Sharing below a new resource relating to the special exhibition, Glass: Art. Beauty. Design., and a display update in the French porcelain room. Read on for more details.

New Resource: Interview with Artist Beth Lipman

In July, Audra Kelly, director of interpretation, and Lisa Leyh, head of volunteer and employee engagement, conducted an interview with contemporary artist Beth Lipman via Zoom to discuss her work and Miles’ Law, the sculpture currently on view in the mansion first floor library in conjunction with the special exhibition Glass: Art. Beauty. Design.

Beth Lipman’s art explores material culture, mortality, and temporality through still lives, site-specific installations, and photographs. In the interview, she shares what motivated her to exhibit at Hillwood, her process behind Miles’ Law, and her future projects at other renowned museums. You can watch the interview, along with other educational resources related to the Glass exhibition, by visiting the “Educational Resources” section under the “Glass: Art. Beauty. Design. Exhibition Information” tab on the volunteer website homepage. On this page, please find:

• New: Hillwood Interview with Artist Beth Lipman
• Jun 12 Volunteer Lecture Recording
• Glass Exhibition Label Text and Mansion Display Information
• Additional Resources for Contemporary Artists
• Exhibition webpage

Display Update: French Porcelain Room

Hillwood is thrilled to announce the Cindy Sherman tureen is now on permanent view in the French porcelain room.

In 1990 the New York firm Arte Magnus asked the contemporary artist Cindy Sherman to create limited edition porcelain tableware for manufacture by Limoges, in France. Sherman donned a wig, applied makeup, and wore prosthetic breasts to photograph herself as Madame de Pompadour, the legendary patron of the Sèvres porcelain factory. The manufactory applied Sherman’s image to an imitation eighteenth-century Sèvres-style soup tureen.

Little fish—a reference to Madame de Pompadour’s maiden name, Poisson—also decorate the surface of the vessel. The tureen and a platter, both in Sèvres’ eighteenth-century rose pink, informally known as rose Pompadour, cheekily reinterpret and mimic the original Sèvres design for the soup tureen, which is similar to the turquoise tureen nearby.