Latest Art: Glass News 
Art meets architecture (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)Lately, Nancy Gong has realized that creating glass art doesn't always involve handling glass. It can start with some serious brainstorming, which has taken her as far as Tunisia and as near as a little one-room schoolhouse in Penfield, where she lives. |
A touch of glass (The Suncoast News Pinellas)It was a work of art with an unusual invitation. "Touch me!" read a notice under Steven Tagg's fused glass landscape at the Tarpon Springs Art Association's show in December. The landscape won Best of Show honors in the event. |
Huge molten glass leak closes Wash. bottle plant (AP via Yahoo! Finance)A massive leak of molten glass, compared by firefighters to lava from a volcano, has shut down a new technologically advanced bottle factory that was built for the growing Pacific Northwest wine industry. |
Philip Glass film at Reel Music (The Oregonian)Peter KollanyiFew works of Philip Glass speak to me, but no one can deny his influence on music and commerce in the last 30 years. So, a quick reminder that the Northwest Film Center's Reel Music series will screen a... |
NY art sales to tempt buyers with attractive prices (Reuters via Yahoo! News)Old Master painting sales will try to lure choosier buyers this month with lower price estimates as Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses adjust to a global art market dulled by the financial crisis. |
Orlando Museum of Art Presents Therman Statom: Stories of the New World (Art Daily)View of the exhibition. Photo courtesy of Orlando Museum of Art. ORLANDO, FL.- A major figure in the contemporary Studio-Glass movement, Therman Statom, will create Stories of the New World at the Orlando Museum of Art , which will be showcased January 10, 2009 through May 10, 2009. Stories of the New World will transform 6,000 square feet of the Museum’s galleries into a visually dazzling ... |
New Islamic art museum in Qatar designed by architect I.M. Pei (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)DOHA, Qatar - Qatar's new Islamic art museum, designed by the famous American architect I.M. Pei, is the latest effort by this tiny, oil-rich nation to compete with rival Gulf countries for international attention and investment. |
Betty Freeman dies at 87; art philanthropist and photographer (Los Angeles Times)Freeman made more than 400 grants and commissions over the last four decades to help composers develop new works, pay for living expenses and subsidize performances and recordings. Betty Freeman, a fiercely independent philanthropist and photographer often described as a Medici for contemporary classical music, who supported a Who's Who of modern composers, including John Cage, Philip Glass, ... |
Metropolitan Muswum of Art's Enhanced American Wing Galleries Open May 19 (Art Daily)NEW YORK, NY.- When The Charles Engelhard Court—the grand, light-filled pavilion that has long served as the formal entrance to The Metropolitan Museum of Art 's American Wing—reopens this spring after two years of construction and renovation, the Museum's unparalleled collections of American sculpture, stained glass, architectural elements, silver, pewter, ceramics, glass, and jewelry will ... |
Huge molten glass leak closes Kalama, Wash. bottle plant (The Oregonian)A massive leak of molten glass, compared by firefighters to lava from a volcano, has shut down a new technologically advanced bottle factory that was built for the growing Pacific Northwest wine industry. Firefighters sprayed about 1 million gallons of... |
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