Comments on: Shawls, so ugly, yet so compelling http://www.newyorkminknit.com/2008/05/11/shawls-so-ugly-yet-so-compelling/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:16:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: michele http://www.newyorkminknit.com/2008/05/11/shawls-so-ugly-yet-so-compelling/#comment-12390 michele Thu, 22 May 2008 16:14:36 +0000 http://www.newyorkminknit.com/?p=234#comment-12390 that's actually quite good you know. variegated yarn and the randomness of choice and the tie in back to third wave feminism. and there are far more tragic choices women can make in life than knitting shawls. like ... oh maybe i don't need to list them. that’s actually quite good you know. variegated yarn and the randomness of choice and the tie in back to third wave feminism. and there are far more tragic choices women can make in life than knitting shawls. like … oh maybe i don’t need to list them.

]]> By: Adam http://www.newyorkminknit.com/2008/05/11/shawls-so-ugly-yet-so-compelling/#comment-10782 Adam Tue, 13 May 2008 19:11:58 +0000 http://www.newyorkminknit.com/?p=234#comment-10782 Hahaha, Grace. As if <em>politics</em> have gotten more respectable since then! ;) Hahaha, Grace. As if politics have gotten more respectable since then! ;)

]]> By: lekkercraft http://www.newyorkminknit.com/2008/05/11/shawls-so-ugly-yet-so-compelling/#comment-10757 lekkercraft Tue, 13 May 2008 14:31:41 +0000 http://www.newyorkminknit.com/?p=234#comment-10757 AGREED on the Whitney Biennial. I took a day off from work to treat myself to a museum and lunch and it wasn't worth it. Well, lunch was. AGREED on the Whitney Biennial. I took a day off from work to treat myself to a museum and lunch and it wasn’t worth it. Well, lunch was.

]]> By: Art Moderne http://www.newyorkminknit.com/2008/05/11/shawls-so-ugly-yet-so-compelling/#comment-10668 Art Moderne Tue, 13 May 2008 04:20:36 +0000 http://www.newyorkminknit.com/?p=234#comment-10668 But are your shawls transgressive? You'll never get anywhere without that. You need to posit some transgressivity, that's what you need to do. But are your shawls transgressive? You’ll never get anywhere without that. You need to posit some transgressivity, that’s what you need to do.

]]> By: Adam http://www.newyorkminknit.com/2008/05/11/shawls-so-ugly-yet-so-compelling/#comment-10609 Adam Mon, 12 May 2008 19:37:22 +0000 http://www.newyorkminknit.com/?p=234#comment-10609 All you have to do to make something a bullshitty art explanation is to use the word "posit." <em>Somebody</em> told me that. ;) All you have to do to make something a bullshitty art explanation is to use the word “posit.” Somebody told me that. ;)

]]> By: Grace http://www.newyorkminknit.com/2008/05/11/shawls-so-ugly-yet-so-compelling/#comment-10531 Grace Mon, 12 May 2008 14:14:14 +0000 http://www.newyorkminknit.com/?p=234#comment-10531 I read a few reviews of the Biennial and I have been incredibly skeptical... hearing your opinion confirms that I'll likely be incredibly pissed off if I decide to see it. I actually have BFA in Studio Art and I had professors who ate BS for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If I had known then that the art world wasn't going to get any more respectable I would have changed my major to political science. I read a few reviews of the Biennial and I have been incredibly skeptical… hearing your opinion confirms that I’ll likely be incredibly pissed off if I decide to see it.

I actually have BFA in Studio Art and I had professors who ate BS for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If I had known then that the art world wasn’t going to get any more respectable I would have changed my major to political science.

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