{"id":6068,"date":"2017-01-17T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T02:35:10","slug":"christine-and-margaret-wertheim-and-the-institute-for-figuring-at-the-museum-of-art-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/christine-and-margaret-wertheim-and-the-institute-for-figuring-at-the-museum-of-art-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine &#038; Margaret Wertheim at the Museum of Art &#038; Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most visually stunning shows in New York this season, sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim and a team of collaborating makers have created crocheted segments of coral reefs as sculptures, now on view at the <a href=\"http:\/\/madmuseum.org\/exhibition\/crochet-coral-reef-toxic-seas\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Art and Design<\/a>. Using geometry to crochet forms that correspond to the shapes of the reefs, the sisters combine yarn and plastic trash in glittering, colorful sculptures that gratify the senses as they warn against our ongoing destruction of the world\u2019s coral reefs. (On view through Jan 22<sup>nd<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6069\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/christine-and-margaret-wertheim-and-the-institute-for-figuring-at-the-museum-of-art-design\/mad_coral\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6069\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6069\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MAD_coral-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim with Sarah Simons, Clare O\u2019Callaghan, Kathleen Greco, Evelyn Hardin, Matthew Adnams, Christina Simons, and Jemima Wyman, (detail) Coral Forest \u2013 Ea, Plastic shopping bags, The New York Times wrappers, Hula-Hoop, plastic spades, found objects, yarn, felt, Sonotube, chicken wire, 2009 \u2013 14.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MAD_coral-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MAD_coral-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim with Sarah Simons, Clare O\u2019Callaghan, Kathleen Greco, Evelyn Hardin, Matthew Adnams, Christina Simons, and Jemima Wyman, (detail) Coral Forest \u2013 Ea, Plastic shopping bags, The New York Times wrappers, Hula-Hoop, plastic spades, found objects, yarn, felt, Sonotube, chicken wire, 2009 \u2013 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the most visually stunning shows in New York this season, sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim and a team of collaborating makers have created crocheted segments of coral reefs as sculptures, now on view at the Museum of Art and Design. Using geometry to crochet forms that correspond to the shapes of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/christine-and-margaret-wertheim-and-the-institute-for-figuring-at-the-museum-of-art-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christine &#038; Margaret Wertheim at the Museum of Art &#038; Design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,147,18,6738,6742,2519,432,6741,6740,6739,590,4164,3081,10,1382,16,4272],"class_list":["post-6068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-christine-wertheim","tag-coral-reef","tag-environment","tag-gallery-tour","tag-institute-for-figuring","tag-madmuseum","tag-margaret-wertheim","tag-museum-of-art-and-design","tag-plastic","tag-sculptors","tag-sculpture","tag-sisters","tag-tour","tag-trash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1zS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12102,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/12102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}