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Profile: The Chinese artist Xie Lei. Thai textile artist Jakkai Siributr. Ikats from Margilan, Ferghana Valley in Eastern Uzbekistan. Our annual guide to museums and exhibitions on the West Coast of America in 2014. Lee Bul’s retrospective at Mudam in Luxembourg. Iranian contemporary art after the revolution in London. Canopies for the Goddess, Gujarati sacred textiles on show in Zurich. Listings. Islamic Arts Diary
Canopies for the Goddess, mata no chandarvo, is the name created for this large-scale exhibition of illustrated Gujarat textiles from, India. These large-format textiles mark sacred places used specifically for the veneration of goddesses. These printed or painted cloths tell the… Continue reading
Ikat is a style of weaving that uses a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design. The Malay-Indonesian term ikat, used in the West to describe… Continue reading
AS ONE OF the first Korean artists to gain exposure abroad following the fall of the country’s military dictatorship, Lee Bul (b. 1964 in Seoul) has been a seminal figure not only in her native Korea, but also in the… Continue reading
JAKKAI SIRIBUTR (b 1969, Bangkok) is an unconventional, contemporary Thai textile artist, who left Thailand to study in the US when he was fifteen. After graduating in 1992, with a Textile/Fine Arts degree at Indiana University, Bloomington, he continued his… Continue reading