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The Museum of Arts and Design Is Accepting Applications for Its 2021 Burke Prize

by Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) April 21, 2020April 21, 2020

The Burke Prize awards $50,000 to an artist working in a world of expanded media. Entries are due by May 31, 2020.

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The World of Glass Proves Less Fragile Than Ever

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 27, 2019October 2, 2019

A showcase of contemporary art and craft made of glass demonstrates how this millennia-old material continues to adapt effortlessly to our own era.

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See Vibrant Works of Contemporary Glass From Around the World

by Corning Museum of Glass June 12, 2019June 18, 2019

New Glass Now is on view at The Corning Museum of Glass through January 5, 2020.

Posted inArt

A Floating Glass Art Studio’s Four-Month Journey Around New York State

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 7, 2018June 7, 2018

The Corning Museum of Glass’s GlassBarge is traveling the New York waterways from Brooklyn to the Finger Lakes, offering free demonstrations of glassblowing.

Posted inHistory

A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 27, 2017October 6, 2022

In 1903, an inventor patented a method of preserving corpses in glass, one of a number of radical inventions that has sought to resist death’s decay.

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Decoding a Tiffany Glassmaker’s Secret Notebook

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 9, 2017May 9, 2017

The small leather-bound book was used by Tiffany Studios glassmaker Leslie Nash to record recipes, designs, and personal notes on glass chemistry.

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Glimpsing the Evolution of Glass Lenses in Three Centuries of Microscopes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 14, 2016

CORNING, NY — To closely inspect the evolution of the microscope, the Corning Museum of Glass is highlighting the lens-making behind the optical tool.

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19th-Century Glass Models that Reflect Our Changing Ocean

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 30, 2016August 30, 2016

CORNING, NY — The 19th-century glass models of marine invertebrates created by father-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka were intended to capture as accurately as possible the delicate bodies of underwater creatures.

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Discovering the Secrets of Venetian Glass

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 30, 2016April 1, 2016

The finest glassware of the Renaissance was made by artisans on the Murano island in Venice, and their techniques were intensely guarded.

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A 19th-Century Glass Menagerie of Sea Creatures Gets a Retrospective

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 2, 2015June 5, 2015

Melting glass over a flame, the 19th-century Czech father-and-son team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka replicated in fragile detail specimens of the natural world.

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World’s Largest Space for Contemporary Glass Art Lets in the Light

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 20, 2015March 25, 2015

CORNING, NY — This Friday, a luminous new wing of the Corning Museum of Glass opens for the display of contemporary glass art and its molten creation.

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Largest Contemporary Glass Museum to Open in Upstate NY

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 6, 2012June 11, 2012

The Corning Museum of Glass has unveiled plans to expand their museum with a 100,000-square-foot expansion designed by architect Thomas Phifer and Partners, the team who completed the award-winning North Carolina Museum of Art that was described by one architectural writer as a “museum building that strives to nearly disappear.”

Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments
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Yale University Press Presents The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments

Kelly Grovier discusses his book on the history of pigments in a new podcast episode, making the case for how myths and science can enrich how we experience art.

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