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| | Blown Away |
 | | Although "Glass Threads" at the Museum of American Glass in Wheaton Village in Millville, N.J., reflects an important work of scholarship on the part of museum curator Gay LeCleire Taylor, visitors will find it difficult to tear their eyes away from the sheer fantastical gorgeousness of it all to read the signage in the show. |
 | | There's one leaded Tiffany lamp that was shown in the Paris Exposition of 1900, in recognition of the company's legendary contributions in that area, but other Tiffany lamps with blown glass shades outshine the leaded one, at least in this show. |
 | | Tiffany's inspirations, like those of other art nouveau artists, came in two categories: natural forms, mostly botanical in the case of blown glass, and a slew of art historical sources, particularly Japanese, Chinese and Islamic. |
| www.citypaper.net /articles/2004-07-01/art.shtml (776 words) |
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