Anyone can knit a scarf with yarn, but what about a 12-foot pink teddy bear with fiberglass? Or some other 
cute critter in, say, lead, Kevlar or optical fibers? New York's Museum of Arts & Design (MAD) has an exhibit that utterly blows away the whole DIY craft craze. Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting features 27 artists from seven countries, including heavy-metal knitter Dave Cole, industrial designer Niels van Eijk and microknitter (scale 1:144 scale) Althea Merback. Show runs until June 17, 2007.
Cat Mazza's Knitoscope is computer software that transforms video images into "knitted" images (right).
Freddie Robins's Craft Kills installation is a self-portrait that toys with the idea of craft as a nice, passive activity (below).
Dave Cole's knitting machine needs a whole lot of space (below).
