Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few collectors have enjoyed such a winding journey through the art world as Boston-area private investor Jeffrey Horvitz, whose ...

Installation view of Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art at the Hayward Gallery, London. Pictured: Takuro Kuwata, "Untitled" (variously 2015, 2016), porcelain, glaze, pigment, steel, gold, ...

Last Thursday and Friday, the Yale University Art Gallery hosted a symposium that considered the role of ceramics in modern and contemporary art. Entitled “Ceramic Presence: Conversations on Making, ...

Ceramics can inspire a kind of obsession. Mark Twain, in fact, was an avid collector of the stuff. The author once effused that the “marks on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw ...

Beginning in the 1960s, collectors Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio assembled over five decades an unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary ceramics, focusing on objects that individually ...

Sylvanus Sydney Denton’s expansive ceramics collection is up for auction at Sotheby’s - Sotheby's Among the students of Oxford University, Sylvanus Sydney Denton was a name to be conjured with. For ...

A new exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum is an homage to unsteady hands and uncertain tempers, to chips and nicks, to the inconsistent and unfinished. In “Designed for Flowers: ...

The ceramics program at The Center for Contemporary Art has seen tremendous growth over the past four years. Today it boasts two kilns, eight pottery wheels, the area's only wheelchair-accessible ...

A new contemporary ceramics show has opened across the pond—and its items are no ordinary mugs and bowls. Courtenay Moon, a recent graduate of Sotheby’s Institute of Art and an independent curator, ...

In the last years, the ancient material has transcended its traditional functionality and has been elevated to its own form of fine art. Sarah Rayner, Entwined, 2020, hand carved porcelain, 28 x 28 x ...

Highlights from the Design and Contemporary Ceramics sale include: • Edgar Brandt Bookcase, designed for a private commission by Mr Edward Mitchell, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France, 1920s. Estimate: ...