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‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ ‘Up in Smoke’ among movies entering the National Film Registry
6 days, 8 hours ago

‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ ‘Up in Smoke’ among movies entering the National Film Registry

Associated Press  

Nobody puts baby in a corner, but they’re putting her in the National Film Registry. “Dirty Dancing,” along with another 1980s culture-changer, “Beverly Hills Cop,” are entering the Library of Congress’ registry, part of an annual group of 25 announced Tuesday that spans 115 years of filmmaking. In the climactic moment, Swayze defiantly declares, “Nobody puts baby in a corner” …

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Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter
2 weeks ago

Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter

NPR  

Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter toggle caption National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. "We all know what happened to these kids who went to the boarding schools," Hudson said. "Every one of us Natives, we're descendants from boarding school survivors," said Hudson. The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, has …

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‘Karvat’: Bhasha Chakrabarti uses quilt as a landscape for stories of the body
1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘Karvat’: Bhasha Chakrabarti uses quilt as a landscape for stories of the body

Live Mint  

Bhasha Chakrabarti’s images conceal and reveal at the same time. The Ajaibghar series is being shown for the first time at Experimenter Colaba as part of Chakrabarti’s exhibition, Karvat, which is her first solo in this Mumbai space. Textiles play a huge role in Chakrabarti’s practice, and the artist calls herself primarily a “quiltmaker". The quilt in Lihaaf, like in …

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Tyler Perry stirs crowd contrasting Harris and Trump: America is a 'quilt' — not a 'sheet’
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Tyler Perry stirs crowd contrasting Harris and Trump: America is a 'quilt' — not a 'sheet’

Raw Story  

Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry invoked a deep analogy on the stage of Vice President Kamala Harris' jam-packed stadium rally in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, comparing Harris and former President Donald Trump's visions of America to a "quilt" versus a "sheet." It's the latest in a long series of celebrity appearances at the star-studded rally, which also featured former President …

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Echoes of harmony and strength
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Echoes of harmony and strength

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Under the soft glow of the stage lights, artiste Prasanna Rajaram delivered a powerful monologue in his 20-minute play on child sexual abuse. Attempting to create such conversations, The Pride Open Mic, organised by the 21-year-old collective Orinam’s reading group QUILT LiTerature), provided a platform for people from the LGBTQIA+ community to share their feelings and experiences through poetry, …

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Goan village on a quilt | Savia Viegas records the stories of Carmona on denim
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Goan village on a quilt | Savia Viegas records the stories of Carmona on denim

The Hindu  

Quilts and memories go together — the varied scraps of fabric forming a harmonious, scrapbook-like whole. In 2015, when Goa-based artist and writer Savia Viegas was sorting through her late mother’s belongings, she came upon such a quilt. Ten hand-embroidered pieces that she created over the next 18 months, on one-foot-by-one-foot pieces of denim, are now part of an ongoing …

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Remembering acclaimed artist and quilter Faith Ringgold
8 months ago

Remembering acclaimed artist and quilter Faith Ringgold

NPR  

Remembering acclaimed artist and quilter Faith Ringgold Ringgold, who died April 12, portrayed themes of Black life and culture through her quilts, paintings, dolls and books. The acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold portrayed themes of Black life and culture through her quilts, paintings, dolls and books for children. And - but it wasn't until the '70s, when we women artists were …

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Faith Ringgold, pioneering Black quilt artist and author, dies at 93
8 months, 1 week ago

Faith Ringgold, pioneering Black quilt artist and author, dies at 93

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Faith Ringgold, an award-winning author and artist who broke down barriers for Black female artists and became famous for her richly colored and detailed quilts combining painting, textiles and storytelling, has died. For her 1982 story quilt, “Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemina,” Ringgold confronted the struggles of women by undermining the Black “mammy” stereotype and telling the …

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International Women's Day 2024: Google Doodle depicts quilt with symbols of progress
9 months, 2 weeks ago

International Women's Day 2024: Google Doodle depicts quilt with symbols of progress

Hindustan Times  

The Google Doodle on Friday did its bit to celebrate International Women's Day, observed worldwide on March 8. This year's Doodle features “a group of women sharing wisdom across generations within a quilt embroidered with symbols of progress over the years.” International Women's Day 2024: Google Doodles are spontaneous and temporary alterations to the Google logo to honour various local …

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Shining a light on the ‘darkness of ignorance’: literary LGBTQ+ tales
1 year, 7 months ago

Shining a light on the ‘darkness of ignorance’: literary LGBTQ+ tales

The Hindu  

April 27, 2023 08:30 am | Updated 10:00 am IST A day before the Supreme Court began hearing a clutch of petitions seeking legal validity for same-sex marriages, the Centre, in an affidavit, held that the demand was merely a voicing of “urban elitist views” and that the existing concept of marriage as a heterogeneous institution enjoys the sanctity of …

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Stories told in stitchery at Folk Art Museum’s quilt exhibit
1 year, 7 months ago

Stories told in stitchery at Folk Art Museum’s quilt exhibit

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — From simple geometric shapes to the intricately wrought details of daily life, the quilt designs in a show now running at the American Folk Art Museum show how powerfully this art form has told stories for centuries and been a vehicle for creativity. “What this quilt knows and exposes is a bit about Black-lived experiences and artistic …

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The One Bedding Swap You Need For The Spring And Summer
1 year, 7 months ago

