There are memories of my grandmother making quilts for me—and then with me, seated at the sewing machine between generations—evoked every time I see fabric made into art. Pieces come together forming another: a whole is its parts. Cassandra Mayela Allen’s current exhibition, Aquel Amplex, at Instituto Cervantes in Manhattan, is exactly about that embrace.

Robert Rauschenberg has returned to the Guggenheim in honor of his centennial year. Part of the museum’s Collection in Focus series, Life Can’t Be Stopped presents a sort of miniature retrospective.