The Corning Museum of Glass explored a remarkable but little-known chapter in the history of 20th-century design in Czech Glass: Design in an Age of Adversity 1945-1980, the largest %%gathering%% of postwar Czech glass ever seen in the United States. The exhibition featured a wide array of dazzling objects, including tour de force sculptures, that shed light on the innovations of Czech designers and artists who, working in the wake of World War II and under Communist rule, invented new ways of painting and creating sculptural forms in glass.