Ruth Asawa, Anni Albers, and others first experimented with printmaking at June Wayne’s Tamarind Lithography Workshop.
Anni Albers
Posted inArt
Relationships Woven Through Textiles at the Bauhaus
Weaving beyond the Bauhaus looks at the intersecting connections and relationships that took root at the Bauhaus’s weaving workshop and continue to unfurl today.
Posted inArt
The Threads of Anni Albers’ Legacy
Featuring more than 350 objects spanning her career, the Anni Albers retrospective spotlights the pioneering artist’s lasting influence on modern art, design, and architecture.
Posted inArt
How Pre-Columbian Art Influenced Josef Albers
The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
Posted inBooks
Anni Albers’s Thoughts on Textiles Loom Large
On Weaving offers a model for how to write in a way that incorporates theoretical examination alongside practical content; in it Anni Albers provides valuable — and often overlooked — thoughts on art and creative work.
Posted inArt
A Mega-Gallery Marks a Quarter Century
I remember David Zwirner Gallery back in the 1990s, before Chelsea, when the New York art world was much smaller and more manageable.
Posted inArt
The Unknowable Ray Johnson
When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.
Posted inArt
The Lifespan of Bauhaus Utopianism
An exhibition at Paris’s decorative arts museum hones in on the myriad ways that students and teachers at the Bauhaus sought to integrate art, architecture, and design into total artworks.
Posted inArt
Art as a Learning Process: The Legacy of Black Mountain College
BOSTON — Founded in 1933 by the classicist John Andrew Rice, Black Mountain College was a shoestring operation deep in the heart of the rural American South that opened as the Great Depression began and another World War loomed just over the horizon.