Dwight Lanmon discusses the art versus craft debate.

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Dwight Lanmon

Dwight Lanmon discusses the art versus craft debate. Oral history interview with Dwight Lanmon by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, August 5, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:51.

Dwight Lanmon: And it’s—I think it’s still not totally resolved, because there are still some major museums that do not have glass collections, let alone a curator, and I remember one time that—I forgot what the name of the publication was called, but it was the “stolen art alert” or something like that, which was a monthly alert and they had a section for craft and all of the furniture and so forth would be in that and then art and for the first time ever a piece of Dale Chihuly glass was included in art. It had been stolen and everybody said, ‘Ah, at last it’s art.’ But I think that’s still a question that this is not clearly resolved for a lot of curators and museum directors.