More about the Yoors tapestries (see previous post here). If you missed last summer’s exhibition of work by Jan Yoors, or would like a chance to see some of his fascinating output, there is currently an exhibition of tapestries, drawings, and gouaches from the estate of Jan Yoors at reGeneration Furniture, NYC. The exhibition has [...]
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Tapestry snippets: A chat with Marianne Yoors
February 16, 2011
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years
November 7, 2010
If you have been following my posts about Sheila Hicks, here’s the latest: The first museum retrospective of Sheila Hicks’s remarkable career just opened at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, and will continue through February 27, 2011, after which it will travel to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and the Mint [...]
The tapestries of Jan, Annabert, and Marianne Yoors
July 15, 2010
With some exceptions, I am not a fan of contemporary tapestry weaving, so when my friend Ann Rosenthal called recently to ask if I had seen Annabert Yoors’s obituary in the paper, I asked, “Who?” Ann said, “She was a weaver who wove with her husband, and there’s a picture of her at her loom. [...]
