Artist Ming Yi Sung is showing her awesome nudie knitted art at the Nevin Kelly Gallery here in D.C. (Details below the fold, for those of you in the area. But you've gotta act fast! The exhibit closes at 8pm tomorrow...) A great example of "recasting traditional “women’s work� for the post-riotgrrrl era." Her stuff is awesome.
In 2005 when Sung exhibited her art in an office building, she was asked to cover up the knitted titties and crocheted cooches. Happily, there seems to have been no opposition this time around.
It's also a good time to plug the "Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting" exhibit going on now at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York. (Again, details below the fold.)
Ming Yi Sung
Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U St. NW
Washington, DC
Jan. 20-Feb. 2
Noon-6 p.m. Sundays and Wednesdays
Noon-8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays
Admission: Free
Information: 202-232-3465
Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting
Museum of Arts & Design
40 West 53rd Street, Manhattan.
Hours: Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (until 8 p.m. on Thursdays); closed on holidays.
Admission: $9; $7 for students and 65+; and pay-what-you-wish on Thursdays after 6 p.m.
Information: (212) 956-3535
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This line in the censorship article caught my eye:
"Common sense would suggest that perfectly normal human beings would rather not face that."
It's possible that I'm misreading this, but seriously? 'Perfectly normal' human beings can't handle an artistic depiction of a nude woman?
I can understand why people might not want to see this in their workplace, but give me a break.
If you can't make the show, there's always this
what? why would the office gallery approve her work to be shown if they required it covered up? what kind of gallery is that, its like the exact opposite of what a gallery is supposed to be.