Craig Fisher
Get Rid, 2007
Fabric, Lycra, sequins
Rokeby, London

In a typical Craig Fisher artwork at the London gallery, Rokeby, weapons of varying sizes and types are formally laid out in what appears to be a weapons amnesty display. Careful inspection reveals that every piece is meticulously crafted from fibrous materials and fine fabrics including […]

Sun Koo Yuh
Let Me See, 2006
Porcelain, glazed, 20×12×12″
Nancy Margolis Gallery, NY

Don’t miss Sun Koo Yuh’s first New York solo exhibition, Sculpture and Drawings, at Nancy Margolis Gallery, 523 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, on view only through Saturday, March 3rd. Nancy Margolis will represent Yuh’s totemic porcelain sculptures of gorgonian […]

Wisteria Table Lamp
Tiffany Studios, NY, NY 1899-1920
Leaded glass, bronze
Gift of Dr. Egon Neustadt
A New Light on Tiffany
New-York Historical Society

A New Light On Tiffany: Clara Driscoll And The Tiffany Girls on view at New-York Historical Society through May 28 (www.nyhistory.org), debunks the presumption that the lamps, windows, and other luxury objects produced by […]

Marc Newson
Lockheed Lounge, 1986
Sebastian & Barquet,
New York, NY
Offered at 2.5 Million

Design Star Newson Makes $75,000 Surfboard, $2.5 Million Sofa, By Carly Berwick, Feb. 6, bloomberg.com:
A 2,932-pound marble shelf poses a riddle at the heart of designer Marc Newson’s first solo show at Gagosian Gallery: What, if anything, divides art and design?
Traditionally, […]

Marcel Duchamp
Fountain, 1917
Porcelain
Pompidou Center, Paris, France

A self-proclaimed performance artist who attacked a urinal symbolic of the anarchic Dada movement with a hammer has three-month suspended sentence upheld by a French court Friday.
Known as “Fountain” and first exhibited by surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp in 1917, the ceramic urinal was slightly cracked by Pierre Pinoncelli’s […]

Miquel Barceló inside
Palma’s Seo Cathedral, Spain
Photo: Jaime Reina/AFP

By Giles Tremlett in Madrid
Friday February 2, 2007, The Guardian
Gothic architecture and contemporary art have become unlikely bedfellows in a Spanish cathedral after the artist Miquel Barceló was commissioned to cover one of its chapels with a vast ceramic tableau of cracked mud, dead fish and […]

Yoshiki Hishinuma
Casablanca, 2005
Machine knitted wool
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting
Museum of Arts & Design

Recent reviews of Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting at the Museum of Arts and Design in The New York Sun and The New York Times expressed different points of view:
PRO: “A Masterpiece in Thread” by Brice Brown, […]

Niels van Eijk
Bobbin Lace Lamp, 2002
Photo: Studio 4A/Peer van de Kruis

CON: “Flair and Flash, Not Frumpiness” by Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2007:
“Given the show’s title, some visitors will arrive wanting to know how needlework… has become such a cultural juggernaut, and how it might serve to […]

Angela Palmer
Inside Out
Fused glass sheets
Qvist Gallery, Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, London

Inside Out, an exhibition of body imaging sculptures in glass by Angela Palmer is on view through May 19 in Qvist Gallery of the Hunterian Museum at Royal College of Surgeons, London. Palmer’s work is largely based […]