Annelise Fleischmann, who became Anni Albers when she married Josef Albers in 1925, was born in Berlin in 1899. As a teenager she studied under the Impressionist artist Martin Brandenburg, but didn’t show much progress with a paintbrush. After the artist Oskar Kokoschka studied one of her paintings, he asked her “Why do you paint?” Undaunted, Albers went to art school anyway, first at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg and then at the Bauhaus, at Weimar, where she entered the weaving workshop. Why weaving? It was the only workshop that would admit women. Albers initially called the discipline “sissy,” but was won over by the threads. She became a modernist master of textile art. This exhibition of 100 drawings, prints, textile samples, and commercial fabrics explores her long and celebrated career. —Elena Clavarino