Art
New Fluffy Tulle Artwork Livens Up a Gray Manhattan
Ana María Hernando’s installation at Madison Square Park brings warmth and light to chilly New York.
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Palestinian Artist’s Digital Embroidery Illustrates Gaza Death Toll
Maya Amer used the art form’s multicolored stitches to visualize the more than 8,000 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes.
Books
The Stories Behind the World’s Most Coveted Dyes
Dyed garments were once treasured items whose colors could take significant time, long distances, and untold fortunes to produce.
Art
The Glimmering World of Dorothy Liebes’s Weavings
A new book and show at Cooper Hewitt introduces the artist’s vivid, textural world to a new generation.
Art
A Pajama Party That Pauses Time
With Slumber Party, Benoît Piéron transforms the harshness of hospitals into a softer, dream-like space, where time seems flexible.
Art
Visit the NYC Bagel Shop Made Entirely of Felt
Artist Lucy Sparrow invites New Yorkers to feast their eyes and immortalize their go-to orders at her interactive pop-up bagel shop.
Art
Two Native Artists Want to Reclaim Their Landscapes and Textiles
Steven J. Yazzie and Patrick Dean Hubbell dismantle blatant distillations of Native visuality for profit that continue to commit and perpetrate harm against Indigenous artists and communities.
Art
Jane Lackey’s String Theory
Lackey’s “cut paintings” bring to the forefront the often invisible or rarely acknowledged experiences of connection.
Art
Sumptuous Textiles Tell a Story of Inequality
Elsa María Meléndez takes on historical narratives that have perpetuated the disempowerment and marginalization of Puerto Rican women.
Books
Mapping Patchwork Across the Globe
Catherine Legrand’s Patchwork: A World Tour is an important step towards finally giving this art form the appreciation it deserves.
Art
Katie Shulman’s Delicate Dance With Fiber
If the body as a point of inspiration was once an innocent or abstract notion for the fiber artist, her more recent work can no longer avoid the body as battleground.
Art
Echoes of Joy and Peril in Leda Catunda’s Textiles
The Brazilian artist practices an erasure poetry upon textiles and assembles the results into evocative, semi-sculptural configurations.