When you think of fine art, you might think of oil paintings, bronze sculptures or gravity-defying glasswork. You might not think of a colorful quilt, fuzzy felted object or embroidery, perhaps ...

Nestled in the historic cobblestoned streets of Manhattan's breezy Seaport District is an unsuspecting exhibition orienting us toward the future of contemporary fiber art. The Golden Thread: A Fiber ...

Fiber art is having much more than a moment, with increasing market attention paid to artists working in this medium as well as institutional recognition left and right. As just one prominent example, ...

Long caught in the liminal space between craft and something more prestigious, works of thread and fabric are reaching newfound institutional recognition. Sheila Hicks, photographed at her studio in ...

With pieces such as “Intense & Questioning,” artist Lia Cook recorded viewers’ reactions to an image and used data visualization to weave representations of their reactions back into the work itself.

Hackers being as a rule practical people, we sometimes get a little guff when we run a story on an art installation, on the grounds of not being sufficiently hacky. We understand that, but sometimes ...