Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting
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No, it’s not the title of a Tom Wolfe piece circa 1975. It’s the new travelling exhibit from the Museum of Art and Design.
If you still think knitting is for grannies and retro grrlz, check out the ways artists are now using knitting to make provocative, conceptual works. The MAD exhibit aims to show us that our distinctions between high art and lowly crafts are arbitrary, based on the materials used rather than on the power of the piece.
As regular blog readers know, this a subject dear to my heart. When chauvenist blowhards ask rhetorically where all the great women artists of the past are, I always invite them to see the textile halls at the Victoria and Albert. For centuries, women used fiber and fabric — the only materials available to them — to create expressive art. Women were grappling with abstraction centuries before the Cedar Tavern had a liquor license.
The Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting travelling exhibit will be available starting in July. For booking information, contact the museum.
Photo: Althea Merback’s art, Museum of Art and Design
May 6th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Those are weird little things.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Thanks.This is nice article.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:57 am
Hello dustin,
i think this is so interesting and intelligent things.
October 1st, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Thanks for this. Nice site, nice article.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Thats incredible!
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Wow, that’s the most tiny gloves I’ve ever seen…..
March 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Where could I purchase that tiny stuff?
March 13th, 2008 at 8:20 am
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March 29th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
hah, these are some nice little things. :D love to have them at home.
April 10th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
wow, it must takes a very talented person to create that
April 10th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
i agree this piece of art should go into museum
April 11th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Thanks.This is nice article.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:16 am
these are some nice little things. :D love to have them at home.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
the art of knitting, amazing job !