John Talbott's Paris: Corning Glass Museum (NY) and Johnson Museum at Cornell: mixed wows!

July 02, 2015

Corning Glass Museum (NY) and Johnson Museum at Cornell: mixed wows!

Today was museum day in the Finger Lakes: first the Corning Glass Museum in Corning NY which was the most spectacular glass museum I've seen, surpassing even that in Nancy; then in the PM we went to the Johnson Museum at Cornell in Ithaca NY whose I.M. Pei building is a wow, while it's holdings pale compared to those at say the Fogg or Smith College Museums.

Jul 2, 2015 11:40:03 PM | Art

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