For students and collectors - Current and Coming - Corning Museum of Glass' seminar on Bohemian, Czech art glass - Brief Article

Magazine Antiques, Oct, 2002 by Allison Eckardt Ledes

Now in its forty-first year, the annual seminar of the Coming Museum of Glass takes place from October 16 through 19 in Corning, New York. This year it focuses on Bohemian and Czech glass of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several of the speakers, who are drawn from Europe and the United States, will present new information, particularly on the subject of early twentieth-century Czech glass and on the influence of the Bohemian glasshouses of the nineteenth century. There will be demonstrations of glassmaking techniques, including engraving and painting on glass. For more information, contact Louise Maio at the museum by telephone (607-974-4084) or by e-mail (maiolm@cmog.org).

The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, now in its twenty-first year, is being held at the Festival Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center between October 23 and 27. The show is a benefit for the Enterprise for High School Students, and each year includes a loan exhibition that is a wonderful complement to the antiques and works of art offered for sale. This year the loan exhibition is entitled The Great Divide: Folding Screens through the Centuries, and includes approximately thirty-five examples made in China, Japan, Europe, and the United States. The screens in the show date from the seventeenth century through the 1930s. Screens were made of a variety of materials and by a number of techniques: lacquer, japanning, painted leather, silk, and tapestries, all of which are represented in this exhibition.

The antiques show also sponsors a lecture series, and this year the speakers are Mark Aldbrook, Rodrigo Rivera Lake, Amin Jaffer, Michael Connors, Alexandra Stoddard, and Steven Platzman.

The catalogue of the show includes an essay about folding screens written by Mark Aldbrook. For information or to purchase tickets to the preview on October 23, or a copy of the catalogue readers should telephone 415-546-6661 or e-mail (sffas@ehss.org).