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 [...]
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Sheila Hicks: 50 Years
November 7, 2010
2010 Weave of the week #7: Two fancy aprons, one mystery
June 27, 2010
In December 1977, at a thrift shop in Soho, I bought a vintage bathrobe for my honey, and the intriguing garment shown above for my haphazard textile collection. I find this apron such a fascinating cacophony of fabrics, colors, techniques, and design motifs, that from time to time I try to find out where it [...]
El Anatsui exhibit in Brooklyn Heights
April 2, 2009
El Anatsui is an internationally recognized Ghanaian-born contemporary multi-media artist. I first saw his (literally) brilliant work last winter at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery and in the recent African textile exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (where his glittering construction “Beyond Earth and Heaven” will be on view only until Sunday, April 5). El [...]
