OPENING: Dan Graham collaborates with landscape architect for Metropolitan Museum rooftop project

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, Museums, New Work, Public Art

On a blustery spring day, the site-specific work "The Roof Garden Commission" by artist Dan Graham in collaboration with landscape architect Günther Vogt opened atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Architectural constructions of sensuously curving beams of steel supporting curved panels of lightly mirrored glass, the work is arranged on a grassy lawn that connects the rooftop to the adjacent green landscape of Central Park. The glass is carefully designed to both reflect and be permeable to light, offering complex and constantly-shifting perspectives for visitors walking in and out of the structure. The outdoor installation will be up through November 2, 2014, available to museum visitors when the weather permits.

Friday April 25, 2014 | by Andrew Page

3 Questions for ... Daniel Cutrone

FILED UNDER: Artist Interviews, Exhibition, New Work

The GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet blog recently caught up to Daniel Cutrone, an assistant professor in the glass area at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and a practicing artist with a solo exhibition currently on view at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Holding an MFA in glass from Tyler, as well as a BFA in painting from the University of the Arts, Cutrone writes in his artist statment about his work's efforts to "engender a state of questioning" and to test and challenge boundaries. Below, we present an exchange with the artist about his latest work, his inspirations, and where his work is on view.

Tuesday April 15, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Coburg Glass Prize awarded to Danish artist Karen Lise Krabbe

FILED UNDER: Award, Exhibition, New Work, News

The fourth Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass was awarded over the weekend, with the top honor including a 15,000 Euro (more than US$ 20,000) prize going to Karen Lise Krabbe of Denmark. Open to European artists working with glass, the richest prize in glass is awarded at multi-year intervals. The first was given in 1977, followed by 1985, and 2006. Second prize was awarded to American Jeff Zimmer (currently living in Scotland and thus qualifying for the competition). Sylvie Vandenhoucke of Belgium won third prize.

Tuesday April 15, 2014 | by Andrew Page

PERFORMANCE: Classic Greek play of vengence adapted for glass studio event

FILED UNDER: Events, New Work, News

Billed as a "glassblowing-theater adaptation," a novel production of the Euripedes' drama Medea will fuse the sights, heat, and sounds of glassblowing with ancient Greek tragedy that charts the horrific vengence undertaken by a woman scorned. Patricia Coleman, a New York City writer and theater director, has adapted the classic drama "developing a pared-down text that goes to the heart of female aggression," according to a Website about the upcoming event, taking place at the for-profit studios of Brooklyn Glass for four performances (on April 18, 19, 25, and 26th at 8 pm).

Friday March 28, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Museum survey of emerging European glass artists celebrates new generation

FILED UNDER: Announcements, Exhibition, Opening

"European Glass Experience: Undiscovered Potential" is an exhibition celebrating a new generation of contemporary glass artists organized by the City of Venice in collaboration with the Murano Glass Museum and a consortium of glass businesses in Murano. The exhibition began as a competition funded by a European Union grant, and the project is a partnership with European cultural instutitions and production centers in Finland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The result is a touring exhibiton glass sculptures and drawings that opens today at the Finnish Glass Museum and runs through June 8, 2014. The exhibiiton will then move to the Fundación Centro Nacional del Vidrio in Segovia, Spain, with a final stop in Spring 2015 at the Museo del vetro in Venice, Italy.

Wednesday March 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

AUCTION: Christie’s upcoming sale of legendary dealer Barry Friedman’s glass collection

FILED UNDER: Auction, Events, News

Art dealer Barry Friedman, who announced his plans to retire this month back in November 2013, is auctioning off his substantial holdings in 20th- and 21st-century decorative arts and design, fine art, photography, ceramics, and glass. A total of 400 lots are going up for a series of auctions at Christie's Rockefeller Plaza location that, for glass collectors, will culminate in the sale of his holdings in Italian and contemporary glass in the morning and the afternoon of Thursday, March 27th respectively.

Wednesday March 26, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Winner of the 2014 Borowsky Prize, Helen Lee will lecture at UArts

FILED UNDER: Award, Education, Events

The inaugural Irvin Borowsky Prize in Glass Arts, an annual juried award that includes a $5,000 gift, was won by artist and University of Wisconsin, Madison, assistant professor Helen Lee. As part of the 2014 prize, she will deliver a special lecture at 6:30 this evening at University of the Arts's CBS Auditorium in Dorrance Hamilton Hall. Lee holds a BSAD in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and an MFA from RISD.

Thursday March 20, 2014 | by Andrew Page

International Flameworking Conference featuring Joyce Scott to get underway March 28

FILED UNDER: Education, Events, News

Joyce Scott and Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen will be the featured artists at the International Flameworking Conference, taking place from March 28th through 30th at Salem County Community College in Carney's Point, New Jersey. The 14th annual event is the leading annual gathering of flameworkers spanning the full range of torch work from artistic, scientific, and pipe making pursuits. Beadwork will take center stage in this year's big event as Scott's beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces take center stage, addressing political and social concerns with a frank engagment of issues of gener, race, and class.

Wednesday March 19, 2014 | by Andrew Page

Glass Secessionists to “gather” at the GAS conference on heels of American Craft interview

FILED UNDER: Events, News

The Glass Secessionist Facebook discussion group, in which artist Tim Tate moderates an online bulletin-board conversation about wide-ranging work in glass that in the eyes of followers draws a line where Studio Glass ends and a new type of work begins, is holding an in-person meeting during the 2014 Glass Art Society conference in Chicago. Taking place at 12 noon on Friday, March 21st, and billed as "the Gathering," the idea is to bring together in real life those who know each other mostly from the posting of photos of glass artwork, installations, and architecture and responding politely and usually positively. (Tate admonishes members to "keep it civil or have your post deleted" and keeps a tight rein on the exchange to prevent "cyber-bullying.") (Disclosure: Tim Tate published an essay laying out why he embarked on his Facebook enterprise in GLASS #133, and GLASS contributing editor William Warmus is one of the most frequent contributors to Glass Secessionism after Tate).

Tuesday March 18, 2014 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Online commercial exhibition billed as a tribute to Harvey Littleton

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Opening

The online shopping site Artful Home has grouped 22 glass works in its extensive "Art Glass" section as a "Tribute exhibiiton to Harvey Littleton."There is no opportunity to actually see these works in real life, and no catalogue essay, but each of the artists featured in this grouping have provided quotes on the influence of the late founder of Studio Glass on his or her work and career. The quotes range from the personal to the generic, depending on the level of familiarity each artist had with Littleton.

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