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URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/centering-toshiko-takaezu-glenn-
 adamson-with-ian-mcdonald-laura-mott/
SUMMARY:Centering Toshiko Takaezu: Glenn Adamson in Conversation with Ian M
 cDonald and Laura Mott
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book signing and presentation by Glenn Adamson\, 
 lauded craft expert and co-curator of Toshiko Tazaezu: Worlds Within\, fol
 lowed by a conversation with Ian McDonald\, Artist in Residence\, Departme
 nt of Ceramics and Cranbrook Academy of Art and Laura Mott\, Chief Curator
 \, Cranbrook Art Museum.  \n\nRSVP FOR THE EVENT HERE\n\n“She knew well
  that her work could mean many things\, depending on a viewer’s readines
 s to see it. Weighty in the hands or on the floor\, her ceramics are nonet
 heless shapeshifters. Wet the surface\, and unexpected colors shine forth.
  Pass your fingers over the glaze\, cool to the touch\, and you can actual
 ly feel the break where one color slides into another —or are you imagin
 ing it? Shake the piece gently\, and they murmur back indecipherably. Wait
  for the light to change\, morning to afternoon\, and it’s as if a new a
 rtwork has entered the room. Executed with all-in commitment of a true act
 ion painter\, her works are nebulous\, inviting\, inviting our interpretat
 ion but never fully ratifying it.”   \n\n- Glenn Adamson (Adamson\, 2
 024\, pp. 33-34 )  \n\nBook signing will be at 6pm. The talk will begin 
 at 6:30pm.\n\nGlenn Adamson is a curator\, writer and historian based in N
 ew York and London. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts 
 and Design and Head of Research at the V&amp\;A.  \n\nDr. Adamson’s pu
 blications include Thinking Through Craft (2007)\; The Craft Reader (2010)
 \; Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011\, with Jane Pavitt)\; The Inv
 ention of Craft (2013)\; Art in the Making (2016\, with Julia Bryan-Wilson
 )\; Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018)\; Objects: US
 A 2020\; and Craft: An American History (2021). His next book\, A Century 
 of Tomorrows\, was published by Bloomsbury in December 2024. \n\nDr. Adam
 son is Artistic Director for Design Doha\, a new biennial for Qatar (forth
 coming in 2024)\; curator at large for the Vitra Design Museum\; and edito
 r of Material Intelligence\, a quarterly online journal published by the C
 hipstone Foundation. 
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CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures + Talks,Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
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