Editor's Letter
by Andrew Page
Hourglass
The monumental glass sculpture that remains one of London's best-kept secrets; a new wing to house the Palley Collection; taking stock of the not-so-bright future for the chandelier; the perfume bottle that resembles a Tom Patti work; the best new books.
Reviews
Kazuo Kadonga at Samuel Freeman Gallery, Santa Monica, California; Tim Edwards at Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia; Sherry Markovitz at Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington; Richard Remsen at Daniel Kany Gallery , Portland, Maine; Tim Whiten at Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto; David Taborn at the Robert Lehman Gallery at UrbanGlass, New York City; Group Exhibition at Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, Oregon; Acquaetta Williams at Tribes Gallery, New York City.
UrbanGlass News
Architect announced for expanded and improved UrbanGlass.
Reflection
BYOB: Reconsidering the bottle as building material.
by John Drury
Spectral Traces
Karen LaMonte discusses her ghostly and erotic cast-glass dresses.
by William V. Ganis
Forensics of the Imagination
Sifting for clues to the forgotten past, Ana Thiel takes imprints from the landscape to give cast glass form to the contours of history.
by Thierry de Beaumont
Freeze Frame
The sharply contrasting styles and personalities of William Morris and Lino Tagliapietra come to light in two new documentaries.
by Benjamin Lozovsky
Head-On
After decades of using glass as a medium to confront sociopolitical issues, is Clifford Rainey finally starting to mellow?
by Richard Speer
Encasement
Is this most conservative of glass art forms poised for a breakthrough, or will the paperweight remain a prisoner of collectors' narrow tastes? A search for the radical orb that can move the field forward from its historic high-water marks.
by Robin Rice