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Sunday November 6, 2011 | by Andrew Page

Lino Tagliapietra 1999 panel sells for $300,000 at SOFA CHICAGO (Video)

FILED UNDER: Museums, New Work, News

Lino Tagliapietra, George, 1999. H 60 1/4, W 30, D 1 in. $300,000. courtesy: schantz galleries

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Tuesday November 1, 2011 | by Ruth Reader

OPENING: The story behind the Chrysler Museum of Art’s new glass studio

FILED UNDER: Events, Museums, News, Opening

Chrysler Glass Studio inhabits a former bank building. photo: ed pollard

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Friday October 28, 2011 | by Andrew Page

Susan Warner adds “curator” to her deputy director title at the Tacoma Museum of Glass

FILED UNDER: Museums, News

Deputy director Susan Warner will also serve as curator of the Tacoma, Washington, museum.

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Wednesday June 8, 2011 | by laguiri

Museum of Glass streams live feed of master glassblower Lino Tagliapietra at work in the hot shop

FILED UNDER: Events, Museums, News

Lino Tagliapietra surveys a piece at the Museum of Glass earlier this week. courtesy: Museum of Glass

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Tuesday May 24, 2011 | by Andrew Page

David Whitehouse stepping down as Corning Museum executive director, successor named

FILED UNDER: Museums, News

Karol Wight is leaving her position at the Getty to take the reins at The Corning Museum. courtesy: the corning museum of glass

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Wednesday April 20, 2011 | by Jason Gutierrez

OPENING: Four exhibits at the Dutch National Glass Museum in Leerdam

FILED UNDER: Exhibition, Museums

Kamagurka, The Man with the Clothes Inside, 2011. photo: ben deiman

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Friday March 18, 2011 | by Andrew Page

OPENING: Delicate glass drapery in Pipaluk Lake’s solo museum show refines (and redefines) slumping

FILED UNDER: Events, Exhibition, Museums

Pipaluk Lake, Framework, 2008. Glass, oxide, steel. (produced at the National Worshops for Arts and Crafts, Gammel Dok Pakhus, Copenhagen.) H 38 1/2, W 66, D 27 1/2 in. photo: anders sune berg

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Wednesday February 9, 2011 | by Alica Forneret

Call For Entries: Museum of Glass will repeat novel competition for 2011 fundraiser auction

FILED UNDER: Call for Submissions, Events, Museums, News

In 2010, Preston Singletary (at left) was awarded Best in Show and $10,000 by Museum of Glass board chair Randall Lert (at right), while museum executive director Timothy Close looks on. Singletary turned around and donated his award back to the museum.

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Wednesday January 19, 2011 | by Alica Forneret

Jeffrey Thomas appointed acting director of the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon

FILED UNDER: Museums, News

Jeffrey Thomas, the new acting director of the Museum of Contemporary Craft

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Tuesday December 4, 2001 | by Isabella Webbe

BOOK REPORT: Following recent exhibition, new Lino Tagliapietra catalog features fresh perspective o

FILED UNDER: Book Report, Exhibition, Museums, New Work

“Recent Work by Lino Tagliapietra” is available to buy on the Museum of Glass’s website. Hardcover, 96 pages, 70 color illustrations. 9.5“x10.75”. Published 2012, University of Washington Press. courtesy: http://www.museumofglassstore.org/

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