Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

The Museum of Modern Art announces Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, an in-depth exhibition that delves into the dynamic intersections between weaving and abstraction. The exhibition will include approximately 150 works in a range of mediums—from textiles and basketry to painting, drawing, sculpture, and media works—exploring the overlap between abstract art, weaving, craft, and fashion. Woven Histories challenges long-held notions of the weave as a function of textile alone, exploring the many forms both warp and weft have taken when explored by abstract artists over the past 100 years. Previously on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the exhibition’s final presentation will be at MoMA, with numerous works not seen at earlier venues.

Photo: Installation photo of the exhibition Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the Los Angeles County Museumof Art (Sep 17, 2023 – Jan 21, 2024), Artwork © 2024 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.Courtesy David Zwirner, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA