The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is presenting a major Chihuly exhibition, June 14 - September 28, 2008 at both the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor. The exhibition is organized by FAMSF and is accompanied by a catalog written by curator Timothy Anglin Burgard. For an overview of the exhibition please visit this special section.
Upcoming
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence will exhibit a survey of Chihuly's early work and a major 4,000 square foot installation, September 27 - January 4, 2009. This will be the inaugural exhibition for the Chase Center, designed by Rafael Moneo.
The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, has announced a major exhibition titled Chihuly: The Nature of Glass. The exhibition will feature site specific glass installations in the magnificent desert environment along the garden's trails. The exhibition will open Saturday, November 22 and will remain until May 31, 2009.
Recent
Chihuly@Google. Dale visited Google at their headquarters in Mountain View, California on June 19, 2008, as part of their Authors@Google series. Watch Dale's talk and the videos he showed on YouTube.
You can now set up your own iGoogle homepage and personalize it with a Chihuly Artist Theme banner. One of three photographic images will display on rotation every time you visit your page.
Chihuly in the Hotshop, a new documentary directed by Peter West is now available. In the summer of 2006 the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, invited Chihuly to work in their state-of-the-art hotshop, an
amphitheater specifically designed to allow the audience to watch the action close at hand. Chihuly's residency soon became the idea for a documentary as he set forth on an ambitious program that would reflect the sum total of his work in glass over the last thirty years. All thirteen of his best-known series were revisited along with more than forty artists and gaffers who had worked with Chihuly at the time of the inception of each series.
The film premiered at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 3, 2008. In February the film had its Northwest premier at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, and aired on KCTS in Seattle. It was shown at the 31st Portland International Film Festival at the NW Film Center, Portland, Oregon. The film has also been selected to
participate at the HDFEST in New York City in October.
The title is now available as a beautifully produced two-part set DVD and 144 page book from Portland Press.
The small hardcover contains more than ninety images with liner notes by art critic Matthew Kangas.
A major Chihuly installation is on public display: Fireworks of Glass at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is currently Chihuly's largest permanent sculpture. The 43-foot tower rises above what appears to be a floating glass ceiling under which children and families can engage in an interactive and hands-on glassblowing experience.
For a complete list of current and upcoming exhibitions, please visit the exhibition schedule. |
