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 […]
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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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Teng Fei, In That Summer, 2007, necklace, silver, lacquer, 100 mm diameter, photo: Yao Lu Art and Jewelry, A Journey from Beijing to Berlin Teng Fei received a BA degree from CAFA in 1987, majoring in woodcuts, and afterward worked at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. In 1990, she went to Germany and completed
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The term “art jewelry” can mean a lot of different things to different people. How would you define it? What does art jewelry mean to you?
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In the past week, I witnessed Che Guevara’s face on a hand-painted locker at my son’s middle school, stenciled on a derelict building, printed on a wine bottle label, and silkscreened on organic cotton onesies. Unmoored from its original context, Alberto Korda’s original black-and-white photograph of Che Guevara is obscured in a morass of commercialism:
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Mill Valley, CA, July 1, 2014—Art Jewelry Form (AJF) is accepting applications for its 2014 Artist Award for an Emerging Jewelry Artist. This is the fifteenth year that AJF will be providing a cash award to a contemporary jewelry artist. The amount of the 2014 award will remain at $7500 this year thanks to the
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Since 2005, AJF has been funding catalogs and exhibitions as part of its aim to advocate for contemporary art jewelry through education, appreciation, and support for the field. AJF believes that exhibitions and catalogs are an essential part of the contemporary art jewelry infrastructure, by documenting history, fostering curatorial skills, providing opportunities for writing about contemporary art
Shift Exhibition and Zoom Symposium Read More »
“The frustration of Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles was that the works by such clever artists, for the most part, served as props. When Calder fabricated the masks to display his jewels, he perceived them solely as display apparatus, not necessarily artistic statements, while the members of this exhibition, working within their own theoretical frameworks,
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How useful are ideas of discipline in interpreting jewelry? In our increasingly post-disciplinary climate, differentiating between the realms that create and critique jewelry could seem no longer valid. Yet, some jewelry suggests that considering disciplines discretely can still be useful, particularly when authors engage with different disciplines to create objects unusual or overlooked in jewelry
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Benjamin Lignel and Namita Wiggers, Art Jewelry Forum Speakers Tour, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 22nd October 2013 In the fall of 2013, several contributors to the AJF book Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective toured North America to present the publication. Editor Damian Skinner spoke at Pratt and at the Renwick Gallery. Museum of Contemporary Craft
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