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Reviews the exhibition "Andrew Lord: Sculpture and Related Drawings," shown at Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York during September 10-October 9, 2004. Reaction of critics to artist Andrew Lord's exploration of pottery's intersection with issues of painting and sculpture; Characteristics of Lord's clay and objects used in his sculptures; Titles given to pedestal pieces that were presented in pairs or trios in the gallery's main room.

The article focuses on Polia Pillin's painting on clay. According to Pillin, the medium she employs to decorate her paintings and other pottery is engobe, a French word which refers to the mixture of clay and water with a consistency that is like a cream. She makes color clays by adding metal oxides to white slip. Much of her works in ceramics include plates, ashtrays and bowls. As of March 1, 1955, her work can be seen at The Willow in New York.

The article focuses on efforts by scientists at General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady, New York to adapt polycrystalline ceramics to industrial and military uses. According to Guy Suits, vice-president and director of research at GE, the Lucalox material they created can transmit light and can withstand much higher temperatures than most existing ceramics. Difficulties in producing Lucalox are due to the use of extremely fine-grain, high-purity aluminum oxide fired at temperatures much higher than is usual for ceramic materials.

The article offers information on the life of former New York art dealer Michael Klein. He got the position of director of Max Protech Gallery in New York after working as a curator at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. After that he was hired by Microsoft Corp. and worked as a first full-time, in-house curator. With the help of the Klein, Microsoft's collections of art and contemporary ceramics, achieved the highest rank among the other 3000 works of art.

The article presents various antique traveling exhibits in New York as of February 2006. A traveling exhibition of the Roycroft crafts is on view at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York through April 2, 2006. A traveling exhibition that looks into the ceramic wares exported from China to Japan between 1620 to 1645 at the China Institute Gallery in New York City on February 2, 2006.

An ubiquitous product is made in Rockland County in New York at Advanced Research Technology Inc. and it is affectionately named glop by the chairman of the company Herbert Schwartz. The glop is an application, in liquid,jelly-like or powder form, that is coated onto products to enable them to withstand extreme temperatures, up to 4400 degrees F and more. That's particularly important to space and melting technologies. More scientifically, it's known as an industrial ceramic-based high temperature material. Sometimes these applications are top secret for government uses.