Monthly Archives: May 2009
Mark Peiser explores the poetry of astronomy and the search for meaning
In a bold new body of work, North Carolina-based Mark Peiser honors the technological breakthroughs of Corning engineers who created the largest cast-glass object ever made in the 1930s. His new sculpture Sanctuary (2009) is also a meditation on the … Continue reading
Following up its Chihuly exhibit, the Phipps Botanical Gardens showcases flameworked sculpture
After the success of the 2007 exhibition “Chihuly at Phipps: Gardens & Glass,” the Pittsburgh botanical garden has invited Hans Godo Fräbel, a German-born flameworker, to install sculpture in and around its horticultural displays and greenhouses. Continue reading
Filed under Exhibition
Is flash giving way to substance in a “recalibrated” contemporary art market?
It wasn’t long ago, September 2008 to be precise, that the prices for work by big-name contemporary artists seemed to maintain their stratospheric heights and defy the crashing financial markets, most famously in Damien Hirst’s Sotheby’s sale in London that … Continue reading
Filed under Art Market, News
Hot off the presses
The new issue of GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly will be on newsstands on June 1. Inside, feature articles on the established and the up-and-coming. Continue reading
Filed under Print Edition
