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Artist Jaanus Samma has long been interested in how the idea of nationalism is constructed. In this exhibition, he draws on materials from his personal collection and the vaults of Estonian museums to create 12 thematic compositions in which he examines the use of national patterns and motifs in Estonian applied art and prints from the 1930s to the 1950s. Samma is mainly interested in how national iconography is connected to power and how it has shaped Estonians' self-image. For this exhibition, Samma created three new works, which explore the national-conservative art canon and offer possibilities of reappraising it from a present-day viewpoint. Samma is also the exhibition initiator and personally selected artworks for the compositions.

• Modernist histories : braided, interlaced, and aligned / Lynne Cooke
• Artists' responses
• Unavoidable Nature / Darby English
• Textile thinking / Briony Fer
• Not your grandmother's labor / Bibiana K. Obler
• Dimensions of basketry / Elissa Auther
• Textility and technology / Michelle Kuo.

"Woven Histories begins in the early twentieth century, rooting the abstract art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp in the applied arts and handicrafts, then features the interdisciplinary practices of Anni Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Liubov Popova, Varvara Stepanova, and others who sought to effect social change through fabrics for furnishings and apparel. Over the century, the intersection of textiles and abstraction engaged artists from Ed Rossbach, Kay Sekimachi, Ruth Asawa, Lenore Tawney, and Sheila Hicks to Rosemarie Trockel, Ellen Lesperance, Jeffrey Gibson, Igshaan Adams, and Liz Collins, whose textile-based works continue to shape this discourse. Including essays by distinguished art historians as well as reflections from contemporary artists, this ambitious project traces the intertwined histories of textiles and abstraction as vehicles through which artists probe urgent issues of our time." -- Provided by publisher.

Focusing on 50 works from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection, this book showcases the arts of stone mosaic (known as pietre dure), carving, inlay, and more. Detailed photography shows the interplay between craftsmanship and cut-and-polished stones, including amethyst, lapis lazuli, and jasper. Often remarkably complex to produce, many of these pieces were commissioned by the wealthy royal families as symbols of their power and prestige.

• The Visionaries
• The Machines
• Digital Type Design
• Games and Experiments
• Digital Print and Web 1.0
• Digital Architecture I: Origins
• Digital Web 2.0
• Digital Architecture II: Parametrics and 3D Printing
• Digital Product Design: Sexy Plastic
• Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
• Data Visualization
• Virtual Reality
• Coda. The Digital Future.