Just as the American textile industry began its inexorable decline, artists like Lenore Tawney, Sheila Hicks, and Claire Zeisler decided to eschew the machine for other possibilities.
In a strange twist of fate, Diedrick Brackens's new weavings arrived in the world at about the same time as COVID-19, a disease that, like AIDS, disproportionately affects black Americans.
Suzanne Jackson's exhibition at Ortuzar Projects was an autobiography in visual form.
Anni and Josef Albers did not have children. If they had, the kids might have grown up to make work like Brent Wadden's. The Canadian artist uses Anni's medium, weaving, to create abstract…
In the 1970s and '80s, a bold group of American artists embraced vibrant color, ornament, and craft. Their promiscuity looks prescient today.
If there were justice in the United States, Frederick Douglass's face would be on the twenty-dollar bill, not Andrew Jackson's. Douglass's speeches would be as well known as the Gettysburg Address…
The retrospective exhibition of the weaver Anni Albers that began at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and then traveled to Tate Modern in London, has been greeted from all sides…
"Punched Card," Analia Saban's exhibition of new work at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, offered the material ingenuity we've come to associate with the artist.
Since the election, Syjuco has been going to a lot of protests, and making a lot of banners. This activity furnished the raw materials for her exhibition. A red cloth emblazoned with resist hung in…
"Items: Is Fashion Modern?," now at MoMA, offers a new, broader sense of good design, from couture to the discount rack.