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Beardsley is the author of Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. His work catalogs the social, historical, and artistic significance of quilt-making in African-American culture—saying that quilts had devotional, artistic, and trade purposes...
...said that African-American quilting at the turn of the century was “being fortified in Christianity”—particularly for the group of women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, about whom he wrote his book...
...exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. I heard there was going to be a discussion about the quilts from Gee’s Bend and I decided to hear what was going to be said,” said Joanne Cornell, a local quilter and artist...
After all of the Enrons, Arthur Andersons, and Martha Stewarts, it is no surprise the American public has little faith in the business world. And a big part of the problem with all of these recent scandals is that business leaders try to bend the rules and find shades of gray where there should be only black and white. They try to excuse their actions by saying that in some “technical” sense they did nothing wrong when their actions were clearly unethical and devious...
...Bride and Prejudice, Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) proves her directorial versatility by offering up a classic tale from Western culture, but tinting it with a distinctly Eastern lens. As the title suggests, the movie is an adaptation of the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice, but instead of taking place in 18th century England, the camera takes us through modern-day India, London, and Los Angeles...