The Restless Recycler: Robert Ebendorf
For years, Robert Ebendorf was regarded as the chameleon of American jewelry. His artistic identity constantly changed: he had a surface...
Getting Serious About Getting Gray
Last spring, I created an online flap when I posted a comment on my Facebook page about “abstract crapola” at the Baltimore ACC show....
Sneaky Thinking: Glenn Adamson’s “The Invention of Craft”
Glenn Adamson’s new book of craft theory, “The Invention of Craft,” purports to be a revisionist history about the origins of...
Craftsmanship in the Age of Hot Glue and Tape
Recently I was asked to speak about craft to a small group of graduate printmaking students from Tyler School of Art. It was an...
Risatti’s Theory of Craft
Howard Risatti’s A Theory of Craft: Good intentions, terrible thinking. I remember the buzz about Howrad Risatti’s book back in 2006,...
Thoughts on the Coronation of Otto Kunzli
In the spring of 2013, I attended the opening of Otto Kunzli’s retrospective at the Neue Sammlung in Munich. Since the museum itself was...
Art Star 2012
I went to see the annual Art Star Craft Bazaar on May 13, 2012 just to see what’s doing in the alt-craft scene these days. I missed the...
Response to Kevin Murray
Kevin Murray’s recent AJF posting (“Nothing if Not Critical,” June 5, 2011) strikes me as earnest but naive. His essay concludes, “And...
Dull Green
Early in January 2011, Kimberly Voigt and I saw the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s Fourth Design Triennial, called “Why Design...
Loot
Last year, I participated in the Museum of Arts and Design’s annual jewelry sale/fundraiser, LOOT. They’ve being organizing LOOT for...