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 ...
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 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 ...
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They may appear morbid by today’s standards, but at the turn of the 16th century, they were the height of fashion: palm-sized ivory carvings of skulls, mirrored by human faces, that represent status, ...
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 ...
In 2013, President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13648 to combat wildlife trafficking. Though the word “ivory” is not mentioned in its text, the order was meant to address elephant poaching in ...
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