The acknowledged mother of yarnbombing, Magda Sayeg has hit Hong Kong’s most crowded shopping center, Langham Place Shopping Mall in Mongkok. The commissioned piece is a yarn encrusted faux streetscape,…
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UT’s Blanton Museum has commissioned alum Jules Buck Jones to create a temporary outdoor installation in the museum’s Faulkner Plaza for the annual Explore UT event, set for March 3,…
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Outsourced and Upmarket, Sayeg Continues to Cover the World with Yarn (and Newspaper Clippings)
Austin artist Magda Sayeg’s back in the news- the Wall Street Journal profiles the former Houston yarn-bomber turned global celebrity in a short piece in today’s paper. Sayeg’s meteoric rise…
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Knitta, Please: My Girl Crush on Magda Sayeg
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisIn any new issue of Texas Monthly, the first item I turn to is “Object Lesson,” Kristie Ramirez’s regular piece on the trinkets and baubles that notable Texans keep on…
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This just in from PR firm Giant Noise: “Sunglass Hut, the premier shopping location for high quality fashion and performance sunglasses, is pleased to announce the fourth annual Sunglass Hut…
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Knitted public art, sanctioned or unsanctioned, got a shout out in the NY Times Thursday. The piece credits Magda Sayeg, owner of Raye boutique in Houston with the knit-graffiti idea,…
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The Yarn Dawgz, an all-male knitting collective, have an installation at San Antonio’s Pearl Brewery. The Dawgz are Billy Muñoz & Dino Foxx, both young Latino artists. Two knitters (and…