OPENING: Brooklyn exhibition challenges artists to merge textiles and glass

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, New Work, Opening

Benjamin Franklin invented the glass armonica, an instrument made of glass bowls on a rotating dowel. courtesy: wah center

Monday November 28, 2011 | by ktmo5678

An architect and painter collaborate on a glass public art project in Oklahoma City

FILED UNDER: New Work, Public Art

This glass public art sculpture was the result of a collaboration between an architect and a painter.

Monday November 14, 2011 | by ktmo5678

OPENING: Jeff Zimmerman’s new work at New York’s R 20th Century gallery

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, Opening

New work by Jeff Zimmerman includes this uinque sculpture in fluorescent hand-blown glass. photo: sherry griffin

Friday November 11, 2011 | by ktmo5678

Call For Entries: A new international glass prize seeks submissions

FILED UNDER: Award, Call for Submissions

The exterior of the GlazenHuis in Lommel, Belgium, is itself a work of striking glass design. photo: liesbeth gesels

Thursday November 10, 2011 | by ktmo5678

Red Dot Report: SOFA CHICAGO 2011

FILED UNDER: Art Market, New Work, News

A scene from SOFA CHICAGO 2011, with Susan Taylor Glasgow's Communal Nest installation visible on the left.

Sunday November 6, 2011 | by ktmo5678

Red Dot Report: What’s sold at SOFA CHICAGO 2011

FILED UNDER: Uncategorized

Three works by Ruth Oliphant. L: Downtown, $3,520. M: Straight Ahead, $3,520. R: 42nd Floor, $3,520.

Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by ktmo5678

Helen Brough Artist Studio

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Helen Brough; “Barcelona;” 2006; 5 layers painted glass; 30 × 22 × 25 cm; plinth: 121 × 22 × 25 cm; photo courtesy of the artist

Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by ktmo5678

OPENING: Czech Center offers “Invitation” to examine glass tradition and innovation

FILED UNDER: Exhibition

Beginning April 18th, The Czech Center based in New York will open a new glass exhibition entitled “Invitation.” This exhibit asks us to scrutinize the relationship between tradition and innovation within the glass world by displaying the works of both sixty and six years ago, of abroad and near locations, of experienced and new artists, of functionality and design – and exploring their complex intersections.

Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by ktmo5678

Half of Western Canada’s Bee Kingdom lands at the Berlin Glas hive

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Bee Kingdom from left to right: Tim Belliveau, Philip Bandura, Kai Georg Scholefield, Ryan Marsh Fairweather; photo courtesy: www.beekingdom.ca

Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by ktmo5678

Paperweights Defence in the Form of $40,000 bid

FILED UNDER: Uncategorized

In response to a recent bout of attacks on the esteemed Arthur Rubloff Paperweight Collection, there have been as many or more champions of the centuries-old form singing its praises. In the Chicago Sun Times, columnist Mark Brown details perhaps the highest form of praise a community can bestow – vying to be in first in line to shell out $40,000.