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In our February/March issue we decided to explore what we’ve come to call The Big Blur — that is the mixing and matching of mediums, materials and creative pursuits that many makers have been jumping into with increasing frequency over the last ten to 15 years. And in the last few weeks these discussions have picked up a considerable amount of steam. So it is only fitting that this Thursday, January 29th should find me at the Museum of Arts and Design having this very discussion—or a variation ...
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Last year the American Craft Council launched its inaugural Summer in the City Salon Series, a trio of current conversations on craft in our historic library… ...
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After three days at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore, assistant editor Christine Kaminsky made her way back to New York with a handful of hearty selections—both her favorites and the judges! If you were at the show, we want to know, did Christine miss anything? Take a look and tell us your Best of Show picks… ...
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After three days at the American Craft Council show in Baltimore, assistant editor Christine Kaminsky made her way back to New York with a handful of hearty selections—both her favorites and the judges! If you were at the show, we want to know, did Christine miss anything? Take a look and tell us your Best of Show picks… ...
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Don’t let dwindling daylight hours get you down, come check out the opening of this rare exhibition of jewelry and other unexpected objects and get the holidays started right. ...
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Don’t let dwindling daylight hours get you down, come check out the opening of this rare exhibition of jewelry and other unexpected objects and get the holidays started right. ...
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The third and final day of SOFA has come and with it many opinions on the success of the show. “This is the best SOFA’s been in years,” said one buyer who purchased a major Beth Lipman glass work from Heller Gallery . “I’ve been watching her a long time and when I found out she was pregnant with twins I knew I needed to buy now. She’s not going to have much time to do anything new during the next year.”
“SOFA’s as good if not better than past years,” said Gaby Naus ...
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Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice, C. 1600-1900By Mary McWilliams and David J. RoxburghForeword by Thomas W. LentzThe Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonYale University PressNew Haven, Connecticut$25http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=978030012632
Offering a rare glimpse into the rich world of calligraphy from the early modern period of Islamic culture, the book features exquisite examples of words serving double duty as art, with a particular emphasis on the highly specialized tools used to create these masterpieces. In the calligrapher's workshop, beauty begat beauty, as illustrated by the dozens of finely made and intricately decorated pens, pen boxes, ...
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If you’ve been observing the craft field for two decades or so, you might be forgiven for thinking that craft artists’ use of ready-made materials, or found objects, is not exactly new. ...
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If you happen to be in New York next Wednesday, be sure to come to the Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo and get a hefty dose of “Handmade Nation” in print and on screen… ...
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The time has finally come—this Saturday, September 26th, the Museum of Arts and Design will be opening its doors to its brand new light-filled, ceramic-encased building on Columbus Circle in New York City, offering the public the chance to see and experience more than they were ever able to before in the museum’s three different locations on West 53rd Street, where it had been located since its inception as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts (and later renamed the American Craft Museum) 52 years ago. We, however, got a sneak peak of the new building and it’s opening ...
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The gently falling snow had turned to freezing rain when I arrived in New Haven. What a a relief to step inside the Yale University Art Gallery, in its impeccably renovated Louis Kahn building and enter the tranquil time capsule that is “Tea Culture of Japan… ...
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The day’s political and global economic turmoil seemed a world away as Los Angeles’ design community turned out in force to welcome the Dutch-born, French-based designer Tord Boontje to Southern California for the unveiling of the new Artecnica showroom on San Vicente Boulevard.
Magic and whimsy were everywhere throughout the airy, loftlike space, filled this evening with Boontje’s fantastical creations. Many are the result of Artecnica’s innovative Design With Conscience project, which pairs iconic designers with artisans in impoverished areas around the globe to create functional, high-end products out of humble, recycled materials. Boontje’s enchanting ...
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I generally try to limit my participation in the wild world of social networking sites… ...
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The good folks over at Etsy have pulled together quite the crew to help spark some holiday gift ideas. Check out their virtual labs over the next week (including tonight, featuring Garth Johnson, from Extreme Craft) and feel free to let them know what’s on your mind… ...
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Nancy Margolis Gallery
Ferne Jacobs/Cheryl Thomas
New York, New York
September 11 – October 18, 2008
In the Thursday-night hubbub of the Chelsea art district, the inspired pairing of new works by two veteran California artists offered both quiet contemplation and intense aesthetic pleasure at the Nancy Margolis Gallery. For Ferne Jacobs, a pioneer in the use of basketry techniques to create sculptural works, the medium is fiber, specifically waxed linen thread. In a painstaking process—the four works in the exhibition took the artist over two years to complete—Jacobs wraps the threads four times around a cord to ...
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Say the word plastic, and what comes to mind? The everlasting (and environmentally disastrous) bag? Cheap manufactured products? Over at Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco, 75 jewelry artists are recasting one of our world's most maligned and ubiquitous materials.
Browse the image gallery for The Plastic Show, which opens October 1, and it's hard not to be dazzled by diversity. Based on the book 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs (Lark, 2009), the exhibition features work from artists using materials such as resin, epoxy, latex, rubber, and thermoplastics--and every variation of color and design therein. For Orange Dish, Sayumi Yokouchi used silk ...
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The Japan Society Gallery
New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters
New York, New York
October 4, 2008 - January 11, 2009
One glimpse of Kawana Tetsunori’s split-bamboo installation, Enclosure, majestically standing in a pond on an island in The Japan Society’s modernist lobby, leads you to believe that this is the beginning of an extraordinary presentation. It’s hard to imagine that anyone would be disappointed.
Joe Earle, the Society’s gallery director, curated the first exhibition inside or outside Japan devoted entirely to bamboo as a material for sculptural works of art. The 23 featured artists in the show draw ...
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Stanley Lechtzin: Five Decades 1959-2009Philadelphia Art Alliance251 South 18th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103(215) 545-4302www.philartalliance.orgMay 14th - July 26th, 2009Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm Career retrospectives of American studio jewelers are rare enough; retrospectives of important second-generation jewelers can be counted on one hand. The term “second generation” refers to those men and women who learned the craft under the first American modernist jewelers and smiths, people like Margaret Craver, John Prip and Ruth Pennington. The exhibition currently on view at the Philadelphia Art Alliance offers an extraordinary chance ...
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Over the weekend of June 13th I spent about 8 hours at the 4th Annual Renegade Craft Fair… ...
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