Touch of Heaven: Goryeo Celadon Museum and You Bok Jo’s Celadons
by“Goryeo celadon” is a unique type of ceramic that was produced for the first time in the period known as the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1932) in Korean history. What makes Goryeo celadon so special is the da…
Bernard Leach’s Equestrian Roof Tiles: and their location within West Counrty Traditions
Standing in the Cube Gallery, in the centre of the Leach Pottery, is a very rare mid 1920s earthenware sculpture of a horse and rider by Bernard Leach. This sculpture had been roughly cemented onto a…
Laurent Craste: Disjunctions
Decapitated, flayed, pierced, crushed, hung, disemboweled, trampled, and collapsed—such are the torments Laurent Craste visits upon his works. The vases sometimes incorporate the instrument of their t…
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
In many respects, changing attitudes toward art determine what we value and what we cast aside.
