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MOG Blogs Art is the exhibitions blog for the Museum of Glass. As a contemporary art museum, we present artwork that we hope raises questions and makes you think. This blog is a place to learn more and talk about what you’re thinking…
“In the end one loves one’s desire and not what is desired.” – Nietzsche
Last time in our discussion, we touched on the notion of how genre conventions can be manipulated by a skilled writer: our expectations, for example, of when the corpse will ‘surface’ in a mystery or detective novel (earlier rather than later) were [...]
Poe’s detective stories from the 1840s introduced the world to a new genre of fiction in which a crime-solving protagonist matches wits against both the criminal underworld as well as the reader, since part of the “narrative device” from which detective fiction derives its power involves the reader’s own attempts to “read between the lines” [...]
For a long list of book reviews for “City of Fallen Angels,” see http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/berendtjohn/cityoffallingangels#critics
Mostly, reviews were positive when the book came out in 2005.
Reading “Angels,” you become aware of how important the arts are to the life of a city — and at the same time, how the art scene can seem to be dominated [...]
June 24, 2008
A simple machine for narrative. By spinning the five rods and sliding the card up or down, various fragments are generated that can lead in surprising directions. The question becomes, ‘to what extent does the user become the author or narrator’?
Again, Berendt, p. 45: “Within days of my arrival, I began to consider [...]
The Museum’s exhibition Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass features the work of an artist who lives and works on Murano, the island of glassblowers in the Venetian lagoon.
This, summer, you are invited to read three books that are set in Lino’s world of Venice, Italy and join other Museum Members [...]
This summer, the action has been in the Hot Shop. The Summer Series of Visiting Artists is coming to a close, and it’s been a fun ride. Artists from the Pacific Northwest and overseas have worked with our Home Hot Shop Team to realize their ideas in glass. Several artists whose work [...]
It’s a celebration at MOG today and through the weekend. Visiting Artist Martin Blank is the the Hot Shop–he’s very dynamic, and there’s a huge crew making huge glass sculptures. It’s really fun to watch. There are break dancers, special hands-on art projects, the debut of the mobile hot shop outside on [...]
