MANITOWOC — On the second floor of the mansion at the Rahr-West Art Museum is a small room originally used as a servant’s room for Joseph Vilas in the 1890s. It has unique gold leaf wallpaper created ...
US authorities have stopped the British Museum from loaning six ivory religious panels, dating from the 9th to the 12th century, to a touring exhibition in Massachusetts and Virginia. The artworks ...
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The last time anyone attempted to catalogue all known Gothic ivory sculpture was a three-volume publication from a French scholar in 1924, but now the Gothic Ivories Project at London's Courtauld ...
LONDON — In his award-winning biography, “The Hare With Amber Eyes,” British ceramic artist Edmund de Waal tells the story of his family through its collection of Japanese netsuke carvings. Netsuke ...
The UK government has passed a groundbreaking bill that will impose a near-total ban on the trading of objects made of elephant ivory in the country. The ban covers artifacts no matter how old they ...
A new exhibition is looking at the traditional art form of scrimshaw through a wider context and contemporary lens. "The Wider World and Scrimshaw” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...