Once dismissed as a lesser art form, the still life has been reinvented as a radical form of expression, as a thrilling new show makes clear. An important untitled synthetic polymer on canvas painting ...

One of the world’s best pottery-makers turned up in Washington last week to begin a lecture and demonstration tour that will take him to 15 cities in the U.S. and Canada. He was Bernard Leach, 63, a ...

” ‘Things of Beauty Growing’: British Studio Pottery,” a new exhibit at the Yale Center for British Art, is the first major survey of British studio pottery ever organized in the United States.

Last month, the Yale Center for British Art opened "Things of Beauty Growing," the first major survey of British studio pottery ever held stateside. Works by celebrated ceramicists are brought ...

NEW HAVEN >> Looking at well-made ceramics is a pleasurable thing, and unlike paintings in a museum, they’re 3D. So this presents another reason to visit the Yale art museums. The Yale Center for ...

As the Leach Pottery celebrates its 100th anniversary in St Ives we take a look back at its history via a series of photos of Bernard Leach, his assistant Shoji Hamada, and his students This month ...

Work has started to restore a pottery museum and enable visitors to see "important pieces of pottery from across the world". The one-year project was designed to enhance the experience for visitors to ...

Born in 1887 in Hong Kong, to a well-to-do family with ties to the judicial system, as well as, the financial sector. Primarily growing up between Kyoto, Japan and Singapore, at age 10 he was sent ...

Bernard Leach's film of Mashiko village pottery (1937) and his scenes of Japan, Hong Kong and Shanghai (1934-1935). Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology ...