A week ago, someone named Will Haygood wrote a spectacular Washington Post review/article about the "Quilts of Gee's Bend" exhibition at the Corcoran.

It's not only well-written, but Haygood really gets to the human aspect of this exhibition - the strong, beautiful women of Gee's Bend - in a way that not many of us could. It is one of the best pieces of written art - about art - that I have read in the Post in years.

This was a major, multi-page review in Sunday Arts, and while it was brilliant, I am somewhat curious as to why this Post writer, rather than one of the Post's art critics, wrote the piece.

The New York Times dubbed this show one of the “ten most important shows in the world,” with high brow critics like Kimmelman heaping well-deserved praises all over it, and having seen it myself, I will tell you that it is without a doubt the best quilt show that I have ever seen.

So with a giddy endorsement from one of the most influential art critics in the nation, writing from the art pages of the most powerful newspaper in the world, it is curious that none of the Post's art critics covered this show (so far) and with the huge extravaganza of a review last Sunday, it seems that the Haygood review may be it.

Possibly because Blake Gopnik had reviewed the show earlier when it was in New York. And let me tell you - it is one of Gopnik's best written and more insightful reviews to date.

The show will be up at the Corcoran until May 17, 2004. Plenty of time for my theory (unlike Einstein's dark matter theory) to be proven wrong.