases his breadth and depth of making, with larger-than-life-size sewn tunics (decorated with what he likes to call "powwow regalia"), extravagantly decorated masks, ceramic pots, paintings made of exquisitely patterned thread, capes, tapestries, and figures — even a short video.
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Ever since his 1999 discovery of a bag full of metal seals from African liquor bottles, Anatsui has continually worked on wall assemblages made of bottle caps, crushing the found elements into circles or cutting them into strips, subsequently sewing the parts together to form monumental tapestries.
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To tell the story of flight attendant Gina (Lindsay Burdge) as she fixates on a one-night stand in Paris, Williams draws inspiration from 1970s European art films and cinéma du look to weave tapestries of color that both beckon and repel viewers in following Gina's descent.
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Average nightly hotel rate: $94.92Average nightly Airbnb rate: $161.73Savings: $66.81Book the Hotel Olimpia Venice for $76 per nightWith plenty of gold trim, statement wall paper, and rich tapestries, this is exactly the kind of Venetian palace I'd hope to stay in when visiting the floating city.
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Among those who made their ways through rooms lined with tapestries and swords at this Milanese unveiling of the new Esquire man were Diego Della Valle, of Tod's; David Lauren, of Ralph Lauren; Thom Browne and Brunello Cucinelli, of their namesake brands; and Remo Ruffini, of Moncler.
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You may have been "doing it wrong" before, like all those other plebes who don't know to weave their BLT bacon into little bacon tapestries (bacon in every bite!) or cut their cakes (all the way across, apparently) or use their cheese graters horizontally (good tip
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This was a far cry from September 220, when Melinda Gates, the philanthropist and wife of the Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, was wowed at the Paris event by a set of four 218th-century Gobelins gold-thread tapestries in the booth of the Paris dealer Galerie Chevalier.
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It's difficult to know exactly who did what, but her hand, she pointed out, is evident in the female figure above the fireplace, which merges with the floral patterns around it, and could be spotted in tapestries, stained glass windows, and fabric embroideries throughout the house.
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"I love the idea of telling a story with a piece of furniture," says Mabille, who was inspired by a chestnut velvet sofa inlaid with a patchwork of tapestries designed by the architect Pierre Chareau for the historic 1930s Paris townhouse known as the Maison de Verre.
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The movement and complexity of Raphael's designs are clearly influenced by Michelangelo's work on the ceiling, but the tapestries have a more direct relationship with the figures in the register immediately above them, both seeming to share the same scale even though Raphael's figures are larger.
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The crests of the Medici pope figure prominently in what remains of the border tapestries, and a multitude of other stories is told in gold and silver thread at the bases, as if in relief, while along the vertical sides figures represent the hours and seasons.
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And she does so by considering an enthralling range of hitherto untapped material: fantastic costumes designed by the 1970s queer theater troupe, the Cockettes; hand-sewn tapestries produced by Chilean artists depicting torture under the Pinochet regime; and the still-growing NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
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It is based on the series of fifteenth-century tapestries known as "The Lady and the Unicorn," in which a woman of high station is seen in the company of a unicorn, a lion, a monkey, and other creatures, in allegorical depictions of the five senses.
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A timeline of their travels from 1650 to the present included in the exhibition has stops at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome where Cardinal Barberini regularly loaned the tapestries, and the palatial Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane in Rome, which was the headquarters of the family.
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Earlier in the evening, Cardi B made her grand entrance at the Met Gala alongside Moschino designer Jeremy Scott wearing a jeweled crown with spindles, and a gown with a high collar, long-sleeves and gloves all covered in intricate beading inspired by tapestries and embroideries from ecclesiastic vestments.
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Earlier in the evening, Cardi B made her grand entrance at the Met Gala alongside Moschino designer Jeremy Scott wearing a jeweled crown with spindles, and a gown with a high collar, long sleeves and gloves all covered in intricate beading inspired by tapestries and embroideries from ecclesiastic vestments.
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Braiding together senses, moods, and impressions, Shapiro designs exquisite sensual tapestries of ideas and notions, where text and textures are welded to one another: "the haiku from your hair" conjures both the force of lyrical comparison and the weight of its thingness – a haiku resides in the hair.
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There's a little bit of African wax print fabric here and there, a lot of Indian mandala tapestries throughout the campsite, and some questionable box braids among the Burner contingent hanging around the festival's fridges, but so far I haven't seen anything that's made me roll my eyes.
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Bijoux d'artistes also provocatively pairs this art-jewelry treasury with sculptures, weavings, paintings, photographs, tapestries, and ceramics, which poses a vociferous problem: Bijoux d'artistes is undeniably a pleasurable experience to take in, but it is also troubling, as it blurs the intellectual line shielding art from decadent trivialization.
