In what little text I did read, I noticed an repetitious emphasis on the use of color (we get it! complimentary colors look good together!!) and a real lack of information about the technical structure of the cloths. Gorgeous trapunto and stippling went without mention; one quilt supposedly had discharged cloth in it where I could find none.
But! I still thoroughly enjoyed the show and firmly believe that quilts belong on the walls of our art museums — and not just the magnificent Gee’s Bend quilts, either.
All the photos were taken with my phone, so please indulge the lack of focus!
An entire room of variations on the Log Cabin pattern was my favorite part of the show, not only because of the quilts themselves, but because the grouping revealed how profound an impact color/value choices have on design. All the quilts in the room used the very same pattern and yet were radically different from each other.