When Walter Gropius saw the enrollment policy of the Bauhaus, he struck off a section on female applicants and wrote “only women of extraordinary talents.” The textile and graphic artist Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a product of Bauhaus sincerity. She was not an artist forced into the world of craft, but the greatest example of a true Bauhaus utopian. You could say that Albers was not a weaver, just as Paul Klee was not a printmaker. The point of the Bauhaus, and of this exhibition, is that both artists transcend their categories and give us something bigger. If Anni Albers had remained a painter and never drawn the perceptive connection between Klee’s prints, Gropius’s architecture, and her husband’s rich colors, where would we be? —Frankie Budworth