textiles
If it’s useful, it can’t be art. For the longest time, the art world has deemed craft as less-than. Figures like Ruth Asawa, whose suspended sculptures stem from basket weaving, took a…
Weaving the New World: Hispanic Textiles and Their Influence on the Northern Frontier opens December 6 as the winter exhibition at Couse-Sharp Historic Site. Installed in both…
Internationally renowned Ugandan multidisciplinary artist Acaye Kerunen combines storytelling, writing, acting, and activism in her performances and installations. Kerunen collaborated with Collin…
Renowned for his large, site-specific Plexus installations, which use sewing thread to emulate refracted light, Mexico City-born artist Gabriel Dawe (1973) works with various media–including textiles…
Pioneering fiber artist and weaver Consuelo J. Underwood is known for breaking boundaries–integrating barbed wire, caution signs, religious iconography, botanical imagery, and astronomy into…
Internationally renowned Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa (b. 1977) creates stunning installations using a variety of media, including textiles, paper, wood, minerals, and unexpected…
Africa sits as the world’s second-largest continent and holds an intriguing and extraordinary history. Among its 54 distinctive countries, the genesis of developed humanity in Ethiopia rests.…
When fashion icon Iris Apfel died at 102, she left a legacy of artful living.
Featuring exquisite Tiffany lamps, English carpets, and important paintings by Albert Joseph Moore, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Bouguereau, the upcoming sale of the
The Gordon Parks Foundation recently opened Bisa Butler: Materfamilias, an exhibition of new textile based works by Bisa Butler. This show, the culmination of Butler’s 2022 Gordon Parks…
Two and a half years in the making, Threads of Power is now open at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery. It is an impressive show that takes a historical, political, financial, and logical…
Ugandan multidisciplinary performance and installation artist, Acaye Kerunen, is making quite a splash on the international art scene. Combining storytelling, writing, acting, and activism in her art…
April Bey’s practice is grounded in the fundamental truth that systems and attitudes don’t need to be the way they are. Through both her striking aesthetic and her conceptual approach, Bey breaks…
While much of modern lace is loomed by machine, until the mid-nineteenth century, the art of lacemaking was a painstaking and time-consuming craft produced predominantly by women. Despite being a…
The Hunt for the Unicorn Tapestries, cartoons made in Paris, woven in the Southern Netherlands, c. 1495–1505, wool, silk, metal threads (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), including, • The Hunters…
