In 2011, Fran Allison, with the aid of research funding from Manukau Institute of Technology, began conducting a series of videoed conversations with players from the contemporary jewelry scene. Makers, writers, and gallery owners in Europe, the UK, and New Zealand share with her their views on their own and current jewelry practices, with the […]
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As part of his review of the Legnica Jewellery Festival, Stephen Bottomley reported on a lecture by Mah Rana, which in his account did not provide a satisfactory assessment of the focus of her lecture on her Meanings and Attachment project. In response, Ms. Rana wrote a letter to the editor, in which she seeks
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AJF and Klimt02 Partnership —Benjamin Lignel It is fitting that the words “critic” and “crisis” share the same root: the Greek krinein, meaning to separate, decide, judge. Indeed, this is a decisive moment for critical writing, which is currently in crisis mode. While the amount of commentary on art, and on contemporary jewelry, has increased
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Hoogeboom’s jewelry often operates cross-culturally: Through its title and the appearance of the repeated ceramic elements, Show Your Teeth makes reference to the teeth necklaces that are found throughout the Pacific. A quick scan through Roger Neich and Fuli Pereira’s book Pacific Jewellery and Adornment (David Bateman, 2004) reveals necklaces using teeth from whales, sharks,
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Galerie Marzee, Rijmegen, Netherlands Mill Valley, CA, September 1, 2014—In addition to the cash award of $7500 for the winner of the Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award (AJF AA), we have just arranged for the five finalists (including the winner) to show at the fabulous annual Schmuck event in Munich, Gemany. Work will be displayed
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These podcasts are provided to you through the joint efforts of SNAG and AJF. There are eight lectures in all, recorded during the 2014 SNAG Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. At this time, you can listen to Tanya Herrod give the keynote address, followed by Sofia Björkman of Platina Galerie, art historian Jenni Sorkin, and
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As part of AJF’s new partnership with Klimt02, this article has been publicized on their website under the label “the AJF feed.” Four more articles on the subject of criticality are being published this summer under this collaborative umbrella. (Please have a look at the first three, penned by Moyra Elliott, Clare Finin, and Damian
Yes, I Am Biased as a Critic. Read More »
Criticism is a kind of art history done about new or recent objects. It involves judgment, but without the benefit of hindsight. Criticism is different to art history, which isn’t so concerned with judgment. Instead, art history explores the relationship of objects with each other, with history and with various aspects of society. Art history
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As part of a new partnership with KLIMT02, this article has been publicized on their website under the label ‘the AJF feed’. Three more articles on the subject of criticality are being published this summer under this collaborative umbrella (the first one, by Moyra Elliott, is already out). —Benjamin Lignel In What Is a Good
On Being Young, or Criticality and 21st Century Academia Read More »
Cartier, Juste un Clou, bracelet, 2012, yellow gold, outside diameter approx. 65mm, photo: Vincent Wulveryck, copyright: Cartier 2012 The camera makes sure that we see this piece of jewelry, and at the end of the scene, when luckily Alba decides not to jump, we meet her again on the street, where she is being arrested
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This keynote address was delivered on July 5, 2014, at the Auckland Museum, during the Talkfest organized by Objectspace with the support of Creative New Zealand. The program began the day before, with a PechaKucha evening, and continued throughout the day with contributions by makers Pauline Bern, Warwick Freeman, Richard Orjis, and Lauren Winston; curators
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In 2012, Kiff Slemmons presented a lecture at Sculpture Objects, Functional Art & Design (SOFA) Chicago titled, More Than One to Make One. While AJF was not able to record a video of this lecture, Kiff presented it again at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at Krannert Art Museum in April 2014. That was
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