Wandering Eye: A Stitch in Time Editorial Staff
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York.
ART ALL OVER
A two-part exhibition of
sixteen quilts, made over the course of seventy years by women from the same family and recently given to the Columbus Museum in Georgia, is underway in that state. The gift was presented by Dr. Paul M. Goggans, whose quilting grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-aunt intended these showstoppers for get this functional purposes. (
What’s in a name? A lot. So should we use women artists’ first or last (or first and last) when referencing them in academic discussions of their work? First names are frequently employed, as in the case of Alexander Nemerov’s new book on Helen Frankenthaler. This essay brings to light the complicated issues at play for some writers of biographical scholarship: “Yes, it’s hard to have a name when you’re a woman. But it shouldn’t have to be.” (