Fiber Art Has Officially Taken Over New York’s Museums and Galleries

These days, seemingly everywhere you turn in New York, there are weavings stretched taut, installations spilling forth with wool, and canvases adorned with thread, bridging the gap between textile art and painting. Welcome to fiber art supremacy. It’s been a long time coming.Fiber art’s ascent has been brewing for the past couple decades—something that Wendy Vogel pointed out in Art in America, referring to the flurry of museum shows devoted to the medium between