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...three in Birmingham, Ala., plans to have children early meant deciding to become a teacher rather than a doctor. "I'd be 30 before I was finished with medical school," she says. (She ended up leaving teaching with the birth of her second child.) Former fashion designer Daisy von Furth, 33, of Northampton, Mass., dropped her X-Girl clothing line after having her son Wolfie when she was 26. Von Furth is enjoying stay-at-home motherhood but says going back into the fashion business probably wouldn't be an option, even if she wanted to. "You've jumped...
...Krazy and Ignatz" series, should it see its end, will make up a cultural loss as significant as finding a complete version of Eric Von Stroheim's "Greed." Like any great art work, during its own time "Krazy Kat," received as much mystified disdain as it got praise from many of the jazz-age "inelectjools." At least now we will be able to judge for ourselves whether Gilbert Seldes was correct when he wrote in 1924: "Krazy Kat, the daily comic strip of George Herriman is, to me, the most amusing and fantastic and satisfactory work of art produced...
...sculptor’s artistic progression was also marked by the introduction of new materials into her work. Von Rydingsvard told the audience about a visit to an American Indian museum on the west coast. Here she was inspired by functional pieces made with walrus intestines. Based on this organic idea, she then incorporated animal parts—cow stomachs and hog intestines—into her work. Despite the gruesome sound of these materials, the resulting work is surprisingly elegant. The final surfaces appear smooth and supple, much like leather but not as artificial. As in her other work...
...Von Rydingsvard’s stature in the fine arts world has been solidified by the inclusion of her work in various collections throughout the United States in addition to the opening of a current, highly acclaimed show in upstate New York. Her work is now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney in New York as well as the Detroit Institute of Art. Recently, she was commissioned to create a work for the Microsoft Corporation as well—a large piece that now stands in one of the company’s courtyards...
...work is currently on display at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York. The show, which runs until May 5, includes work made specifically for the challenging space of the gallery that tends to make works look small. The call to create engaging work came easily to von Rydingsvard, however, whose work has never lacked scale and grandeur...