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Walters Art Museum

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Luxury & Loss: Feather, Shell, Tusk, Horn

Walters Art Museum · Baltimore, United States · 7 Nov 2026 to 24 Jan 2027

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Objects made from kingfisher feather, tortoise shell, rhinoceros horn, and elephant ivory drawn from the Walters' Asian, European, American, and African holdings, tracing historic luxury demand and its cost to wildlife before such materials were banned from new art.

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