July 2015

Female Complaint

“What Makes a Woman?”—Elinor Burkett’s op-ed for The New York Times—triggered a saucy catfight between second-wave and third-wave feminists (and who doesn’t love a little girl-on-girl action, am I right?). Burkett makes what she seems to think is a compelling argument that being transgender is just another way for those assigned male at birth to

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Breaking News: Ted Noten Strikes Again

Exhibition view, Ted Noten: Non Zone, 2015, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, photo: Liesbeth den Besten Ted Noten: Non Zone June 13–October 18, 2015 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Two years ago, Ted Noten had his Framed exhibition at the Stedelijk museum’s-Hertogenbosch in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. When organizing this show,

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Velvet da Vinci

Exterior photograph, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, photo: Mike Holmes Missy Graff: What is your background with contemporary art jewelry? What led you to be a dealer? Elizabeth Shypertt: I studied jewelry making starting in high school and continued with night classes when I returned to San Francisco after college.  Mike and I met

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Magic from the Ground

Ground: A Retrospective Exhibition of Ruudt Peters May 22–July 31, 2015 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, President’s Gallery, Boston, USA Born in 1950 in in the Netherlands, Ruudt Peters is lauded as a prominent and provocative figure in the contemporary jewelry world. He tends to translate big ideas into beautifully crafted jewelry and, through

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