Museum staff and guests discuss items in display cases at the preview of Maurizio Nannucci’s retrospective exhibition, Where to Start From, at the Museo MAXXI, Rome Museum staff and guests discuss items in display cases at the preview of Maurizio Nannucci’s retrospective exhibition, Where to Start From, at the Museo MAXXI, Rome Does an all-too-familiar …
Art history is a long road where precocities and delays often collide; it’s made of screams and terrible silences. As Henri Focillon wrote once, “[a work of art] is both completely absorbed in the dynamism of time and, at the same time, a universal witness”[1]: forms live through time and space, and history of the …
Tura Sugden, photo: artist Tura Sugden is an artist based in San Francisco who composes golden architectural spaces in her meticulously constructed jewelry. Sugden has studied advanced goldsmithing techniques in Belgium, Maine, Tennessee, Kansas, and California. Her show, Silhouettes, at Shibumi Gallery, gave me a chance to interview her. Olivia Shih: You were classically trained …
Exhibition view, Black on Black, 2015-16, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, photo: courtesy of Manchester Art Gallery 2015 Black on Black June 20, 2015–January 31, 2016 Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Curated by Jo Bloxham Black on Black is the latest jewelry exhibition curated by longtime Manchester Art Gallery collaborator Jo Bloxham. In her introduction, Bloxham …
Jill Baker Gower, Fleshgem Brooch #1, 2013, rubber, garnets, pearls, silver, 69.9 X 85.7 X 19 mm, photo by artist Jill Baker Gower is an artist, metalsmith, and educator. Her jewelry, often based on the female experience, has been widely exhibited and printed in publications such as Metalsmith magazine and the book 500 Enameled Objects. …
Chiara Scarpitti, Ushabti, 2015, ornamental pendant, gold-plated silver, Plexiglas, steel, passementerie, 300 x 150 x 10 mm, photo: U. Puca With a PhD in design and innovation, Chiara Scarpitti is an artist who combines anthropological research with digital manufacturing in thought-provoking jewelry. She thinks of herself as a designer who specializes in contemporary jewelry and …
Jeweler Adam Grinovich trying on someone’s Rolex at Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof, Bad Rappenau, Germany Jeweler Adam Grinovich trying on someone’s Rolex at Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof, Bad Rappenau, Germany Toward the end of the Q&A portion of the talk he gave during Zimmerhof 2015, Adam confessed that he had recently acquired a crazy obsession with getting a Rolex. …
Aurélie Guillaume, Florentino, 2015, necklace, enamel on copper, sterling silver, fine silver, powder-coated brass, gold-plated copper, 110 x 500 x 27 mm, photo: Eliot Wright Aurélie Guillaume, a recent graduate of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD), won the 2015 L.A. Pai Gallery student competition. This award is based on technical excellence, …
