{"id":3065,"date":"2011-01-20T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/01\/fire-and-light\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:02:43","slug":"fire-and-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/01\/fire-and-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post, I quote the art reviewer Roberta Smith classifying the glass artist Dale Chihuly as a &quot;lightweight.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Concidentally, there was a fascinating biopic about Chihuly on channel Thirteen last night &#8211; &quot;Fire and Light&quot; &#8211; that included appearances by a number of art heavyweights, including the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving.<\/p>\n<p>Hoving is a fan of Chihuly and, after watching the one-hour special, it was hard not to admire the range and depth of Chihuly&#39;s work, the prolific output and his dedication to continually pushing the creative envelope. <\/p>\n<p>Watching him at work, it seems clear that Chihuly is relying moment-to-moment on his unique artistic inner voice to guide the creative process and perhaps that is what Smith finds troubling &#8211; the premise of his work does not spring from an intellectual construct.<\/p>\n<p>Well, if Chihuly is a lightweight, I&#39;d consider it a compliment to be included in that category.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post, I quote the art reviewer Roberta Smith classifying the glass artist Dale Chihuly as a &quot;lightweight.&quot; Concidentally, there was a fascinating biopic about Chihuly on channel Thirteen last night &#8211; &quot;Fire and Light&quot; &#8211; that included appearances by a number of art heavyweights, including the former director of the Metropolitan Museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}