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By Unu Sohn It has been a busy mid-October week in London with Frieze coinciding with neighbouring PAD, located a short 20-minute walk away from Regent's Park in Berkeley Square, and newer programming like Minor Attractions. You may be unfamiliar with this younger London-specific art fair, “Minor Attractions,” now in its third year, that aims to connect contemporary art and...

By Laura Curcio If you walk down William Street in inner-city Sydney before November 19, you will see a majestic ceramic work in the window of Australian Design Centre. Standing nearly one metre tall and aptly titled Apparition, it has a whimsical and dream-like quality, with coloured glass bubbles emerging from a white ceramic structure perched on four legs. It...

By Susannah Israel There are journeys that run like rivers, looping back, carving new paths, and gathering stories along the way. For Susannah Israel, Archie Bray has been that river. Each time she returned, the current was different: once as a young resident chasing possibility, again as a writer drawn into the narratives of others, and finally as an artist...

By Jennifer Zwilling & Josie Bockelman At The Clay Studio, care is at the core of working in clay and building community. When we began preparing for our move to our new building in the South Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia in 2018, we invited forty neighbors to join us for Clay & Conversations, funded by a Discovery Grant from the...

Ceramics Now announces a new Call for Papers We're excited to announce a new call for papers for publication in Ceramics Now Magazine in 2026. Ceramics Now invites submissions of critical essays, exhibition reviews, and research-based articles for upcoming issues of the magazine. In honoring our commitment to showing the evolving trends and concepts that shape contemporary ceramics, we welcome...

By Debra Sloan Essay on Written in Clay, Ceramics from the John David Lawrence Collection, at the Vancouver Art Gallery. On the Traditional Coast Salish Lands including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. The exhibition, Written in Clay, Ceramics from the Collection of John David LawrenceExhibition curated by Diana Freundl, Interim Director of Collections & Senior Curator,...

By Wolfgang Lösche From September 17 to November 1, 2025, Monique Deul presents a total of 17 ceramic works by the German artist Johannes Nagel in the new premises of her gallery, Taste Contemporary, in Geneva. With this exhibition, she once again foregrounds contemporary ceramics, which play a central role in the gallery's programme. I came to know Johannes Nagel...

By Marc Leuthold "Crashing Ceramics," a multi-media, installation-based group exhibition curated by Mr. Feng Boyi, Ms. Li Yifei, and Mr. Gao Wenjian, featured 30 avant-garde artists at the Taoxichuan Longquan Wangou Museum in China. Longquan is the site of extraordinary celadons dating back to the Song Dynasty, a thousand years ago. Exhibiting artists are based in China unless otherwise noted:...

By Vasi Hîrdo Visiting Stoke-on-Trent for the first time felt like stepping into a city — really a group of six towns — that has been tied to ceramics for centuries. The train from London takes about an hour and a half or longer if delays get in the way, as they did on my trip. Still, once I got...

By Doug Navarra Wayne Ngan’s ceramics resist easy categorization. Rooted in East Asian ceramic traditions and grounded in technical mastery of wheel-thrown form, his vessels elude familiar typologies: neither strictly functional, nor explicitly conceptual, nor overtly expressive. Instead, Ngan reorients the pot as a site of contemplative materialism, where clay becomes a medium not for symbolism, but for stillness and...

By Karolina Wolska-Pabian The building of the Academy of Fine Arts on Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie in Warsaw has long been a cornerstone of the University's activity. The first building, funded by Eugenia Kierbedź, was completed in 1914, but the outbreak of the First World War delayed the establishment of studios and lecture halls within it. The ceremonial opening of the AcademyBetween...

By Katherina Perlongo For over 80 years, the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche (MIC) has served as a central stage for international ceramic art in Faenza, a city of around 58,000 residents located in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. Within this historically rich city, the Premio Faenza – International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics, taking place from June 28 to November...

By Christina Rauh Oxbøll As the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory celebrates its 250th anniversary this year, it remains an active player on both the domestic and international markets. As home to the historical Royal Copenhagen Collection, which was donated to CLAY Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark in 2010 by the factory, it is only natural for the museum to mark...

By Elaine Henry Diversity has many faces. The online Cambridge Dictionary defines diversity as “many different types of things or people being included in something; a range of different things or people.” When, at the 1991 NCECA conference, Bobby Scroggins noticed the lack of black and brown faces, he rallied several attendees, including Imna Arroyo, Greg Busceme, Stephen Carter, Dora...

By James Young Walking up the stairs into the upper floor ceramics gallery of Goldmark, a frequent visitor might be slightly disoriented. Instead of the bright gallery space with brilliant white walls, one encounters black walls with spotlights shining on plinths, shelving and varying displays across the room. Reminiscent of the department store ceramic galleries in Tokyo, Goldmark has turned...

By Katherina Perlongo For one weekend in June, a former drugstore tucked inside a shopping mall in Berlin’s Wedding district was transformed into a vibrant showcase of contemporary ceramic art. The works of 23 artists filled the space, offering a rare and compelling glimpse into Berlin’s quietly thriving but often overlooked ceramics scene. Formed marked the first public expression of...

By Cammi Climaco Michelle Im's first solo show at DIMIN gallery coincidentally comes right when the news algorithm is reporting story after story of people behaving badly on airplanes. Air travel apparently brings out the absolute worst in people. When I walked into Michelle's show, her sculptures of Korean female flight attendants were right on time. The eight sculptures, each...

By Graciela Olio This article focuses on establishing criteria for analysis and reflections on the place of contemporary ceramics within the framework of current arts in all their media and languages. Within these axes are the post-disciplinary approaches, among which we can analyze a neo-category that we can call post-ceramics. A series of questions about ceramics in contemporary art challenge...

By Nigel Atkins Put simply, this is an exhibition of Pekka Paikkari's ceramic art deliberately set among one of the most extensive permanent collections of Gallic and Mediterranean pottery in one of France's most delightful provincial museums. The Ensérune Archaeological Museum crowns a rocky outcrop some thirteen kilometers west of Béziers. In 2022, the Museum enjoyed a brilliantly designed renovation...

By Monica Monaia “I am human because I belong.”Archbishop Desmond Tutu South Africa, with its rich diversity of ethnicities, is often seen as a place of cultural convergence. Art, in its many forms, holds a significant place in the country's cultural landscape. It is also home to a vibrant community of ceramicists, where traditional and contemporary practices intersect in dynamic...