HOLIDAY SALE: For a limited time only, gift subscriptions to GLASS are half off

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This winter, share the gift of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly with friends and family. Give the latest news from the field, lavish photography of stunning new sculptures, and critical insights into the most important artwork in the medium of glass by purchasing a gift subscription at an exceptionally low price. Existing subscribers can purchase a gift subscription of GLASS for only $17 (for U.S. subscriptions only) — half the standard rate.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 | by Andrew Page

GLASS magazine awarded National Endowment for the Arts funding for 2016

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The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly $15,000 for 2016, part of $27.7 million in arts funding the government agency is distributing to 1,126 projects across the nation next year under its "Art Works" major funding category. The Art Works program has a "focus on the creation of work and presentation of both new and existing work, lifelong learning in the arts, and public engagement with the arts through 13 arts disciplines or fields," according to the NEA announcement.

Tuesday November 24, 2015 | by Andrew Page

Hot Off the Presses: GLASS #141, Winter 2015-16

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The Winter 2015-16 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#141) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes this week. On the cover is a detail of an exuberant work by Tony Cragg, which was exhibited as part of the fourth iteration of Glasstress, a collateral exhibition at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Cragg is one of more than 150 contemporary artists who have taken Adriano Berengo up on the offer to come to his Murano studios to realize work in glass with the assistance of a team of highly skilled glass masters. Cragg exhibited work at the very first Glastress in 2009, his participation giving the event added prestige as he also represented his native Britain in the main Venice Biennale in 1988. Cragg chooses materials for their ability to behave according to a set of rules and processes, building up cross sections into sculptures that vibrate with rotational energy, which is especially appropriate for working with glass, something he's done since his early works with found objects. Cragg's untitled work on the cover is a fitting image for the new issue which features artists who embrace the material's unique properties and process in service of very different visions.

Monday September 14, 2015 | by Annette Rose-Shapiro

In Memoriam: John Perreault (1937-2015)

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John Perreault, the former executive director of UrbanGlass, died on September 6, 2015. from complications of gastrointestinal surgery. He was 78 years old. From 1993 to 1995, Perreault served as artistic director of UrbanGlass, and was appointed executive director in 1995, a position which he maintained until 2002. He was also the curator of the Robert Lehman Gallery at UrbanGlass, as well as the editor of GLASS Quarterly magazine. Perreault was a poet and a painter, but was probably best known as the chief art critic for the Village Voice and SoHo Weekly News, as well as a regular contributor to ARTnews. He was also senior curator at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on State Island, as well as the Everson Museum and the American Craft Museum. Perreault championed many art movements from feminist art to realism, pattern and decoration movement art and performance art. An early translator of conceptual art, his reviews were legendary, and thankfully devoid of “art speak.”

Thursday August 27, 2015 | by Andrew Page

Hot Off the Presses: GLASS #140, Fall 2015

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The Fall 2015 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#140) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes over the next few days. On the cover is a work by French installation artist Baptiste Debombourg, a room with massive windows collapsing inward. For her article, contributing editor Victoria Josslin presents a mediation on Debombourg’s grand catastrophe in Aerial (a 2012 site-specific installation at the Brauweiler Abbey near Cologne, Germany), considering the scene as a frozen moment just after the impact of some cataclysmic explosion outside.

Monday June 1, 2015 | by Andrew Page

HOT OF THE PRESSES: Glass #139, Summer 2015

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The Summer 2015 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#139) is hitting newsstands and subscriber mailboxes. It comes bundled with the just-published 2015 edition of New Glass Review, a special subscriber bonus at no additonal charge (It is also available at select newsstands, but at a higher cover price). On the cover is a striking work by sculptor Rachel Owens, who employs glass for the same light-mediating qualities that draw so many sculptors. But she is especially focused on its metaphoric resonance. She began to notice broken green glass on the sidewalks of her Greenpoint, Brooklyn, neighborhood shortly after moving to New York after earning an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Keeping its sharp edges intact and giving it shape using a resin casting process, she has made it a primary material in her work, tapping into its associations of consumption and violence—two forces she zeroes in on in her critique of the excesses of our culture of rampant consumerism and its dire implications for the natural world. An in-depth conversation with Owens explores the importance of her investment in making her own work, which brings together concept and material for a powerful, multi-layered effect.

GLASS 133, Winter 2013 - 14

Tuesday December 17, 2013 | by Andrew Page

Hot off the Presses: GLASS 133, Winter 2013 - 14

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The Winter 2013 - 14 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly (#133) hit newsstands and subscriber mailboxes earlier this month. On the cover is Kazushi Nakada's 2005 work De-Fragment from his "Study Period" series. Inside, GLASS editor Andrew Page discusses Nakada's geographic and artistic journey from his native Japan to Europe, where he is currently a senior lecturer at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland. For Nakada, who grew up in a family of ceramicists in Japan, the move to glass was a break with his lineage, but one undertaken for his sense of glass as a material with global reach. As he says in the interview: "Ceramics was always a local world. ... I thought that through these glass works, I could connect to the larger world."

Monday September 2, 2013 | by Andrew Page

Hot Off the Presses: GLASS #132, Fall 2013

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The Fall 2013 edition of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly(#132) has hit newsstands and subscriber mailboxes over then past few days. On the cover is Dan Clayman’s work Tonal Shift(2010). Assessing the artist’s work, critic Robin Rice writes: “Daniel Clayman’s sculpture is quintessentially of this young century, but it grows out of the intersection of three 20th-century phenomena: the Studio Glass movement, minimalism, and technology.” Quite possibly the most refined glass sculptors working in the material, Clayman’s work is a quest to engage the essence of light itself.

Sunday March 3, 2013 | by Andrew Page

Hot Off the Presses: GLASS #130, Spring 2013

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GLASS #130, Spring 2013

Wednesday December 5, 2012 | by Shirin Borthwick

Richard Marquis to receive a career retrospective at The Corning Museum of Glass in February

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Richard Marquis, Crazy Quilt Teapot #38, 1980. Fused and blown murine. H 4 1/4 in. collection: corning museum of glass

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