Velvet painting’s stature in the art world is akin to that of creamed corn in the province of fine cuisine. Although artists have been putting paint to fuzzy fabric since the 14th century, velvet ...
When Diane Shilkitus was younger, she had a giant black velvet painting of a matador in her house. “I used to stare at it,” she says. “I think it just got into my subconscious, and when I got older, I ...
Kooky, kitschy, tacky — Velveteria is all of these, and none of them. In a gradually gentrifying corner of Chinatown, Caren Anderson and Carl Baldwin run their velvet painting museum with a non-ironic ...