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Don’t Mess With Textiles

Textiles are having a moment as a valid art form. A new Olga de Amaral retrospective in Miami is a festival of technical skill that puts her fabrics, in the words of ICA Miami’s director, “somewhere between painting and sculpture.”

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Most of us are not going to make it to Miami in the off-season, but if you’re in New York right now, you can see four of de Amaral’s works at the auction houses. Photo: Diego Amara/Courtesy of Fondation Cartier
Marion Maneker
May 6, 2025

At Art Basel Paris last October, I ran into Bloomberg’s James Tarmy, one of the most sophisticated people I know. I asked what he had seen. “You have to see Olga de Amaral,” he blurted out—both as a recommendation and an assignment. His eyes opened wide, and he added, “Nothing even comes close.” The show of works from the 93-year-old Colombian textile artist, housed in a Jean Nouvel building in the 14th arrondissement—and open for a few more months, before it moves to a new home by the Louvre—was everything that Tarmy promised.