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A Legacy in Clay: The Ceramics of Pablo Picasso in Return to Earth

Presented September 21, 2013. 'Pablo Picasso: Life with Art' – Dakin Hart, Senior Curator, The Noguchi Museum, New York In this presentation Dakin Hart explores Picasso’s transition to ceramic practice after World War Two. Tracing the personal, social and political factors which lead to Picasso’s desire to create objects which merged both sculpture and painting […]

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Icheon Master Hand: Yo Se Yeon

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The American Museum of Ceramic Art is honored to present ICHEON: Reviving the Korean Ceramics tradition, an unprecedented exhibition organized by Icheon, South Korea. Icheon has a history of ceramic culture that began over 5000 years ago and has a reputation for its internationally renowned ceramics cultural events. Now Icheon has reached out to an

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Icheon Master Hand: Lee Hyuang Gu

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Looking Back at Hungate – Medieval Pottery

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In this video, Dr Ailsa Mainman gives a talk on the different types of pottery found during the Hungate excavations. From the autumn of 2006 to the end of 2011 a team from York Archaeological Trust investigated the archaeology of the Hungate area of York, as part of the regeneration of an often overlooked corner

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World of Wedgwood Museum

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Our Education Officer, Olivia, talks about the Museum and the Education Programme at World of Wedgwood.

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Wayne Highby on Steven Young Lee—Connections: Renwick Gallery

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Taken by the transgressive nature of Steven Young Lee’s porcelain “Vase with Landscape and Dinosaurs," ceramic artist Wayne Highby appreciates that it challenges and questions the traditional vessel, porcelain history, and also traditional ceramic art.

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Conservation of Robert Arneson’s “Alice House Wall,” 1967

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In preparation to move to the new museum at 2 Columbus Circle, the Museum of Arts and Design has sent Robert Arneson's "Alice House Wall," 1967, to the conservator to restore it to it's original condition. Gift of the Johnson Wax Company, through the American Craft Council, 1977. The restoration of Alice House Wall was

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Robert Arneson’s controversial portrait of Mayor Moscone

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SFMOMA curator Gary Garrels tells the story of Robert Arneson's infamous portrait of former San Francisco mayor George Moscone.

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Huntington Museum of Art presents Randy Johnston

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Walter Gropius Masters Workshop Series Spring 2012, Randy Johnston

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Peter Voulkos at Archie Bray, 1955

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Peter Voulkos at Archie Bray, 1955, from “Peter Voulkos Working,” produced by Susan Fanshel and Ann Voulkos, and distributed by Documentary Educational Resources. Digital video, TRT 00:08:11 Photography by Maxime Blackmer This video has no sound.

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