Elizabeth Currie

Research: early modern dress and twentieth-century textiles | Lecturer @UAL | Author of 'Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence'

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

New publication: Kate Lowe's 'Provenance and Possession' on global trade networks and collecting practices in Rome and Florence @PrincetonUPress
https://t.co/Kpvl78C3CD

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Matching skirt and blouse from 1927 by designer Józefa Kogut in the Ethnographic Museum #Krakow, an interesting Polish interpretation of the Javanese art of batik.
https://t.co/briS4HNm0X

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@VendyHoppe @palazzomadamato @WallaceMuseum Great - hope you enjoy it!

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

If you're working with fabric as valuable as this, you don't want to waste any of it. This velvet @palazzomadamato is a great example of piecing and features in my talk next Thursday @WallaceMuseum for #WomensHistoryMonth, in person & online.
https://t.co/uzDqm33ao6

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Newly published by @ManchesterUP Studies in Design and Material Culture: 'Threads of Globalization', ed. Melia Belli Bose on 20th c. fashion, textiles and gender in Asia.

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Cut pile raffia cloths woven in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 19th century, on display at the 'Africa: The Forgotten Collections' exhibition @MuseiRealiTo

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Full-time curator post working with ballet and opera collections @RoyalOperaHouse closing date 27 November.
https://t.co/6K8Ycozovk

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Has anyone ordered images from Italian museums/archives recently? It looks as though, following a decree in April, there is a fee to reproduce all images if the cover price of your publication is more than €0! 😬

[The Warburg Institute @Warburg_News]

We are seeking an experienced, resourceful curator to lead Artistic Programmes at the Warburg devising exhibitions, residencies, public events + more

✨ £49,575 pro rata
✨ 28 hrs/week
✨ Deadline 13/12/2023

https://t.co/ZZ3FoD9x3d

#JobOpportunity #Job #ArtsJobs #Curator

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Some incredibly detailed black on black silks in Frans Hals's 'Portrait of Catharina Brugman' (1634) @NationalGallery plus a fine example of a 17th-century bucket bag.

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Claudette Johnson's 'Blues Dance' (2023) @TheCourtauld and downstairs in 'The Missing Thread' @SomersetHouse the 1978 photo by Chris Steele-Perkins of women dancing in Wolverhampton that inspired it.

[Kettle's Yard @kettlesyard]

Vacancy at @JesusCollegeCam! 🌟

Join their team as an Assistant Curator Works of Art to maintain the existing and future College collection and to continue Jesus College’s exhibition programme 🖼️

Salary: £26,000 (pro-rata)
Closing date: 16 October

https://t.co/HmUZTLZrBK

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

People trying to avoid the news, seventeenth-century style, by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli @britishmuseum
https://t.co/IVn7DXsHQz

[Kettle's Yard @kettlesyard]

Would you like to help preserve Kettle's Yard for future generations to come? 🖼️

Join us as Assistant Curator (House and Collection)! ✨

Salary: £29,605–£33,966
Closing date: 25 September

Apply now: https://t.co/wbrSTaasRn

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

@evelynwelch2013 How exciting - congratulations!

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

Perugia towels and tablecloths, dating from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries, getting some well deserved attention at @GalleriaNazUmbr

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

A really impressive 17th-century cushion cover embroidered with metal threads with lace inserts featuring eagles, mermaids etc. At the @palazzomadamato, which has an interesting textiles & dress collection.
https://t.co/lMQMUA7kGx

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Cordelia Warr's recent article in @ArtAustraliaNZ journal takes a new look at stitches, patches and the Franciscans
https://t.co/WS3pqp3GvT

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

One of the highlights @NationalGallery Saint Francis of Assisi show, a 13th-century wool habit and hemp belt from Santa Croce, Florence, with areas of visible mending.
https://t.co/iFBmOW89AG

[Elizabeth Currie @LizzyCurrie]

There is still a month to go to apply for the @V_and_A Karun Thakar Fund Scholarship open to university students worldwide studying any aspect of African or Asian textiles and dress.
https://t.co/PZps3Da6xs