Recent Press

Articles and Reviews 

Anderson, Sonja, “How the Mother of Modern Weaving Transformed the World of Design,” Smithsonian Magazine, July 19, 2023  

Archer, Sarah, “An Exhibition Celebrating Dorothy Liebes’s Distinct Weavings,” The T List, T, The New York Times Style Magazine, July 6, 2023  

Audas, Jane, “A Dark, A Light, A Bright,” Selvedge, issue 115 (November 2023). 

Baker, Saana, “A Dark, A Light, A Bright: Cooper Hewitt’s Exhibit Illuminates the Enduring Genius of 20th Century Weaver and Designer Dorothy Liebes,” The Textile Eye, (also cover image) 

Bankowsky, Jack, End of Year Top Ten Exhibitions, Artforum (December 2023) 

Caligor, Livia, “The Cooper Hewitt Revisits a Maestro of Midcentury American Textiles,” Architectural Digest, May 26, 2023  

Cascone, Sarah, “Textile Designer Dorothy Liebes, Whose Masterful Use of Color Transformed American Interiors, Finally Gets Her Due at a Major Museum Show,” Artnet News, August 12, 2023  

Coombs, Jane, “Weaving with a Loom of One’s Own,” Wall Street Journal, August 23, 2023.  

Dowding, Erin, “The Liebes Look: American Modern Design Defined by Dorothy Liebes,” Väv Scandinavian Weaving Magazine, no. 2, 2023, 18-20. 

Feitelberg, Rosemary, “Designer of Many Talents and Disciplines Gets Her Just Due in Cooper Hewitt Exhibition,” Women’s Wear Daily, July 11, 2023  

Hernandez, Cindy, “Celebrating America’s First Lady of the Loom,” Metropolis, June 20, 2023  

Hickman, Patricia, “A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes,” Antiques & The Arts Weekly, July 7, 2023 

Hubbard, Ross, “Dorothy Liebes, the Mother of Modern Weaving,” The Whirling Arrow: News and Updates from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, July 21, 2023  

Kahn, Eve, “Books about Labors of Love, Cruelty and Destruction,” New York Times, August 31, 2023 

Lasky, Julie, “Shining a Light on Forgotten Designers,” New York Times, October 28, 2021 

Marcus, J.S., “Dorothy Liebes Survey Weaves the Story of Her Little-Known but Colourful Career,” The Art Newspaper, July 6, 2023  

Molteni, Francesca, “La luce di Dorothy che ha tessuto l’America,” La Repubblica, June 14, 2023 

Ray, Debika, “What the Liebes Look Says About Dorothy Liebes,” Untapped, September 18, 2023.  

Ross, Katherine, “She influenced decades of design with blingy, colorful textiles. A new retrospective pays tribute,” Associated Press, October 4, 2023 

Schneider, Julie, “The Glimmering World of Dorothy Liebes’s Weavings,” Hyperallergic, October 26, 2023 

Syracuse, Maleyne, “Dorothy Liebes Gets Her Due,” Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, v. LIV no. 3 iss. 215 (Fall 2023) (also cover image) 

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