Anya Paintsil did not mean to match her artwork. The Manchester-based artist donned a long, fuzzy coat in response to the cool temperatures that caught her off guard after arriving in New York, but ...
He has spent a lifetime collecting textiles from around the world in an effort to spotlight the overlooked makers behind abstract masterpieces he believes “the Western art movement has always ...
By working with textile, contemporary Indian women artists are reclaiming the craft traditions that have historically ...
The town that gave its name to the Navajo weaving style associated with Melissa Cody’s work was also where Howardena Pindell grew up during Jim Crow. From left: Howardena Pindell, 80, painter, and ...
There seems to be a strange, unspoken idea floating around in 21st-century discourse that history, or at least meaningful history, began around the year 1700 – or 1800, or in the most egregious cases, ...
As a textile artist with a previous career in reproductive justice, Chi Nguyen is no stranger to the potent role that craft can play within activism. “Back in 2016, for the Supreme Court case Whole ...
An exhibition in South Street Seaport fills a former warehouse with fiber art and makes its old machinery, including a 12-foot wheel, part of the show. Amanda ...
Join the 'Shakti' exhibition at Alliance Française Madras on March 7, celebrating female power through textile art and ...
Installation view with Françoise Grossen’s “Euphrosyne” (1991, left), “Thalia (all natural)” (1991, center), and “Sisyphe” (1974, right) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Installation view ...
The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. In 2002, crowds lined up around the block outside the ...
"The development of textiles as an art form between 1940 and 1976, and the extent of collaboration between artists and textile manufacturers at this time, is unrivalled in modern art history. Raoul ...