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Mark Newport at the Renwick Gallery - DC

If you are in DC, check out Mark Newport's knitted works at the Renwick Gallery - a part of the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian. (http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions)
As part of a larger show called: Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009, Mark Newport presents a series of knitted superhero outfits. Their crafty, limp and distorted proportions and scale are at once humorous yet critical of the notions of masculinity and gender politics. Here are some pictures from the internet since I wasn't able to photograph in the gallery.

For more info on Mark Newport's work, see the following essay:
http://www.gregkucera.com/newport_reviews.htm