September 2015

Everyone’s a Critic/Curator/Comedian!

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Elvis Costello and Kelsey Grammar, 04-22-2003 episode of Frasier, image source: NBC Writing about art (or music) is like dancing (or sometimes singing, or occasionally knitting) about architecture, or maybe football, as once quipped either comedian/art collector Steve Martin, or comedian/artist Martin Mull, or maybe musician/comic actor Elvis Costello, or possibly even experimental satirist/Zappa-esque musician […]

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Cut, Washed, and Worn

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Georgian Mourning Ring, 1772, sepia ink, hair, crystal, 18-karat gold, white enamel, 16 x 14.5 mm, photo: Erie Basin Does the sentimentality behind antique hair jewelry simply fade away over time? While the original owners of these objects are deceased and we typically do not know whom the locks of hair belonged to, with some

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Apinya Boonprakob: Something about Jewellery and a Woman

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Apinya Boonprakob, Untitled, 2008, shoulder brooch, fine silver, sterling silver, 24-karat gold, freshwater pearls, tourmalines, 100 x 50 x 15 mm, photo: Shinratna Kaewdirok Apinya Boonprakob is a Thai jewelry artist who holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, London, and exhibits internationally. She now works as a professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

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In Conversation with Angelika Nollert

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Portrait of Dr. Angelika Nollert, photo: Anna Seibel In May 2014, Dr. Angelika Nollert succeeded Dr. Florian Hufnagl as the director of what is arguably the world’s largest design museum, the Die Neue Sammlung—The International Design Museum Munich, including its internationally renowned jewelry collection in the museum’s Danner Rotunda. While Dr. Nollert’s early background did

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Lessons from Carlo Scarpa

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Installation view of Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, Sicily, Italy Museum interior and display design by Carlo Scarpa, 1953 For all their alleged “insularity,” makers in this field are remarkably curious, and invariably compile extensive (mental or actual) visual archives on, well, the world around them. You and I think of it as a way to justify

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Mielle Harvey

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Mielle Harvey, Golden Bird Ring, 2011, sterling silver, 23-karat gold leaf, oil paint, 51 mm, photo by artist Mielle Harvey is a sensitive jeweler with interests in the birds and the bees, with living and dying, and all the fragile and meaningful aspects of life. Her show at Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Arts consists of both

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Baroque Pleasures

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Tanel Veenre, Handful. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-89790-436-1 Book cover: Handful, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2015, photo: Benjamin Lignel. It must be brave for an artist to author a book about their work. Writing seems ancillary to the core occupation of producing work. The act might appear self-congratulatory, unfair on the reader who cannot access, touch, much

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