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 ...

Hinke Schreuders, “Works on Paper #37” (2014), embroidery and ink on paper and linen, 10.25 x 7 x 2.2 in, and “Works on Paper #36” (2014), embroidery and ink on paper and linen, 10.25 x 7 x 2.2 in ...

Days after the 2016 election, India Tresselt was watching HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” when the host urged viewers to remind themselves every day, “This is not normal.” The Westford ...

Our brains are great at forming images out of mishmashes and blotches of color, as a pointillist will tell you. Artist Ani Abakumova has taken that idea and applied it to simple colored threads to ...

Gabriel Dawe sculpts 60 miles of sewing thread for his installation piece at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s State of the Art exhibit. Video produced by Dane Walters of KERA Dallas artist ...

Embroidery may not be a new concept, but the use of thread, as a medium of expression, is not as popular as other traditional media. For now, soft and flexible material have come to stay, as artists ...

Many of the works in “Paper, Thread and Trash: A Collection of Art Books Made From Reuse” aren’t books at all — and that suits organizer Courtney Adair Johnson just fine. Cynthia Marsh’s “Dem Bones,” ...