GLASS Quarterly

Editor's Letter
by Andrew Page

Hourglass
The Corning Museum's new director discusses the expanding institution's future plans; a new Manhattan design boutique fuses organic forms with a minimalist sensibility at an affordable price point; Beth Lipman is awarded a $50,000 fellowship; Ann Wolff wins the European Culture Prize; Tim Close resigns as executive director of the Museum of Glass, for the 50th anniversary of Studio Glass; the Toledo Museum of Art rebuilds a historic furnace.

Reviews
Joel Berman, Warren Carther, Jacqueline Metz & Nancy Chew, and Ione Thorkelsson at the Winnipeg International Airport in Manitoba, Canada; group exhibition at Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon; Paul Stankard and John Miller at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington.

UrbanGlass News
The "35 for 35" fund-raising auction celebrates UrbanGlass's 35th anniversary, the annual MFA show celebrates new talent; UrbanGlass at SOFA New York to feature the artwork of Victoria Calabro.

Reflection
Museums Take on a 50-Year Milestone
by Katharine Morales

The Lion in Winter
Now in his early 70s, Dale Chihuly abandons exuberant color for a more reflective mood.
by James Yood

Color Coded
Beverly Fishman, an influential artist who leads the painting program at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, takes her explorations of technology and the human body into the material of glass.
by Grace Duggan

Raw Material
Outsider artists incorporate found glass into their work for its transformative properties, sometimes with bracing results.
by John Drury

Reflect: Refract: Redact
Emerging artist Andrew Erdos uses dystopian silvered-glass objects, blown by hand and animated by the light from video screens, to create an unsettling collision of nature and technology that confounds a clear reading of any of its discreet elements.
by Ruth Reader