by kitchensisters | Jun 29, 2020 | The Keepers
“A triumphal retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum confirms her standing as one of the great American artists — transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon.” Read the article in the New York Times.
by kitchensisters | Jun 23, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay Gert McMullin. Gert knows the power of sewing. She taught herself to sew at age 9 after her mother died. In the 1980s she began working on the AIDS Quilt and has stewarded it, repaired it, traveled with it for some 33 years. Gert is now making masks...
by kitchensisters | Jun 18, 2020 | The Keepers
We are thrilled to announce that we received a grant from the GRAMMY Museum to catalog, digitize, preserve, and ultimately make publicly available the many music-centered stories and related recorded material in The Kitchen Sisters Archive. Read the official press...
by kitchensisters | Mar 25, 2020 | Hidden Kitchens
There are a few things, or, I should say, a few dishes, that I associate with coming home after a long period away. The main one, of course, is Coming Home Pasta. Whenever my family left for a stretch of weeks— what as a child resembled an eternity—we would come home...
by kitchensisters | Mar 3, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Lou Reed Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts “The Lou Reed Archive documents the history of Reed’s life as a musician, composer, poet, writer, photographer, and tai-chi student through his own...
by kitchensisters | Feb 21, 2020 | The Keepers
Dorothy Lazard is head librarian in the Oakland Public Library’s History Center. She is the gatekeeper to a long list of books, periodicals, photos and other documents that tell the story of this city. Many of these items would be difficult to find anywhere else, such...
by kitchensisters | Jan 29, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The people trying to save scents from extinction “The smells of ordinary life, from traditional pubs to old books, are part of our culture and heritage – and many of them are in danger of being lost.” -BBC Future,...
by kitchensisters | Jan 27, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – Jason Polan, 1982-2020. “Jason Polan, an incessant sketcher whose eclectic drawings and art projects — one was called “The Every Piece of Art in the Museum of Modern Art Book” — made him one of the quirkiest and most prolific denizens of...
by kitchensisters | Jan 24, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay – The Potato Museum, “the first museum about a vegetable.” “Tom Hughes and his wife, Meredith Sayles Hughes, are the couple behind the world’s first Potato Museum, the Food Museum Online, and the Food Heritage Center. The...
by kitchensisters | Jan 23, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay The Pre-Cinema Optical Devices Collection at Princeton. Pictured: a Polyorama Panoptique.
