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...iridescent surfaces and flowing shapes are attracting record museum throngs and stratospheric auction prices. "Masterworks" was the most popular exhibit ever at the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington; some 225,000 people visited it during its five-month stay. At Christie's a pond- lily glass table lamp brought $550,000, a record auction price for a Tiffany work...
...leaded-glass lamps displayed in "Masterworks" radiate a ragtime glow -- magnolias, maple leaves, dragonflies and cobwebs are set atop finely wrought bronze bases. Viewed together, however, they overwhelm a modern eye, a sort of kaleidoscopic overdose. Tiffany would perhaps have been embarrassed by such a showing of his lamps. He considered them rankly commercial and beneath his talents. They were, however, a convenient way to use up the several tons of glass chips and shards remaining from his monumental windows. At his 68th birthday party, where more than 160 examples of his art were displayed, Tiffany exhibited only one lamp...
...ended up electing the lamp instead," Wepsic recalls...
...Duff to bed, which was something Wylie liked to do herself, and Taylor read Duff and me a paper he was writing on weak gravity, in a room that was dark except for the yellow glow of a table lamp and the purple glow of the fish tank. He made it funny, choosing neighborhood and household examples for anything technical. "Weak gravity is what keeps your dreams inside your head so they don't go flying out," he said. "It's what keeps Jase and Duff together," he said, smiling sweetly, "so they...
...photograph taken at Daytona Beach, Florida, the connection is not so obvious. Erwitt juxtaposes shapes to create compositions that are not readily apparent as real objects. However, detailed study of the photograph reveals a subtle relationship between the shape of apartment facades and a bird perched upon a street lamp...