We’ve said it before: It takes a team to pull off the installation of a gallery space this large. This week, the work continued in the Contemporary Art + Design Wing with special attention paid to one piece: Endeavor, by … Read more →
Only 52 more days until you can visit Fuji in the new Contemporary Art + Design Wing. Fuji HG31119, Lino Tagliapietra, Seattle, WA, 2011. Purchased with funds from Richard and Judith Sphon and the F. M. Kirby Foundation. 2011.4.63.
The acclaimed Venetian glassblower Lino Tagliapietra created this large spherical sculpture at a public demonstration on March 14, 2014, during the symposium on archeology and ancient and Islamic glass held at the Museum in honor of the Museum’s former director … Read more →
We recently polled our Facebook fans to see if you could guess between two objects which was an antiquity and which was a contemporary glass piece. For those who guessed that the two red glass vessels were contemporary – you’re … Read more →