From the editors of Textile Forum magazine (1982-2013)
COMMENTS OF A FINNISH PAINTER AND ART CRITIC “While modernism has tried to set itself apart from everything else, it has also acted as a gluttonous beast. Whenever material from outside the lofty high-culture sphere... Read more
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is presenting from 16 September 2013 to 2 March 2014 twelve feather panels made by the Wari people of southern Peru between about AD 700 and 1000.... Read more
Indian textile art from 13 December 2013 to 13 April 2014 at Museum Rietberg in Zurich (Gablerstr. 15, CH-8002) – The exhibition shows 27 extraordinary textiles from the important collection which the former director of... Read more
Art of the Precolumbian Era, Heidi King; Yale University Press, New Haven/USA, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-300-16979-9; 232 pages, 200 colour ills., English text; $ 60 This attractive publication harks back to an exhibition entitled “Radiance... Read more
The exhibition, taking place from 5 April to 2 June 2014, has the theme GEA (= EARTH) referring to the 2015 universal Exposition EXPO 2015 in Milan, Italy, between 1 May and 31 October 2015... Read more
Doris Kurella and Inés de Castro (editors); Linden-Museum Stuttgart/Lokschuppen Rosenheim, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8053-4657-3; 346 pages, many colour and black & white illustrations, text in German. The accompanying book to the eponymous exhibition at the Linden-Museum... Read more
Florian Hufnagel and Jürgen Adam (editors); Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-89790-9; 440 pages, 700 colour illustrations, text German and English. This book with catalogue of the exhibition with the same name at the... Read more