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Karin Roy Andersson, Necklace, in leather, thread, approximately 20 inches (508 mm) long, photo courtesy of Pistachios

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May 2026, Part 2 Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase […]

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May 2026, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying

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Munich Insights: Collected Matters

Before an exhibition opens, something else is already being made. Catalogs are designed, essays commissioned, flyers printed—and, at the Pinakothek, a booklet made for visitors to fill with stamps from 42 schools. By the time Munich Jewellery Week begins, a parallel world of printed matter has taken shape alongside it—and when the week winds down,

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Exhibition view, Earrings Galore, at IHM, 2026, photo: Elena Karpilova

Munich Insights: Art and Commerce

Schmuck—or Munich Jewellery Week, depending on who you ask—is a pilgrimage, a marketplace, a reunion, or a reckoning. Each year in March, Munich becomes a temporary capital of contemporary jewelry—a week when makers, gallerists, curators, collectors, and critics inhabit the same rooms, the same openings, the same conversations. The essays gathered here emerged from that

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Nicolas Christol, Instable (Unstable), 2026, ring in silver, rock crystal, gallium, photo: artist

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May 2026, Part 1 Part 2 Right now, when the world feels topsy-turvy, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series

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May 2026, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying

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Marion Vidal, Necklace "Muse," in black bamboo and 18-karat yellow gold, unique piece for MiniMasterpiece, 2026, photo courtesy of Galerie MiniMasterpiece

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April 2026, Part 2 Right now, when the world feels upside-down, we all could use a treat. It feels great to treat ourselves to a terrific piece of art jewelry while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network

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Have You Heard

April 2026, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying

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Thomas Gentille, Brooch, 1991, in eggshell inlay, wood, 2 ⅜ x 2 ¾ x 1 inches (60 x 70 x 25 mm), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Helen Williams Drutt Collection, museum purchase funded by Ellen English, 2002.3773 © Thomas Gentille, photo: © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Thomas R. DuBrock

Remembering Thomas

My friendship with Thomas Gentille became the best friendship one can have, long and deep, and I must admit it is somewhat difficult to write a remembrance at this moment, such a short time since his passing. I met Thomas through his presence in a book, Susan Lewin’s One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry

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Nikki Couppee, Necklace, in brass, acrylic, faux pearls, sterling silver, approximately 22 inches (559 mm) long, photo: Pistachios

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April 2026, Part 1 Right now, when the world feels upside-down, we all could use a treat. It feels great to treat ourselves to a terrific piece of art jewelry while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network

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Have You Heard

April 2026, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying

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