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The Week in Craft: January 31, 2018

Your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing

The Week in Craft: January 31, 2018

Your weekly dose of links about craft, art, design, and whatever else we’re excited about sharing
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Katerina Marchenko Embroidery

Artist and designer Katerina Marchenko embroiders on tulle to create lovely, ethereal, nature-inspired work and clothing.

Courtesy of the artist

We are loving the light and whimsical embroidery by Russian textile designer Katerina Marchenko, whose designs seem to float across a background of transparent tulle.

When we're worried about divisions in our country, Hector Tobar writes in the New York Times, we should remember "art’s potential to enlighten the uninformed and to slowly eat away at prejudice."

Hank Willis Thomas’ reinterprets Picasso’s famous painting Guernica – with sports jerseys.

A rarely seen collection of Tiffany lamps and windows was opened to the public. 

Part bird and part snake, the sensuously serpentine work of British sculptor Kate MccGwire will make you question life as we know it. 

Did you ever want to live in the world's largest chest of drawers? Now may be your chance

The Guggenheim denied the White House's request to borrow a van Gogh painting, offering a golden toilet instead. 

Ceramic fans and collectors alike will want to check out "Through the Eyes of a Collector" at the Lacoste Gallery in Concord, Massachusetts. The exhibition, which features the wide-ranging ceramic collection of Steve Alpert, opens this Saturday. 

Learn about the spiritual weavings created by women of the Diné (Navajo) Nation at San Diego's Mingei International Museum. "Weaving a Path: Navajo Women and the Feminine Ethos" runs through May 20.

Laura Raicovich has resigned as director of the Queens Museum amid concerns among conservative board members

LA ceramist Dora De Larios has died.

 

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