There's a real need for rethinking 20th-century art to include the whole country.

In Chicago, they were really trying to do something that goes in a different direction from what was happening in New York. There's a real continuity and a particular flavor to Chicago visual arts.

These artists didn't live in a vacuum. There was a lot more exchange between artists and institutions than we tend to believe.

We have a lot that we've offered this country. It's our art form. It's America's art form.

In the Amish country, the average price is between $1,000 and $1,500. Art quilts can go for much more than that, just like an artist's oil painting. Handmade quilts are more valuable than machine-made quilts. Some of them take six months to a year to make.

We decided to take the one art form that was created in this country -- the Broadway musical -- and celebrate the fact that there have been many gay men who have moved the art form forward since the beginning of the 20th century.