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Nancy Sweezy, Savior of Jugtown Pottery, Dies at 88

Feb 27, 2010 9:00pm

Riding a surge of interest in folk arts in the 1960s and 1970s, Ms. Sweezy revived Jugtown, the famous pottery started by Juliana Royster Busbee....

Nancy Sweezy, Savior of Jugtown Pottery, Dies at 88

Feb 23, 2010 9:00pm

Ms. Sweezy revived the tradition of Jugtown pottery in the Piedmont hills of North Carolina....

Moving Beyond Function

Dec 5, 2009 9:00pm

A New Jersey State Museum survey of Toshiko Takaezu’s ceramics shows how the focus of her work evolved beyond everyday items....

Humble and Rustic, Ornate and Decorative: Pottery to Ogle

Oct 3, 2009 9:00pm

An exhibition spanning 50 years of art pottery at the Newark Museum underlines the notion of ceramics as high art....

New Chinese Buyers Redefine the Market

Sep 25, 2009 9:00pm

Even though they may be unfamiliar with the finer nuances of the art they are chasing, new bidders turned recent sales of Chinese art and ceramics into unmitigated triumphs....

Porcelain and Pottery Keep Collectors Spellbound

Sep 11, 2009 9:00pm

A Bonhams sale of English pottery and porcelain demonstrated this week that ceramics is one of the few areas of the art market still immune from financial speculation....

Take a Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Dew

Aug 26, 2009 9:00pm

It is hard to remain disgruntled in a Jonathan Adler environment. Item No. 1 of his manifesto, printed right on the wall, is, “We believe that your home should make you happy.”...

Otto Heino, Ceramicist Who Elevated the Humble Pot to Art, Is Dead at 94

Jul 26, 2009 9:00pm

Mr. Heino, a driven craftsman who was said to produce up to 10,000 pieces a year, was known as a purist in his work with clay....

An Offering Fit for the Emperors

Jul 17, 2009 9:00pm

The British Museum has acquired the Percival David collection of Chinese ceramic vessels, one of the most dazzling displays of Chinese porcelain anywhere....

A Potter’s Eye

Jun 24, 2009 9:00pm

Frances Palmer, a potter whose one-of-a-kind pottery is sold at stores like Bergdorf Goodman, shopped for pitchers worthy of great summer drinks....

Fellini in a Bottle (Rub for 8.5 Wishes)

May 20, 2009 9:00pm

KleinReid’s new “8.5” collection was inspired by the Fellini film “8 1/2” and each piece was named for a different character....

Museum in the Works Is Losing Some Content

Apr 22, 2009 9:00pm

The losses at a museum dedicated to the artist Henry Varnum Poor have become a matter of contention between Poor’s son and the museum’s backers....

When Russel Wright’s American Modern dinnerware first appeared in 1939, it brought unfussy elegance straight to the table. Each piece, designed with the eye and hand in mind, presented a wonderfully refined silhouette a creamer as stout as a Disney dwarf, a water pitcher as sleek as a heron...

Crucible of Creativity, Stoking Earth Into Art

Mar 19, 2009 9:00pm

“Dirt on Delight” at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania argues for ceramics as a more than worthy subject....

Mystery of Ancient Pueblo Jars Is Solved

Feb 3, 2009 9:00pm

A collection of clay jars, whose purpose long puzzled scholars, were used for drinking liquid chocolate a finding that offers the first proof of chocolate use in North America north of Mexico....