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Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century

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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SOFA Chicago and Outsider Art

Reviews / Damian Skinner

Fossicking around the internet for information about SOFA Chicago, the big American applied arts fair held on November 5–7, 2010, I came across this report by Lauren Viera in the Chicago Tribune newspaper.

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Petra Zimmermann: History Repeating II

Reviews / Barbara Smith

Ornamentum’s current exhibition, History Repeating II, presents a collection of recent jewelry from Viennese jeweler Petra Zimmermann. This is Zimmermann’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Her work is a reflection on the overlap between art jewelry and fashion, mixing high-couture sensibilities with a twenty-first century ‘mash-up’ aesthetic. In Ornamentum’s newly renovated exhibition space, Zimmermann’s

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GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry

Reviews / Ron Porter

The catalog for GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry accomplishes what all exhibition catalogs should. It makes one want to see the exhibition, increases understanding of the subject and supports the intent of the curator. In addition, it broadens the reader’s knowledge of the subject and provokes further interest and discussion. The exhibition, curated by Ursula

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Blue Ridge Bijoux: The Penland Benefit Auction 2010

Reviews / Ron Porter

Douglas Harling, Licorice Bee, 22k gold, black coral, ruby, diamond, pearl, ¾ x 1 x ½ inches Natalya Pinchuck, Brooch, wool, copper, enamel, leather, plastic, waxed thread, stainless steel, 14 ¼ X 3 X 2 inches Deb Karash & Lisa Clague, Brooch, Party of three, sterling silver, copper, brass, steel cable, prismacolor, graphite, gesso, 4

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John Iversen: A Designing Nature

Reviews / Ellen Berkovitch

Fluvial erosion is a process that happens in a riverbed where there is motion – sediment accreting – and then a hydraulic action as the water drags across the surface of the bed and scrapes or erodes it. Fluvial erosion comes to mind on encountering John Iversen’s jewelry at Patina Gallery in Santa Fe. You

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Reviews

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

SOFA Chicago and Outsider Art

Petra Zimmermann: History Repeating II

GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry

Blue Ridge Bijoux: The Penland Benefit Auction 2010

John Iversen: A Designing Nature

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