Textiles

As major shows open on both sides of the Atlantic, we examine the medium’s subversive relationship with gender 

A show at Alison Jacques highlights the artist’s technical prowess and use of colour, but lacks critical discussion of her processes

At Gallery 1957, Accra, the artist’s use of both Ghanaian Kente and Malian textile traditions ‘offers new possibilities for the exchange of cultural knowledge’

From an MRSA Quilt to a Plague Dress, how artists are transforming the intersection of medicine and textiles

An exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt displays 25 of the Scandinavian artist’s monumental woven artworks

An exhibition at the Met, New York, displays the renowned architect’s designs for interiors

The Frieze LIFEWTR Fund acquires Diedrick Brackens for the Brooklyn Museum

The collection includes robes made from salmon skin and a deerskin jacket worn by a 19th century fireman

An exhibition at MoMu, Antwerp, spotlights the largely female ‘Textielgroep’ from the 1970s hanging their work alongside contemporary practitioners

With the current Anni Albers show at Tate Modern marking a resurgence in textiles, charting the changing perceptions of fabrics throughout art history

Jordan Nassar describes how his presentation in Frame at Frieze New York 2018 unites craft and national consciousness

The quietly violent works of Alexandra Bircken

The impact of pre-Columbian techniques and designs on 20th-century artists

Various venues, Shanghai, China

Jennifer Higgie talks to Sheila Hicks about the 60-year evolution of her artistic language

Theatrical textiles and characters in clay

Tactile textiles

Artist Matthieu Laurette, critic Vivian Sky Rehberg and the prolific curator, collector and dealer Seth Siegelaub, who died in 2013 aged 71, discuss the legacy of Conceptual art, the origins of curating and how art history is made