Art This Week-At The Blanton Museum of Art-Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper

This week, we visit the Blanton Museum of Art and our interviewer Alexandra Robinson speaks with curator, Claire Howard, about the exhibition, Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper. The exhibition is on view through June 30, 2024.
Episode 394-Posted May 2, 2024

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Can we just get to talking about Anni Albers' work and skip the victimhood narrative? The latter has become so habitual in presenting female artists that it's losing impact. And Albers' work had little to do with her gender specifically. Contrary to the popular notion of weaving being women's work, there were numerous 20thC male weavers interested in the same visual problems Albers was consumed by.