On Saturday, October 10, the owners of Philadelphia’s Silica Galleries, which specializes in flameworked glass sculpture, will open a high-end flameworked glass pipe exhibition space in New York City. Located in the heart of the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, Easy Street Gallery will seek “to present pipe making in a new light, featuring a [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 7, 2009
Opening: A high-end borosilicate pipe gallery seeks to elevate the form in New York City hipster enclave
October 4, 2009
A conversation with the owner of a brand-new art and design gallery in Brooklyn that features work in glass
Last March, Michele Casciolo opened her new design showroom called Magasin Totale in a former industrial building that has been turned into a mix of artist studios and art and design galleries in the Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood known as DUMBO. In her 7th floor showroom, Casciolo meets with interior designers, architects, and individual collectors by [...]
October 2, 2009
14 years after BAGI started it all, glass pumpkin madness reaches fever pitch
Watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” on television used to be a childhood October ritual, depending on one’s age. Now the great pumpkin has come to the Corning Museum of Glass in a very literal sense, with its exhibition of the “world’s largest” blown-glass pumpkin, a cheery, mottled monster with a circumference of more [...]
October 1, 2009
Seen: Devin Burgess is ready for his close-up at Penland resident exhibition
Tomorrow night, Penland School of Crafts hosts an opening reception for “The Barns: 2009,” its showcase exhibition of seven artists-in-residence working in ceramics, wood, metal, or glass, who will be celebrated for the progress they’ve made during one of the most important residencies available to artists working in craft media. Among the standouts are the [...]
