Installation view of Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, dress in foreground by Giambattista Valli, Fall/Winter 2014–2015 couture collection, tulle degradé, silk taffeta, photo: Matt Flynn, courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial February 12–August 21, 2016 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, New York, USA This, the fifth installment in the
Elisabeth Holder and Gabi Schillig (eds.), Schmuck als urbaner Prozess. Artistic Interventions in Urban Space. Documentation of a Research Project (Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 2015). Bilingual German / English. ISBN 978 3 8030 0784 1 With texts and contributions by: Susanne Anna, Jacqui Chan, Willi Dorner, Karsten M. Drohsel, Elisabeth Holder, Barbara Maas, Yuka Oyama,
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Exhibition view, (IM)PRINT, 2016, easy!upstream, Munich, photo: the (IM)PRINT Team (IM)PRINT February 24–28, 2016 easy!upstream, Munich, Germany Curated by Beatrice Brovia, Nicolas Cheng, Hanna Hedman, and Kajsa Lindberg They say that money makes the world go round but, really, it is printing that deserves this accolade. In a literal sense the banknotes and coins of
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Dealer Olga Biro presenting The End, Lisa Walker, 2016, Galerie Biro, Munich, photo: Benjamin Lignel Lisa Walker, The End February 25–April 4, 2016 Galerie Biro, Munich, Germany 1. While entering the small gallery space, what I first noticed was how the walls had been spray-painted in a sky-like light blue color. The stains of paint,
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Thomas Gentille, Untitled. Thomas Gentille. American Jeweler, 2016, foreground work: two pins in plexiglass and plywood (left) and aircraft plywood, industrial glass, maple and pigment (right), Die Neue Sammlung—The Design Museum, Munich, photo: Benjamin Lignel Untitled. Thomas Gentille. American Jeweler February 27–June 5, 2016 Die Neue Sammlung—The Design Museum, Munich, Germany Untitled. Without a name.
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Exhibition view (from above the upstairs exhibition room), Body Alchemy, 2015, China Academy of Art’s Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China, photo: Kellie Riggs Body Alchemy November 7–19, 2015 China Academy of Art’s Contemporary Art Museum, Hangzhou, China It started with an egg, I was told, as many things do. All things have to start somewhere,
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Exhibition view, PIN 10 Anos—PIN 10 Years, 2014, Galeria de Arte Moderna Fernando Azevedo, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, photo: Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro When working on Shows and Tales—On Jewelry Exhibition-Making, AJF’s latest publication, I was well aware that a number of important exhibitions were missing from the book, and that certain exhibition environments—in
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Nora Fok, Disc Florets Necklace, 2008–2009, necklace, dyed, knitted nylon, 390 mm diameter, photo: artist A Sense of Jewellery September 15–November 19, 2015 Goldsmiths’ Center, London, UK Curated by Amanda Game and Professor Dorothy Hogg, MBE Comprehensive survey exhibitions of British studio jewelry are not common, but just like London buses you wait so long
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Exhibition view, Second Hand, First Hand: Caroline Broadhead & Maria Militsi, 2015, Marsden Woo Gallery, London, courtesy of Marsden Woo Gallery, photo: Philip Sayer Second Hand, First Hand: Caroline Broadhead and Maria Militsi October 14–November 14, 2015 Marsden Woo Gallery, London, UK I’d like to begin this article with some bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. That is, “the thingamabob
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Barbara Paganin, Silences, 2012, necklace, oxidized silver, porcelain, resin, gold, 270 x 270 x 50 mm, Helen Drutt collection, photo: Ken Yanoviak Barbara Paganin, Dall’orto alla Soffitta (From the Vegetable Garden to the Attic) October 16–November 22, 2015 Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, Italy Barbara Paganin is a reserved woman, with delicate features and an
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Exhibition view (detail), Daniel Kruger: Jewellery and Ceramics 1974–2014, wall in the room, Stedelijk Museum’s-Hertogenbosch, Holland, photo: Liesbeth den Besten Daniel Kruger: Jewellery and Ceramics 1974–2014 October 17, 2015–January 24, 2016 Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, Holland Daniel Kruger has been around for a long time, he is an inspiration for younger jewelry artists, and he has
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To Recover—13 Artists/13 Versions/13 Jewels KLIMT02 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain October 7–November 7, 2015 In 1956, Glenn Gould totally broke the classical music panorama with an astonishing, energetic, passionate execution of Bach’s Goldberg Variations: A new language and a new approach to Bach were definitively on the stage.[1] From that moment, the sound changed, and that
