TACTILE SENSIBILITY: READING ANNI ALBERS

Friday, January 16, 6:00-7:30 p.m. 

312 Bowery
New York, NY

Celebrate the new book Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles with a reading from Albers's text "Tactile Sensibility" at The Hole in New York City. Albers wrote, "We touch things to assure ourselves of reality. We touch the objects of our love. We touch the things we form. Our tactile experiences are elemental."

Join us in an open discussion of Albers's text with curators from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in the setting of The Hole's current exhibition Thread Count, featuring emerging and established artists working with textile today. Albers's words continue to resonate and inspire, making a case that contact with materials is at the heart of what it means to be human.

Copies of Anni Albers: Constructing Textiles, newly released by Yale University Press and featuring writings by Albers herself, as well as essays by Glenn Adamson, Karis Medina, Amy Jean Porter, and Jeffrey Saletnik, will be available for purchase. The book was edited by Brenda Danilowitz and Fabienne Eggelhöfer, curators of the major traveling exhibition organized by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (November 7, 2025–February 22, 2026), in collaboration with the Belvedere, Vienna (April 30–August 16, 2026).

This event is free and open to the public.