vol.61 no.3 June / July 2001
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Current Issue

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COLLECTORS BARBARA-ROSE AND ED OKUN
For the Okuns, it isn't just about having objects, it's how the objects relate to the room and to one another.
by Candelora Versace

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DONALD FORTESCUE
Recently exhibited "empty vessels" by this artist and teacher hold a mirror up to the studio woodworking field, as if to point out the good and the bad existing within it.
by Glenn Adamson

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TEXTILE ART FROM SOUTHERN APPALACHIA: THE QUIET WORK OF WOMEN
A traveling exhibition and companion book celebrate the handwoven coverlet.

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XAVIER TOUBES
As the artistic director of the European Ceramics Work Centre in the 1990s, Toubes helped organize and administer that experimental venue. Now he's applying his artistic insights and technical expertise as a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. by Polly Ullrich

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STEPHEN ROLFE POWELL
The Kentucky glass artist makes vessels, round and bulbous, curvaceous and ribald, replete with generous intimations of the sensuality of the human body. by James Yood


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JEWELS OF MIND AND MENTALITY:
50 YEARS OF AVANT-GARDE DUTCH JEWELRY

An approach to design in which form and material are determined by the concept of the piece has driven the art jewelry field in the Netherlands for the past five decades. by Arline M. Fisch


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Craft World

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MUSEUM COLLECTION
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. by Joyce Lovelace

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COMMISSIONS

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BOOKS

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PORTFOLIO
Rik Allen, Eunjung Park, Kimberly Sotelo, Teresa Paschke

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CALENDAR

82

REUBEN NAKIAN
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY. Reviewed by Barry Schwabsky

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GALLERY

90

ROBERT WINOKUR
Helen Drutt, Philadelphia, PA. Reviewed by Robin Rice


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Cover:
STEPHEN ROLFE POWELL-Pyronic Marilyn Monroe, 2000, detail, blown glass, 53 by 22 1/2 by 11 1/2 inches.
Story on page 66.