The Sins of Synchronicity? Frantisek Vizner, Blue Bowl, 1996 Sometimes subjects and themes just fall into place. I was invited by American Craft Magazine to write a review of the work of Frantisek Vizner (Czech, b.1936), on exhibit at the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York. I had been impressed with Vizner's work, and seeing a goodly collection of it I was not disappointed. His severe cast-glass art - vessels in … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2008
MOCA: WILL IT TANK?
MOCA Grand Avenue Museums for Sale Tongues are wagging, heads are shaking. It appears that the highly regarded Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is doomed. It has been running a deficit for six of the last eight years. It has been raiding its endowment. And now the plucked chickens, the headless fowls, have come home to roost. MOCA might not be able to go on. What I want to know is where was the MOCA's … [Read more...]