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Contemporary Jewellers: Interviews with European Artists

Conceived, according to the author Roberta Bernabei, as a research tool for those interested in contemporary jewelry, this book wears its textbook origins proudly: an introduction, brief conclusion and resource appendix accompany 25 interviews with European jewelers, illustrated by black and white images and a modest color section. Some of the interviews are better than […]

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Karl Fritsch: Metrosideros Robusta

Reviews / Damian Skinner

As much a work of publishing art as a retrospective of Karl Fritsch’s jewelry, this book is the perfect introduction to the sheer plethora and spectacle of Fritsch’s cunning combination of the most reactionary and most revolutionary elements of contemporary jewelry. The texts, by various luminaries of the contemporary jewelry scene, are not translated into

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Art Jewelry Today

Reviews / Damian Skinner

While there is no denying the sheer variety of contemporary jewelry on display in this book (color images of 552 pieces of jewelry by 193 artists from fourteen countries) Dona Z Meilach doesn’t do much to lift the book beyond its origins in a call for submissions in which anyone could participate. Grouped by themes,

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Schmuck der Moderne/Modern Jewellery 1960-1998

Reviews / Damian Skinner

A comprehensive catalog of the contemporary jewelry collection of the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, this book, by Fritz Falk and Cornelie Holzach (who have both worked at the museum) is also a substantial introduction to the development of contemporary jewellery in Europe and, less comprehensively, the rest of the world. Falk and Holzach offer pithy surveys

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Returning to the Jewel is a Return From Exile

Reviews / Vivien Atkinson

TarraWarra Museum of Art is situated a short drive from Melbourne. Located in a landscape of rolling hills that juxtapose manicured vineyards with paddocks of dry grass and stands of aromatic gum trees, this impressive museum is home to the considerable collection of modern art donated, along with the building, to the people of Australia

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Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century

Reviews / Kathleen Browne

Installation, Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford Installation, Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford Kathy Buszkiewicz also uses money, in her case shredded money (obtained from the Treasury Department) to address issues of materialism, commodification and value/worth. It took her countless

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Karl Fritsch: Some Rings are Fuckwits

Reviews / Vivien Atkinson

Installation, Karl Fritsch: Some Rings Are Fuckwits, Hamish McKay Gallery Installation, Karl Fritsch: Some Rings Are Fuckwits, Hamish McKay Gallery Available for close scrutiny, the raw power of the casting process and the artist’s fingerprints marking the surface of the soft wax in the shaping of each piece, are easier to read. The technical skill

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Karl Fritsch: Scenes from the Munich Diamond Disaster

Reviews / Vivien Atkinson

The recent renovations at the City Gallery, Wellington have seen some significant changes, particularly the Hirschfeld Gallery. This gallery is for the exhibition of local artists and used to be an odd lower-case, T-shaped space tucked in beside Nikau Café. This location, next to a bustling Wellington food venue, seemed to reflect the diverse shows

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Bingeing at SOFA Chicago

Reviews / Jillian Moore

SOFA Chicago. (Or, everyone boards the Titanic.) It would be disingenuous for me to pretend that I don’t have fun at SOFA Chicago. There are great things to be found, but you have to sift a lot of chaff to find it. My assumption has always been that a large volume of the traffic at

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Neo-palatial: A Curatorial Imaginarium

Reviews / Damian Skinner

Metalsmith magazine’s 2010 exhibition in print was curated by Garth Clark, a writer, curator, historian and ex-dealer gallerist who has been a leading commentator on ceramic practice. Titled Neo-palatial: A Curatorial Imaginarium, Clark’s curatorial conceit is to imagine his exhibition taking place in a faded eighteenth century palace in Europe that used to be occupied

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Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard

Reviews / Damian Skinner

I was lucky enough to encounter Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard in three ways: as a viewer looking at the show; during a private floor talk with Gralnick; and as a reader of the exhibition catalog. A review usually collapses these three stages together, into a seamless text that is informed by many sources of

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Thomas Gentille: Twenty-First Century

Reviews / Lindsay Pollock

Thomas Gentille, Brooch, 2010, eggshell inlay, India ink, metal, 101 x 75 x 13 mm The show at the dynamic four-year old Gallery Loupe includes some sixty Gentille brooches, all created in the last nine years. Thomas Gentille: Twenty-First Century could easily find a home at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, or any top-notch contemporary art

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Reviews

Contemporary Jewellers: Interviews with European Artists

Karl Fritsch: Metrosideros Robusta

Art Jewelry Today

Schmuck der Moderne/Modern Jewellery 1960-1998

Returning to the Jewel is a Return From Exile

Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century

Karl Fritsch: Some Rings are Fuckwits

Karl Fritsch: Scenes from the Munich Diamond Disaster

Bingeing at SOFA Chicago

Neo-palatial: A Curatorial Imaginarium

Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard

Thomas Gentille: Twenty-First Century

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