The Cone Sisters, donors to the Baltimore Museum, are a case in point about how people who collect and people who are museum donors impact museums. The other lesson to be learned is that when people who distinguish themselves as art collectors collect lace, lace gets taken seriously. A little pandering to the art world might be in our interest as well as encouraging the collectors. Over the weekend I saw some works by Kiki Smith at the Museum of Modern Art in which she used a collection of lace doilies owned by the famous American sculptor Louise Nevelson to make prints that are "inspired by their cultural association with feminine crafts". I was quite interested to see lace being used in art by a dynamic modern American artist of Kiki Smith's stature. (Incidentally, I had no idea that she had done this work before we went. My daughter wanted to see the exhibit because she is very hip.) Devon
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