Sheila Hicks - In the thread of love

Preview: written before the show opened

In 1977 Sheila Hicks hung torn, knotted and sewn strips of recycled hospital nurses' uniforms in yellow, pink, purple and beige, and it stirred controversy at the Lausanne Tapestry Biennale. That work, Wow Bush/Turmoil in Full Bloom, belongs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is one of more than 200 works from international collections here.

It is Italy's first retrospective of Hicks, running from intimate pieces to large installations in Ignazio Gardella's modernist pavilion. The museum says she uses thread to tell stories of marginalisation, identity and feminism. Hicks has knotted thread on purpose since the 1950s, which is more than your earbuds manage between Palestro and Duomo on the M1.

A small Project Room show on her 1960 meeting with the painter Piero Dorazio runs alongside. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 19:30, Thursdays until 22:30, closed Mondays; last entry an hour before closing. The museum lists no ticket price yet.