Winter Show Loan Exhibition

The New York Winter Antique Show will have 50 objects from the Corning Museum of Glass on display during the show, January 23 - February 1st. Click HERE for the full press release.

The Press release states:

The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass. The museum will display more than 50 exceptional objects at the 55th annual Winter Antiques Show. The loan exhibition will present works spanning four continents, more than three millennia, and the full range of artistic ingenuity and technical innovation in glass. Internationally renowned designer Massimo Vignelli / Vignelli Associates will create the installation for the Winter Antiques Show.

Arie L. Kopelman, Winter Antiques Show Committee Chairman, notes “we are proud to host his unprecedented exhibition from Corning—after seeing the fifty stellar objects in our loan exhibition, you’ll want to visit Corning to see the ‘other’ 45,000 pieces! It’s also a great complement to our two dozen exhibitors who include ancient through 1950s glass in their booths.”

The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from The Corning Museum of Glass includes an ancient Roman serving dish cover in the form of a fish, a glass allegory depicting Marie Antoinette and lamenting the demise of the aristocracy during the French Revolution, a covered tumbler that is one of the earliest known dated pieces of American glass, and a 1930s illuminated glass radiator. The exhibition also includes rare books and drawings from the Museum’s Rakow Research Library.

Complementing the loan exhibition, the museum will present a lecture series at the Winter Antiques Show; topics range from goblet-making techniques to 1950s glass.

About the museum. The Corning Museum of Glass is home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of glass from all periods and cultures, ranging from ancient Egyptian and Renaissance Venetian masterpieces to contemporary works by such masters as Dale Chihuly and Josiah McElheny. The Museum’s scientific and technological exhibits—featuring interactive installations, original film footage, and objects such as the world’s largest piece of cast glass and intricately faceted lighthouse lamps—tell the story of historic advancements and contemporary innovations in glass technology. Live glassblowing demonstration stages and a state-of-the-art glassmaking studio are just two of the museum’s many resources. An Artist-in-Residence program gives six artists annually the opportunity to expand their work and to master new techniques. The Museum also houses the Rakow Research Library, the world’s foremost library on the art and history of glass and glassmaking. Two scholarly publications, New Glass Review and Journal of Glass Studies, are published annually by the Museum. For more information, please visit www.cmog.org.