Cambridge, Mass., and Corning, N.Y. If you somehow manage to avoid reading explanatory text as you enter the restored gallery on the second floor of Harvard University’s Museum of Natural History, ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation. “The Glass Flowers gallery really ...
CAMBRIDGE — In her poem “Silence,” Marianne Moore quotes her father: “Superior people never make long visits,/have to be shown Longfellow’s grave/or the glass flowers at Harvard.” The glass flowers — ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Tucked inside a museum on the Harvard University campus is a gallery teeming with plants so lifelike in appearance you’d be forgiven for swearing they’re real. But this foliage is ...
Layo Bright believes in the language of flowers. Over the past few years, the Brooklyn-based artist has steadily incorporated imagery of blossoms—both real and imaginary—into her glass and pottery ...
Step into the glass flowers exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and you’ll be stunned. The 4,300 intricate glass models that represent 780 species—including orchids, pitcher plants, ...
Illness and impaired vision have compelled Rudolph Blaschka, 80 year old glass-worker of Hosterwitz, Germany and creator of the whole of Harvard's collection of glass flowers, to cease active work.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Tucked inside a museum on the Harvard University campus is a gallery teeming with plants so lifelike in appearance you’d be forgiven for swearing they’re real. But this foliage ...