Comments on: Gee’s Bend Quilts Were Worth the Wait! http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:16:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Becky http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-4906 Becky Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:50:59 +0000 http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/#comment-4906 Hey Amber, how's it going? They did have the documentary. Those women are so amazing. I got to see one of my favorite folk artists, Missionary Mary Procter on Sunday - do you know her stuff? She's the coolest lady - full of positive energy. She had a new piece called "The Quilting Contest" that was so neat and reminded me of the Gee's Bend ladies. Unfortunately, we are the last stop on the tour and it ends on June 18. I don't know what happens to the exhibit after that, do you? Will the quilts be in the Houston MFA collection? I'm off to arrange my screened-in porch - got a rug from West Elm for my birthday and I'm hoping it will, to quote The Big Lebowski "really tie the room together." :) Hey Amber, how’s it going? They did have the documentary. Those women are so amazing. I got to see one of my favorite folk artists, Missionary Mary Procter on Sunday – do you know her stuff? She’s the coolest lady – full of positive energy. She had a new piece called “The Quilting Contest” that was so neat and reminded me of the Gee’s Bend ladies.

Unfortunately, we are the last stop on the tour and it ends on June 18. I don’t know what happens to the exhibit after that, do you? Will the quilts be in the Houston MFA collection?

I’m off to arrange my screened-in porch – got a rug from West Elm for my birthday and I’m hoping it will, to quote The Big Lebowski “really tie the room together.” :)

]]> By: Amber http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-4904 Amber Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:41:28 +0000 http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/#comment-4904 Becky, sorry I'm late on this one, but I saw the Gee's Bend exhibit when it came to the Chrysler, and I agree, they are absolutely breathtaking. Did they have the accompanying video documentary with the Atlanta exhibit? It was so cool to hear from some of the artists themselves. I love that this has made it into museums, I feel like sometimes the lines are too defined between what is "art" and what is "crafts." Both take immense skill and talent, and I loved this exhibit. Chuck close is another favorite of mine. The Chrysler here in Norfolk just got one of his portraits that's done in handmade paper pulp. I love it. It's my first time seeing one of his in person. I think it's rather small scale for him though. Becky, sorry I’m late on this one, but I saw the Gee’s Bend exhibit when it came to the Chrysler, and I agree, they are absolutely breathtaking. Did they have the accompanying video documentary with the Atlanta exhibit? It was so cool to hear from some of the artists themselves.

I love that this has made it into museums, I feel like sometimes the lines are too defined between what is “art” and what is “crafts.” Both take immense skill and talent, and I loved this exhibit.

Chuck close is another favorite of mine. The Chrysler here in Norfolk just got one of his portraits that’s done in handmade paper pulp. I love it. It’s my first time seeing one of his in person. I think it’s rather small scale for him though.

]]> By: KRiSTOPHER DUKES http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-4760 KRiSTOPHER DUKES Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:08:13 +0000 http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/#comment-4760 Ahah, Dutch! Funny, I was just thinking how I saw Basquiat at the Brooklyn Museum of Something, and while I loved all his colors and it all looked Cool, capital "C," it was so emperor has no clothes. After watching hipsters ooh and ahh over it - HE DID A LOT OF DRUGS, PERIOD - I couldn't wait to rush back to the Upper East Side and detox on pseudo intellectualism. Ahah, Dutch! Funny, I was just thinking how I saw Basquiat at the Brooklyn Museum of Something, and while I loved all his colors and it all looked Cool, capital “C,” it was so emperor has no clothes. After watching hipsters ooh and ahh over it – HE DID A LOT OF DRUGS, PERIOD – I couldn’t wait to rush back to the Upper East Side and detox on pseudo intellectualism.

]]> By: Becky http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-4752 Becky Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:15:35 +0000 http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/#comment-4752 So Dutch, tell us how you really feel about Chuck Close! When did you graduate U of M law? I almost went to grad school there, but their landscape architecture program was more science-focused and literally a mile or so away from the rest of the architecture school, which was not what I was looking for. It's amazing how many colleges are getting superstar architect buildings. It seems that no regular Joe architects are getting any campus work anymore. For example, it's been amazing to watch the University of Cincinnati campus over the past decade. Especially since it did not used to have a campus! Becky So Dutch, tell us how you really feel about Chuck Close!

When did you graduate U of M law? I almost went to grad school there, but their landscape architecture program was more science-focused and literally a mile or so away from the rest of the architecture school, which was not what I was looking for.

It’s amazing how many colleges are getting superstar architect buildings. It seems that no regular Joe architects are getting any campus work anymore. For example, it’s been amazing to watch the University of Cincinnati campus over the past decade. Especially since it did not used to have a campus!

Becky

]]> By: dutch from sweet juniper http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-4661 dutch from sweet juniper Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:51:07 +0000 http://blog.designpublic.com/2006/06/01/gees-bend-quilts-were-worth-the-wait/#comment-4661 I saw the similar chuck close exhibit at SFMOMA. to be honest, by the end of the exhibit I seriously wished he'd made a punching-bag self portrait so I could have punched the shit out of his annoying bald head and knocked those lame glasses to the floor. his craft is exquisite but dear god the subject in that repetitive presentation was just too masturbatory for me. And Renzo Piano is working on an addition to my alma mater (university of michigan law school) which is already one of the finest combinations of gothic and modern architecture around (the quadrangle and the new library). Hearing that his addition was so seamless at the High gives me hope for what he'll do on the corner of state and monroe in ann arbor. I saw the similar chuck close exhibit at SFMOMA. to be honest, by the end of the exhibit I seriously wished he’d made a punching-bag self portrait so I could have punched the shit out of his annoying bald head and knocked those lame glasses to the floor. his craft is exquisite but dear god the subject in that repetitive presentation was just too masturbatory for me.

And Renzo Piano is working on an addition to my alma mater (university of michigan law school) which is already one of the finest combinations of gothic and modern architecture around (the quadrangle and the new library). Hearing that his addition was so seamless at the High gives me hope for what he’ll do on the corner of state and monroe in ann arbor.

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