A Clear View
by Karen S. Chambers
"Good art, regardless of the medium, attracts critical attention."
Issue 26 | Winter
Letters
Letters from readers.
New Work in New Work
New works by Douglas Navarra, Jonathan Perlowsky, Frank Close, Mary Fussell, Concetta Mason, Steve Tobin, Victoria Rivers, Patrick Wadley, Jane Bruce, and Daniel Rothenfeld.
Joep Nicolas: Retreat in the Desert
by Claire Nicolas White
Discussion of the life of glass artist Joep Nicolas by his daughter.
Glass Happenings
by Evelyn Grampp
The happenings in the glass art world in 1986.
Reviews
by Margaret Richardson, Karen S. Chambers, Evelyn Grampp, Sandra A. Milner, Saunthy Singh, Susan Napack, Shirley Morriss, Douglas Navarra, Sylvia Netzer.
Their World/Our World by Liz Quantock and Ronnie Wolf, Christopher Sproat's exhibition at Better Stoler Gallery, Stephen Dee Edwards' sculptures at Heller Gallery, New Stone Vessels by Curtiss Brock, Science Imitates Art by Taro Suzuki, The Mindscape Bowls by Steve Tobin, Paper Weights exhibition at Gallery Nilsson, Contemporary Paperweights exhibition at Jorice Art Glass, Glass Sculpture by Robert Willson, Glass Works exhibition at Mario Villa Gallery, Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art exhibition at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Features
Post Historical: Threat or Seduction?
by William Warmus
Works of art becoming parts of history.
Toward A Stained Glass Aesthetic
by Robert Kehlmann
On the spirituality of stained glass.
Can We Pass Over the Revolution in Silence
by Michael Zdzislaw Karkulowski
"Glass is the future of painting, of sculpture, and one could even say, that the future of all art depends on glass."
Gallery Views: Critical and Commercial
by Ferdinand Hampson, Douglas Heller and Ruth Summers
Discussion of Habatat Galleries, Heller Gallery, and Kurland/Summers Gallery
Prescription for the Eye
by Paul Hollister
The evaluation of glass art with the eye.
An American and a European View of the Coburger Glaspreis
by Elly Sherman and Daniela Fritsch
On the exhibit of the Second Coburg Glass Prize for Modern Studio Glass in Europe.
Haystack: The Thrill of it All
by Karen S. Chambers
The classes held at Haystack's 1986 session.