Pablo holding Martin Parr’s Fashion Magazine (New York: Magnum photos, 2005) © Baptiste Lignel/Otra Vista “But [the photographer] learned also that the factuality of his pictures, no matter how convincing and unarguable, was a different thing than the reality itself.[1] Now of course photography is not about equipment. Who cares if it was film, chrome, […]
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AJF asked the five young Artist Award finalists to give us their thoughts on the future of the field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. This is the fourth of five interviews, including one with Seulgi Kwon, the winner of this year’s award. For this, the 14th annual AJF
Platina, Stockholm, photo: Rikard Westman Kellie Riggs: I’ve recently listened to your lecture at the 2014 SNAG Conference in Minneapolis. One of my favorite things you said was something so simple: “Jewelry gives us satisfaction, it enables another way of being, seeing…” Can you talk more about this satisfaction? Does your gallery function as a
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Lin Cheung, Tomfoolery: Objects & Jewellery. London: Tomfoolery Publishing UK, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-9572988-0-4 For those not well versed in the artful linguistic gymnastics of London’s East End, tomfoolery is Cockney rhyming slang for jewellery. It is also defined in the dictionary as foolish behavior, utter nonsense, rubbish, and it is in the space between these
AJF asked the five young Artist Award finalists to give us their thoughts on the future of the field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. This is the second of five interviews, including one with Seulgi Kwon, the winner of this year’s award. For this, the 14th annual AJF
Edith Sitwell had a dissonant, resonant, voice that she employed to recite her avant-garde poetry—most notoriously Façade (1923), performed to Sir William Walton’s modernist music via Sengerphone (a megaphone made of papier-mâché) jutting through the open mouth of a primitivist mask, painted by sculptor Frank Dobson, on a curtain, which concealed her six-foot body. The
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Jane Dodd, Fuchsprellen, 2014, brooch, lignum vitae, beef bone, marcasite, sterling silver, 57.2 x 31.8 x 12.7 mm, photo: Studio La Gonda Bonnie Levine: You studied religion, anthropology, history, and native Maori language in college, followed by a serious career as a bass player in several well-known indie pop bands in New Zealand. With such
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AJF asked this years five young Artist Award finalists to give us their thoughts on the future of the field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. This is the first of five interviews, including one with Seulgi Kwon, the winner of this year’s prize. Attai Chen, Untitled, 2014, necklace, paper,
What’s the best way of disseminating a political slogan today? Where once the badge was a common medium for rallying calls, it now seems to have been eclipsed by the hashtag. The political messages of the day are less often worn on the body and more frequently disseminated through social media with the use of
Marjorie Schick, Deflection, 1993, neckpiece, papier-maché, paint, 483 x 470 x 305 mm, photo: Gary Pollmiller Marion Fulk: I understand that the jewelry you donated, called Gifts From America, was part of a larger overall exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Hermitage. Helen Drutt: Initially, allow me to correct a misconception—I did not donate
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Beauty of the Beast January 24–May 10, 2015 Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands A certified taxidermist demonstrated during opening night how to fasten a bird’s skin—with feathers attached—around a plastic mold. Beauty of the Beast, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, the Netherlands, photo: Monika Auch Taxidermy—the process of skillfully conserving dead animals or pieces of animals—is a
Tabea Reulecke, Dreamer, 2012, brooch, oxidized silver, enamel on copper, 75 x 80 x 10 mm, photo: Manu Ocaña Susan Cummins: You were born in Berlin but you have traveled and studied in many other places. You are truly an international jeweler. Can you give us a travel guide to your education as a jeweler?
