Luckily, the main work was completed before the gas price spike (smaller sculptures have been affected). “The complexity and difficulty of [Murano glass] production is very moving,” he added.

“No! it's not about creating cute little beauty pieces” Ai Weiwei tells The Art Newspaper from his home in Lisbon. He’s referring to his monumental glass work The Human Comedy—one of the ...

But a major show in Venice is putting the artist’s first-ever sculptures in glass centre stage, following a three-year project conceived in Murano. As Ai said of the material, ‘Glass, a special ...

Murano is an island located just north of ... You can feel this history in the way the interior is decorated, with beautiful glass sculptures on end tables, glass art on the walls, and magnificent ...

As Sulka inspected the piece, it became clear to her that it was, in fact, a true piece of Venini Murano glass. Judging by a two-lined mark on the underside, coupled with the piece's imperfections ...

At one time, Murano was the global leader in glassmaking, renowned for unparalleled quality, style, and innovation, including the invention of “cristallo,” clear glass. But over its 700-year ...

which features its biggest Murano glass butterfly yet. The 3D glass butterfly was sourced from Murano, Italy, where "master glassmakers honour a centuries-old process that produces the colours and ...