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Saturday Selects
Week of April 21, 2025
A weekly recap to share with you our favorite links, discoveries, exhibitions, and more from the past seven days. This week: textiles galore, including new Madeline Weinrib rugs in dialogue with Rene Ricard at Emma Scully Gallery, a Su Wu–curated tapestry exhibition in Dallas, and woven paintings on view in Brooklyn.
Exhibitions
In 2009, the textile designer Madeline Weinrib began collaborating with the poet, critic, and artist Rene Ricard on a series of painterly rugs. It all started with a design in which Ricard hand wrote Weinrib’s name numerous times; from there, the pair worked with Nepalese weavers to achieve the meticulous specifics of this joint vision (to get the appearance of graphite, 10 different shades of gray were used). Weinrib and Ricard would spend hours discussing the work. After Ricard died in 2014, Weinrib says she “still felt in dialogue with him” and “would have ‘inner fights’ with him over color choices, and yet, even in these moments, I felt his support. This collection is as much about our friendship as it is about the art.” The rugs (in Tiffany Blue, Naples Yellow, Paper White, and Maroc Pink) are now on view at Emma Scully Gallery in Flower Beneath the Foot, a group show celebrating Weinrib and Ricard’s creative partnership; the rugs are paired with sculptural lighting by Dana Arbib and Simone Bodmer-Turner. Arbib’s “I Dreamed” chandeliers, in amber, cream, and black glass, were commissioned for this show, while Bodmer-Turner’s cast bronze “Modern Lily” sconces, were first displayed at her 2024 Year Without a Kiln show at Emma Scully. Up through June 20th.