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...