Threshold by Danny Lane

A PROJECTTenTenTen commission 

for the Mint Museum of Craft + Design 

at Mint Museum Uptown

Danny Lane and Scruffy with Shan Shui 

“Since the beginning of my working life I have sought the route of least resistance.

Glass breaks, break it first: it scratches, scratch it first. 

Metal rusts, rust it first. Decay is inherent in these materials,

and this is a quality I don’t neglect”

• Danny Lane is an American-born artist who went to Britain in 1975 to study glass arts and painting and has been working in London since the 1980s.  Lane's work in glass can cover massive scale; his work Borealis is one of the world's largest glass sculptures.

• The artist's website, which include his biography, examples of his work and contact information
• Danny Lane talks about Threshold and you can see its construction in this video by Wonderworld 
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• Danny Lane : Clear Genius from the Financial Times : How to Spend It   
• Sotheby's visit to Danny Lane's studio in London.

Video from a different visit to Lane's studio

• Information about the acquisition of Threshold
• Information about and images of his work Stairway

 Other site-specific works by Lane 

• Opening Line "largest public art work created in Britain", over 90 meters long.
• Borealis at the Renaissance Center in Detroit
• A specially commissioned glass staircase in the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK

Print Resources in the Mint Library

• Contemporary British Glass, London:  Adrian Sassoon, 2006.

• Klein, Dan. Artists in Glass, London: Mitchell Beazley, 2001. 

Funds to acquire Threshold were provided by generous donors supporting

the Founders' Circle Mint Condition Gala 2009, and Mr. and Mrs. Drew Quartapella.

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Edited by Laura Brown, intern for The Mint Museum Library