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.

Artist Monica Bonvicini with her sculpture at Studio Berengo, Murano. Venice’s 1000-year-old tradition of glassblowing is not an art stuck in the past. A new exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum ...

Their pieces, like the glass sculptures made by Salvador Dalí, are simultaneously droopy and stately, with patterns and colors that recall those of true Murano. Ms. Box, Mr. Dupont and Ms. Adachi ...

“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 ...

clear goblets to colourful opaque sculptures. It is both fragile and durable. If a drinking glass doesn’t shatter, it won’t wear out but can last a thousand years. Murano today embraces this ...

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, a cluster of islands in Venice, was the home of the world’s most celebrated glass makers for centuries. Initially learning glass making from Syria and other Middle Eastern artisans ...

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 ...