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Glenn Adamson

Glenn Adamson is currently a senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, and the editor-at-large of The Magazine Antiques. A curator and theorist who works across the fields of design, craft, and contemporary art, he was also a former director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. His publications include Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan Wilson); Invention of Craft (2013); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011); The Craft Reader (2010); and Thinking Through Craft (2007).

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The Noguchi Museum Can Exist Without Visitors

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson September 10, 2020November 5, 2020

The films of Distance Noguchi show the empty museum’s famous sculpture garden faintly stirred by the wind, the gentle splash of a fountain, or the chance arrival of a bird.

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Getting to Noh: Myths of Japanese Minimalism

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson May 31, 2020June 21, 2020

The stereotype of Japan as a “less-is-more” kind of country is, in fact, quite misleading.

Thomas Barger, "Love Me, Protect Me Chair" (2018), paper pulp, plywood, two wooden chairs, polyurethane, and paint, 44 x 60 x 38 in
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A Young Designer’s Pulpy and Surprisingly Personal Furniture

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson March 22, 2018May 26, 2020

Thomas Barger, whose material of choice is colorful paper pulp, is part of a generation of adventurous furniture designers reshaping their field in the US.

Katherine Westphal portrait for her 1993 exhibition at browngrotta arts (photo by Tom Grotta, courtesy of browngrotta arts)
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Katherine Westphal, Fiber Art Pioneer, Dies at 99

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson March 16, 2018May 26, 2020

In a career that kept her on the move for many years, Westphal was endlessly curious and creative, working in ceramics, quilting, fiber, Xerox, and wearable art.

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A Shrewd Designer Balances Craft and Commerce

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson February 12, 2018May 26, 2020

The artisanal has always been seen as a counterweight to the industrial. Both appear in the work of Patricia Urquiola.

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The Seamless Weaving of Fine Arts with Crafts

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson December 18, 2017May 26, 2020

Anissa Mack uses the county craft fair as inspiration, context, and content.

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Weaving Together the Story of a Forgotten Pop Artist and Her Rugs

Avatar photo by Glenn Adamson April 5, 2017June 13, 2022

In the annals of overlooked artists, Dorothy Grebenak is an extreme case.

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