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American
Gotham, 1995
Archie Brennan
Collection of Jane W. and
Worth B. Daniels
Photo by Jeffrey Crespi
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Private
Pleasures: Collecting Contemporary Textile Art
September
28, 2007 - February 17, 2008
Collecting
has played a central role in the shaping of art history as
a discipline. Private Pleasures highlights this aspect
of the discipline through the display of contemporary textile
art drawn from private collections in the Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area. The exhibition explores both the individual
preferences of the collectors and presents the textiles as
outstanding examples of the art form. This discussion includes
the history of textile art from the mid-20th century to the
present day and the genre's place in contemporary art history.
Featured
artists include Olga de Amaral, Archie Brennan, Nick Cave,
Nancy Crow, Lia Cook, Ritzi Jacobi, Michael James, Louise
Nevelson, John McQueen, Jon Eric Riis, Robert Rauschenberg,
Ed Rossbach and Cynthia Schira, among others. The exhibition
is curated by Rebecca A. T. Stevens, The Textile Museum's
Consulting Curator for Contemporary Textiles and accompanied
by an evening lecture series funded by Eleanor T. and Samuel
J. Rosenfeld. Read more about the
lecture series here.
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