tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55954502009-03-01T07:09:51.256-08:00www.tapestryresource.comMusings on contemporary handwoven tapestry in the 21st centuryChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1149697239430008452006-06-07T09:10:00.000-07:002006-06-07T09:20:39.463-07:00Critics still wield power.Although last year there was a great deal of agreement that critics simply didn't have the clout that they had in the 20th century (notably Greenberg, of course) it seems that getting a good review in the New York Times helps increase attendance at a local gallery. In the preface to his June 7th blog, Edward Winkelman writes:We were fortunate enough to receive a glowing Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1147963007852440752006-05-18T07:18:00.000-07:002006-05-18T07:44:12.676-07:00Can blogging change the way that people perceive the arts? If the answer is yes, then can tapestry be included in the community of arts that benefit from the increase in interest?In anticipation of a conference on arts journalism called "The New Playing Field", Arts Journal hosted a discussion blog called "Critical Edge." The arguments definitely piqued my interest but another article actually Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1146518560411776322006-05-01T14:22:00.000-07:002006-05-02T09:22:51.786-07:00As you might have guessed by now, the tapestry world is pretty quiet. All the time. Whatever goes on is well hidden among conversations that never get past a few mouths. We really need more word of mouth.We need that or whatever is equivalent to word of mouth on the internet. A friend sent me a link to an article I wrote in 1998. Now, I am surprised that anyone linked to that article, let alone Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1144788931288618552006-04-11T13:43:00.000-07:002006-04-11T13:55:31.333-07:00April 11, 2006 - Nearly a year has passed since I last found time to post here. Between a lack of time and lapses in thinking about blogs, not much made it to this site. However, a few changes in my priorities certainly make it likely that I can start posting again.First, with regards to my previous post on April 15, 2005, The Art Newspaper has stripped down their website to a few front page Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1113587535966071822005-04-15T10:44:00.000-07:002005-05-18T09:55:57.696-07:00I just checked ArtsJournal's home page and saw this mention of The Art Newspaper's article on critics by Marc Spiegler called "Do art critics still matter?" where he statesIn the popular imagination, the art critic seems a commanding figure, making and breaking careers at will, but one hard look at today’s contemporary art system reveals this notion to be delusional.Although he does admit that Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1113586856432709182005-04-15T10:33:00.000-07:002005-04-15T10:55:38.450-07:00The New Yorker ArticleI can call it "The New Yorker Article" because a lot of people have read it and, in the weaving world, know exactly what I mean. Written by Richard Preston, it gives a great in-depth portrait of what it is like to find the other dimensions of tapestry. People in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance came to know these other dimensions -- tapestry simply does not stay flat onChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1113002356364512642005-04-08T16:12:00.000-07:002005-04-08T16:19:16.366-07:00Finally, some activity to comment on! Barry Hessenius, former director of the California Arts Council, has posted his first blog. This contains references, together with his thoughts regarding the Rand report and the subsequent discussions that report triggered at ArtsJournal where they hold regular weekly blogs with contributions by invited artists and arts advocates.I haven't had time to read Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1110482494151669082005-03-10T11:16:00.000-08:002005-03-10T12:37:09.503-08:00Monograph on tapestry artist Fioreschy makes it to a major publication!As noted in Textilforum magazine, a thesis on Monika von Fioreschy written by Vera Hubel will be published by Verlag & Datenbank fur Geisteswissenschaften where it is available for 19 Euro at www.vdg-weimar.de and participates in their series "Studies in European Culture." Now that's good news. Can you imagine such a thing Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1109003960966156082005-02-21T08:30:00.000-08:002005-02-21T09:12:09.623-08:00Does tapestry ever take on the quality of an overgrown back yard? Overgrown as in the sense of a riot of color and texture that makes most people grab a weed-whacker.The sun shines finally after days and days of rain and gray skies. Our back yard is a fount of green and yellow. Unfortunately, most of the jubilant growth comes from a new generation of weeds, founded on the venerable remains of Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1061617881309644172003-08-22T22:51:00.000-07:002003-08-22T23:01:52.293-07:001. The most unfortunate thing about blogs is that they end up narrating in a backwards fashion. Since the most recent posts appear first, they create a chronology that correctly reflects the thought patterns of the thinker (who builds upon the foundation of earlier thoughts), but they appear to the reader as a reverse chronology. In other words, the only way a reader can avoid confusion is to Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1059413166534448232003-07-28T10:26:00.000-07:002003-07-28T10:50:01.680-07:00It amazes me how distressing life gets when your computer dissolves to a corrupted disk error. Or, should I say how "interesting"? I could not believe that daily survival without my computer could produce such anxiety. Something has changed. I've recently developed a routine (check email, send email, check websites, check email, work on current web project, etc.) that got disrupted just when Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1058978431765724332003-07-23T09:40:00.000-07:002003-07-23T09:59:13.856-07:00The more I think about the "small scale = intimacy" knot, the more I have to examine its constituent parts. Yesterday, it seemed that intimacy involved some human parameters in the viewed object. Today, I'd disagree with that sweeping conclusion. For example, in comparing my responses to Constance Hunt's small piece of a nude to Kathe Todd Hooker's close view of a rose, neither one triggered Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1058890742111781322003-07-22T09:19:00.000-07:002003-07-22T09:19:02.193-07:00Mondays just insist on being Mondays. At least I got a chance to work on redesigning the American Tapestry Alliance website, so that the project heads into a test phase. I also did get to physical therapy (actually, I really like the whole process of p.t. where I get to focus on something non-intellectual). However, I didn't get to the loom. My impatience always grows if I don't have time atChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1058730523457588102003-07-20T12:48:00.000-07:002003-07-20T12:51:54.280-07:00Yesterday I took a drive up to Santa Rosa to see the tapestry exhibition put together by TWW at Soundscape Gallery. I haven't gone to many TWW events over the past few years and I think it's time I started again. An additional incentive, besides wanting to see people, was the display of the MTP, or Memorial Tapestry Project.
The gallery occupies the back areas of a stereo store, in a series Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1058651367536841462003-07-19T14:49:00.000-07:002003-07-19T14:49:27.423-07:00Well, how about try number 3 to get the page to actually publish.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1058649927888774932003-07-19T14:24:00.000-07:002003-07-19T14:25:27.920-07:00Okay, this attempt at re-starting this site has not yet succeeded. I wonder whether the settings work, or if my server is just plain too busy to let me publish. Heh. Like it has it's own life to live.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233402402403609557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595450.post-1058649699620143862003-07-19T14:20:00.000-07:002003-07-19T14:21:39.666-07:00Today I'm resetting my weblog at tapestryresource.com. I've had problems getting upgraded to Blogger Pro. heh. Maybe I can start posting again.
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