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Understated Protest Sewn into the Fabric of Brazilian Textile Art

Leda Catunda, “Eldorado II” (2018) acrylic on canvas and plastic at the 33rd São Paulo Biennial (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) In October, a little more than a month after the biennial’s ... read more

Twisted yarns

Fine fabric ... Three Fates, woven by Pat Taylor and Fiona Abercrombie from a 1943 drawing by Henry Moore We think of our lives - and of stories - as spun threads, extended and knitted or interwoven ... read more

ART GUIDE

Given the revolutionary temper of the art, the presentation is surprisingly understated, and this adds enormously ... and straight lines with dry economy and strategically sewn buttons to the fabric. ... read more

Rebellion by design: when ceramics and textiles get radical

At the opening of the Subversive Design exhibition at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery on England ... domestic spaces were turned into spaces of political protest. Groups of women assembled to sew ... read more

A Few Questions for Lauren Luloff, India-Inspired Painter of Fabric and Bleach

Lauren Luloff makes paintings with bleach and muslin, combining layers of fabric with ... easily incorporated into painting. The most influential experience I've had recently was traveling to India ... read more

Celebrating the Anniversaries of Bauhaus and Rembrandt

March 26, 2019 • The traveling exhibition, "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983," that ... Wood, cotton, plastic, metal, acrylic paint, printed paper, and fabric. Photos by ... read more

From modernist to cutting-edge contemporary: Our guide to the best design hotels in Barcelona

The works filter through from the corridors to the sleeping areas and even make it into ... textiles by high-end Spanish brand Gastón and Daniela, retro-style lamps by London-based Andrew Martin, ... read more

Moroccan textile sector battles tough times

Below the locked-up rooms where she once used to sew ... the textiles factory just outside the capital Rabat until six months ago, when management shut its doors as the global economic crisis took its ... read more

We Three Queens

No fiddle-faddle distracted from its ruby silk-velvet fabric, while its understated pagoda sleeves (each sprouting ... Who’s going to object? But the sewn-on corsage, in the same fabric as her dress, ... read more

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2008: Project Kashmir

they’ve left the audience with only the merest glimpse into the complexity of a disastrously muddled situation and little understanding beyond the simple recognition of that complexity. The film’s ... read more

8 Artists to Watch from the 2015 Bushwick Open Studios

Installation view of ‘Home Improvement’ on Rock Street during Bushwick Open Studios 2015 (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) Now that we’ve had almost 24 hours to process everything we saw ... read more

Interiors: We're all eras

‘I met Streett when we were both exhibiting at the Battersea Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair,’ says Charlotte ... but can be enjoyed visually as an art form. As a child and an adult I spent a ... read more