A Liaison With Lace
Radical lace, to be exact, at the opening-night extravaganza for “Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting,” the intriguing new exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Arts & Design. Openings at MAD, as the museum calls itself, usually attract 200 to 300 patrons; “Radical Lace” brought them in in droves–between 800 and 1,000 people showed up to honor the 27 artists who contributed 40 or so pieces to the exhibit, which will have a healthy run through June 17.
After a walk-through of the show, I headed over to the post-party at the home of collectors Dorothy and Stephen Globus, whose downtown loft apartment was a museum in itself. I got to catch up with Knit Knit’s Sabrina Gschwandtner, who’s represented in the show by the thought-provoking “Wartime Knitting Circle.” There are tons of events going on in support of “Radical Lace,” which has been underwritten by Coats & Clark and Westminster Fibers; SoHo Publishing is the media sponsor. See the calendar on this site for a complete overview or visit MAD for more.
P.S. The New York Times ran a review of the show in Saturday’s edition. A tad condescending, no?
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Oh yes. I would definitely call it that. And I’d also call their condescension and dismissiveness predictable.
Any cultural manifestation with the words Radical and Subversive (if sincerely intended) is guaranteed to get this treatment. The New York Times has become (since 1996) the country’s
most pervasive purveyor of negative, sarcastic disinformation. It’s no longer an agent of honest
and scrupulous intellectual scrutiny.
So this is to be expected. Forget the NYT. They’ve gone over to far-right dilettantish imperial propaganda. Let’s get our reviews elsewhere….