Crafty NY Newspaper Covers

Just the kind of thing you'd expect a Warhol superstar to craft up: NY Post and Daily News needlepoint pillows! (Just like grandma used to make.) Brigid Berlin is opening her homespun exhibit at John McWhinnie and Glenn Horowitz Bookseller/Gallery later this month, and Animal reports that "the sixty-nine year old artist is showcasing 10 years of her fantastic embroidery works, including this 'Breaking News' series of New York Post pillows that feature some of the rag's most salacious headlines and crude front covers." She's even got the Keith Richards "I Snorted My Dad" cover in there!

The show opens on October 21 and runs through November 22, and the gallery's site notes that "It is not uncharacteristic that Berlin in later years has turned to the traditionally ladylike craft of needlepoint to create work that continues to challenge the social status quo, defy convention, and pose questions about taste and society."

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on October 15, 2008 3:41 PM

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Terrence

Thanks.

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fourblankwalls

Great idea. I love new stuff like this. Keith looks great.

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NannyState

I love Brigid Berlin and these are a total knockout!

Jen Chung

I want a Wacko Jacko one!

ottoemezzo

These are great. Check out the documentary about Brigid....

"Pie in the Sky"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261174/

and of course, Warhol's "Chelsea Girls" (1966)...

if you can sit through it!

chuzzlewit

this is delightful!

emilydickinson

That is 100% Brilliant stuff! Absolute kudos for choosing 'I Snorted My Dad', one of the best phrases to ever appear in a newspaper.

amsci

I wish these were offered as kits... I haven't done needlepoint since I was a kid, but I'd love to do one of these on a rainy day.

schizofriendly

Way to go, Brigid!

Snoopy

I don't know art, but I know what I like.

ed_Extinct

these are awesome!

brandonz

Uh, the one in the big picture is Daily News, not Post, obvs.

Seriously, you guys need a proofreader sometimes.

WesleySnipesAlot

hahahaha these are too funny. Lets hope she digs into the past with such classics as "She was nice to me, then I kicked her off a roof" and "headless body in topless bar."