I visited the Hunterdon Art Museum on Saturday to drop off some fabric that might be used to frame a piece of art that had arrived without a frame. There I found Seth, one of their excellent installers. He has done installation work for the Newark Museum and now works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Breuer location. He had constructed a small wall to create a corner in which to install Dorie Millerson's tiny needle lace sculptures. He was busy hanging Lenka Suchanek's Are We Made of Lace? pieces with the use of a level. Afterward, I drove over to the Holiday Inn to check whether there would be any problem if some exhibition goers who wanted to have a drink and a chat after the event would be able to do it there. Unfortunately, the answer was no. The Holiday Inn is so busy that night with events that they were closing their restaurant because it would be in use for the events. They handed me a list of local restaurants several of which were sports bars. I was in despair. So, it was determined that my husband and I would go out to Clinton to look for another place, as well as to do a tour of parking lots in town. Fortunately, the Clinton House Inn, a historic inn dating from the mid 18th century and located just across the historic bridge from the museum, within easy walking distance, seems to be a place that can accommodate those who want to go somewhere after the Urchin lighting. While there I noticed that there was a large banner strung across the middle of the down town announcing the opening and the Urchin lighting. Previously, I had asked arachne if there were historic films that could be used to illuminate lacemaking and had received information about two, dating from the 1930s that were very suitable. One had the woman who had been making lace for 40 years and seemed to do it largely left handed and the other was about needle lacers on Burano. Both were from Pathe. So, on Friday we tried to figure out what would be necessary to license the films. It turned out that each film would cost 237 English pounds to license, which the museum really could not afford. So, instead alternatives had to be found. Tomorrow I am supposed to give a tour to volunteers and docents so that they know about the pieces in case they are asked. This is a new challenge because the tour is somewhat dictated by the way the pieces are arranged in the gallery, so I will have to segue between pieces that are placed because of size and other considerations, not thematically. So, today I am rereading the catalog trying to come up with something that will sound coherent. Devon
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