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 ...

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 ...

Born in the Italian town of Brescia, Roberto Beltrami grew up just a few hours’ drive from Venice and the island of Murano, world-famous for producing beautiful glassware. But it was nearly ...

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 ...

Fun Fact: Murano glassblowing was once so sacred that a law introduced in 1295 prevented glassmakers from leaving the island. Government officials feared local glassblowing secrets would be leaked ...