December 2011

Susan Cummins But before I dive into my next post, I would like to thank Mike Holmes and Damian Skinner for keeping the AJF blog a dynamic and engaging place for the past year and a half. Without their vision, this new website and blog would not exist. Thanks so much, you two.

The redesigned website is envisioned as an online magazine full of original content relating to contemporary jewelry.  This redesign centers on AJF’s desire to be a major resource about the international art jewelry scene. How did that vision come about? AJF editor Damian Skinner and board member Mike Holmes, who were originally working on the

Lisa Walker Lisa Walker, Galerie Ra Lisa Walker, Cobra Museum of Modern Art Lisa Walker, Galerie Ra Lisa Walker,Galerie Ra It seems that anything can become art jewelry, you just have to figure out how to get it onto or relate it with the body. And make no mistake, 85 of the 86 works are

Klaus Bürgel, LOOP XIV, brooch, sterling silver It is another frequently unacknowledged fact that during the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods tapestries were valued as much as paintings—and in certain parts of Europe, even more so. Outside of Italy, tapestries solidified dynasties in a way that paintings could not. The nobility throughout Europe and

Alexander Blank Where did the night go? encompasses three bodies of work all which exhibit a stunning level of craft and are related to fantastic realities. The work began as a conscious departure from Blank’s conceptual methodology. As a student at the Munich academy Blank reached a moment in his artistic practice where he needed