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11 July Blaschka Glass: The Summer 2010 issue of the Tufts Magazine (Tufts University) has a beautifully illustrated article about a collection of glass models of marine invertebrates made by the Blaschkas and donated to the university by none other than P.T. Barnum. There is an on-line version of the article.

06 July Death of Jan Fisar: We are sorry to report the death of Jan Fisar, one of the founders of Czech contemporary glass. No English language obituary or memorial is yet available; for his biography, see the .pdf personal data posted at Glasgalerie Hittfield.

17 June Thomas Buechner Dies: Buechner, a pioneer of the American studio glass movement, was the founding director of the Corning Museum of Glass (and the director again thirteen years later), the founder of the New Glass Review, and the Director of the Brooklyn Museum. An excellent memorial in The Glass Quarterly Hot Sheet is here.

A great interview with collectors Anna and Joe Mendel on the occasion of the exhibition of their collection at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art is in the May 15 issue of the Montreal Gazette. Link to it here.

last update on 11 july 2010

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