The One Bedding Swap You Need For The Spring And Summer

Huff Post  

Urban Outfitters Pendleton's geometric cotton matelassé coverlet When it comes to rejuvenating your bedroom for the warmer seasons, the first place to start is the star of the room: your bed. Allow us to introduce you to coverlets, which we’re sure will become your favorite bedding item for spring and beyond. Ellen Van Dusen, founder of Dusen Dusen, a line …

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How to channel Daisy Jones & The Six’s free-spirited style at home
1 year, 9 months ago

How to channel Daisy Jones & The Six’s free-spirited style at home

The Independent  

It’s hard to resist a tale about the legendary, yet short-lived, exuberant rise and chaotic fall of a rock band set against the backdrop of 1970s Los Angeles. Prime Video’s new hit series Daisy Jones & The Six, based on the bestseller by Taylor Jenkins Reid, has taken us back into that time capsule of covetable style and unapologetic cool. …

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Today in History: October 11, Anita Hill testifies at Clarence Thomas hearings
2 years, 2 months ago

Today in History: October 11, Anita Hill testifies at Clarence Thomas hearings

Associated Press  

Today in history: On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “high-tech lynching.” Also on this date: In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered all the city’s Asian students segregated into their own school. …

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Book Box: Celebrating Pride Month
2 years, 6 months ago

Book Box: Celebrating Pride Month

Hindustan Times  

Last week, I was walking through the streets of Brooklyn, when I saw a cardboard box thrown out on the sidewalk. Book 1 of 4: Essays Book 2 of 4: A cult book “As we waited at that street corner in the vivid, fiery air of late October, we stared dumbly through the windows at the autumn we’d forgotten, living …

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Sewing for Justice: Grenfell survivors craft giant memorial quilt
2 years, 6 months ago

Sewing for Justice: Grenfell survivors craft giant memorial quilt

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Grenfell Tower survivors have been channelling “seeds of anger” felt …

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COVID-19 memorial creators reflect as world nears 5M deaths
3 years, 1 month ago

COVID-19 memorial creators reflect as world nears 5M deaths

Associated Press  

As the world nears the milestone of 5 million COVID-19 deaths, memorials large and small, ephemeral and epic, have cropped up around the United States. “For a lot of people, it’s all they have to remember their loved ones.” The displays are now the centerpiece of the Rami’s Heart COVID-19 Memorial, which opened in September at Allaire Community Farm in …

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A$AP Rocky's multicoloured quilt cloak for MET Gala 2021 sparks meme fest on Twitter
3 years, 3 months ago

A$AP Rocky's multicoloured quilt cloak for MET Gala 2021 sparks meme fest on Twitter

India Today  

The MET Gala 2021 has kicked off with celebrities setting the red carpet on fire with their eccentric, quirky and out of the box styles and lavish fashion choices. #MetGala pic.twitter.com/vRJRvKs90d — J!M September 14, 2021 Okay but why is ASAP Rocky out here looking like Candy Crush at the #MetGala?! pic.twitter.com/dwes3BEmaw — Joey Castillo:) September 14, 2021 it’s like …

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A youth-driven Met fashion exhibit, for a changing world
3 years, 3 months ago

A youth-driven Met fashion exhibit, for a changing world

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — “How do you define American fashion?” It was three years ago, and Andrew Bolton, the longtime curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, was pondering that question. “There are 100 different definitions of American fashion,” Bolton said this weekend as he showed a reporter around the new show, which opens to the public later this …

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How quilting, knitting brought people closer during covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

How quilting, knitting brought people closer during covid-19

Live Mint  

“It’s like being in a normal world for six hours,” says Mona Absalam, looking for the perfect shade of pink in a box overflowing with multicoloured threads to finish a bright shirt she is tailoring. “It’s a small thing but stitching pieces of cloth, joining threads, filling holes to create something, a blanket, a quilt, it is so reassuring, so …

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Those invisible women who labour over kantha quilts
3 years, 8 months ago

Those invisible women who labour over kantha quilts

Live Mint  

The desire to mend, repair and reuse is intrinsic to human nature, though that may be hard to believe in this age of disposable living. “We couldn’t close these gaps,” Kambadur admits on a video call, “especially since quilting was mostly considered to be ‘women’s labour’, not given the serious attention such work deserves.” Indeed, one of the ideas behind …

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'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy
4 years ago

'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy

BBC  

'Cottagecore' and the rise of the modern rural fantasy Credit: Alamy How did a bucolic dreamland became the perfect escape from real life? Universal Music Taylor Swift's latest album Folklore helped bring the cottagecore aesthetic into the mainstream As an aesthetic that romanticises the return to traditional bucolic attributes, cottagecore lays heavy emphasis on a mix of rural self-sufficiency and …

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This Brilliant 'Quarantine Quilt' Is Uniting Crafters Around The World
4 years ago

This Brilliant 'Quarantine Quilt' Is Uniting Crafters Around The World

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING More than 100 keen crafters around the world have come together to form a patchwork “quarantine quilt,” stitching together a picture of how we’ve experienced the pandemic. “80% of garment workers are women and given the countries garment workers are usually situated in, it follows that they’re likely to be women of colour,” says Slade Edmondson. ”These …

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Sai Paranjpye tells it like it is
4 years ago

Sai Paranjpye tells it like it is

Live Mint  

One of the more straightforward pleasures of reading A Patchwork Quilt, the 82-year-old director Sai Paranjpye’s memoir which releases later this week, is discovering what she was like as a child. Recalling how Sheikh and Naseeruddin Shah wanted each other’s roles in Katha initially, Paranjpye says, “Farooque said that he had such a squeaky clean image and how could he …

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