The shows to see in Paris during Art Basel
Kristina Foster, Financial Times
October 2025
Textile art takes centre stage at a show at the Quai Branly, which weaves a tale of friendship and creative dialogue between two women devoted to the study of traditional fabric techniques. The artist Sheila Hicks and art historian Monique Lévi-Strauss first met in Paris in 1968 and went on to publish Hicks’s first monograph Le Fil Voyageur (“The Travelling Thread”), reissued for this exhibition. On display are Hicks’s small, delicate “Minimes” series, shown alongside works from the museum’s collection, including ikats and looms and ancient Peruvian tapestries, foregrounding the influence of Andean cultures on the artist’s practice. […]