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Patrick Boyd Carpenter: ' It’s a Proper Old Fashioned Antique Shop.'

Grays Antiques

I buy anything I like that’s handmade and good quality from the last five hundred years. In terms of stock, I’ve got a good selection, Master drawings, sculptures, oils, textile, and prints. I am one of the last of the general high quality antique dealers. That’s very exciting! What do you like to buy ? That way you don’t lose.

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Textile Art & Racial Identity

MIR Appraisal

Textile has been a rich and important cultural tradition with a long history throughout different regions and peoples of Africa, with many distinctive styles and techniques. The fabrication of textiles by African Americans, particularly quiltmaking, is inexplicably tied with slavery. Beadwork is common in Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Anni Albers: Weaving Modernism into Art and Design

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Celebrated as one of the most influential textile artists of the 20th century, Anni Albers redefined the possibilities of weaving and elevated it to a fine art. Transcending the narrow confines of a functional craft, Anni Albers transformed weaving into a fine art by incorporating modernist aesthetics and artisanal tradition.

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Collection Brief // May 2025

Art Peritus

This iconic venue in the heart of Manhattan will host leading art dealers, presenting an extraordinary selection of masterpieces spanning 7,000 yearsfrom timeless antiquities and exquisite jewelry to museum-quality fine art and cutting-edge design.

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Attleboro Arts Museum Presents Eight Compelling Visions

Michael Rose Fine Art

Through August 28, an exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum explores the remarkable variety one can find within the work of just eight artists. It is tempting to puzzle out how exactly Morris has applied his paints but the weathered quality of his work tends to hold its secrets even to the sophisticated observer.

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The Aesthetic Movement: Beauty For Beauty’s Sake

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If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful William Morris, 1880 And they did this by focusing on producing beautiful art devoid of any other meaning. This wasnt art for anyone. – A Bird Pattern Textile Hanging c.1890.