Los Angeles-based mixed-media ceramic artist Jenny Hata Blumenfield helps us reconsider the place of ceramics and pottery in contemporary art. ‘I see clay as having the widest range of expression,’ she explains. ‘By working with it the way that I do, I hope that steadily people will start to receive this idea of ceramics or […]
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Decorative Arts and Design June 8 – 13, 2019
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This haniwa clay model of a horse from 6th-century Japan would have been buried in a tomb on ‘a very grand scale’, explains Japanese Art specialist Mark Hinton. Find out more at The decoration and detailing suggest it would have been made for a ‘very high-ranking person’, with tombs for such people often being ‘similar
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International Head of Antiquities G. Max Bernheimer surveys some magnificent Greek vases. For a civilisation that disappeared 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greeks left a great deal behind: philosophy, democracy, poetry, architecture, and an extensive corpus of vases, which comprise a large part of the archaeological record. Their enduring popularity is reflected in the breadth
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