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
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
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
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