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A painting of a leopard leaping onto a deer from the Armory Show has the animals moving with the fluid forms of Matisse figures, but the setting, with its detailed foliage, seems right out of the Middle Ages tapestries Chanler studied at the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
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On a private visit to the Vatican Gallery of Tapestries, the Cadet designers Raul Arevalo and Brad Schmidt got the notion of building a show of shorts-suits with deep elasticized waistlines and tunic-like shirts with either zippered or pinned shoulder closures on the garb of Roman centurions.
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What was once largely a formal and philosophical exercise has now become a means of examining the world with a closer eye, a way to love, fear, or float above the concerns of daily life, by recording its sounds and rearranging them into tapestries both terrifying and beautiful.
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The first records of the castle begin in 1163, but the structure is a palimpsest of a near-millennium of architectural trends: The worn limestone of the Renaissance-style stairway dates from 1577 and the bedrooms, with their Flemish tapestries and four-poster beds, from the late 18th century.
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The Unicorn Stickers, available for free download on the Apple App Store, feature humorous cutouts from the tapestries including a "Smirking Lord," a "Snarling Hound," and the famous "Unicorn in Captivity," in which the bleeding creature is seen chained to a tree and entrapped inside a fenced ring.
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VATICAN CITY — On the day after Christmas in 1519, during the feast of St Stephen, Pope Leo X ordered the display of 7 of the ten tapestries he had commissioned from Raphael, produced by the best and most renowned tapestry workshop in Brussels, that of Pieter van Aelst III.
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For this show she's made tapestries of aluminum mesh punctuated by gold leaf, paint, and buttons that operate as figurative elements such as eyes, eyelashes, tears, fingernails, and also do double duty as large push pins that affix the whole work to the wall to keep it vertical.
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The owner, a longtime Friedrichshain resident, scoured a local abandoned train repair complex for former East Berlin-era signs that now grace the walls, along with tapestries bearing the image of Karl Marx, and a large bust of Vladimir Lenin who was, on a recent visit, sporting headphones and aviator glasses.
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"We had the privilege of borrowing very unique items" of furniture, tapestries, silverware and French porcelain, Mr. Compain said, including a vase from 1780 created by the master goldsmith Claude Ballin II. "The exhibition is worth seeing just for this particular vase," which has never before left Russia, Mr. Compain said.
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This rewarding retrospective reveals Moufarrege's impressive range, progressing from the small tapestries he made with a lap loom as a young man in Beirut to the scroll-like horizontal panels of his final years in New York, which combine Spider-Man, Santa Claus, and figures from Japanese prints and Picasso paintings.
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In the jewel-toned living room, an emerald-colored velvet sofa is stitched with scraps from his collection of vintage tapestries — a mix of irreverent 1950s and '60s embroideries featuring flora and fauna scenes — found over 10 years of flea market hunting in the south of France, London and Lyon.
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Grossman went on to document labor unions in the Dust Bowl, and his images from that time are poetic tapestries: in "Oklahoma" (1940), horses, saddled with thick, shiny leather, occupy the foreground, while a farmer in overalls stands atop a distant hill in the background, giving him the contours of something heroic.
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There are T-shirts, hats, posters, tapestries, skateboard decks, headphones, speakers, turntables, bags, watches, pipes, lighters, ashtrays, key chains, backpacks, scented candles, room mist, soap, hand cream, lip balm, body wash, coffee, dietary-supplement drinks, and cannabis (whole flower, as well as oil) that bear some official relationship with the Marley estate.
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Though the conversation needs to be coherent, unlike Bruno Sailelli's somewhat headspinning discourse at Lanvin on poetry, perfume, childhood, tailoring and the 1960s in the form of neatly constructed bandleader coats and capes, flyaway trapeze frocks, ruffled Toulouse-Lautrec high-low hemlines and bejeweled jersey sheaths set among fairy tale Gobelin tapestries.
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In revealing this artist's impressive range, the exhibition progresses from the small tapestries Moufarrege made with a lap loom as a young man in Beirut to the scroll-like horizontal panels of his final years in New York, which combine Spider-Man, Santa Claus, and figures from Japanese prints and Picasso paintings.
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In an era defined by shag carpeting, wicker baskets and macramé tapestries — the prevailing palette was, as Ceglic recalls, harvest gold and avocado green — he decided the corner storefront should instead be completely free of color or texture: a monochrome box that would contrast against, say, the crimson of sun-dried tomatoes.
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From the paintings of the color-blind photorealistic artist David Rosenak, to the surrealistic weaved tapestries of Christina Forrer, to the strange and fragmentary canvases of Amikam Toren, the impulse to organize this show by chronology or concept is replaced by a realization that everything happens at the same time, all the time.
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