Catherine Truman, In Preparation for Seeing: Cell Culture Glove, 2015, white cotton glove, glass, steel forceps, Coplin jar, light pad, Tasmanian oak and acrylic display case, dimensions variable, photo: Grant Hancock Jess Dare, Catherine Truman, and Sue Lorraine, The Theatre of Detail July 10–25, 2015 Airspace Projects Gallery, Sydney, Australia Thirtieth birthdays are always important. […]
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Exhibition view, Bianca Lopez and the Jewelry Art and Design of Manhattan, 2015, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, photo: Alessandra Zabbeo Bianca Lopez and the Jewelry Art and Design of Manhattan March 26–April 26, 2015 Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua, Italy Who says that tradition and novelty can’t stay together? This exhibit could somehow be
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Jana Brevick, Atomic Exfiltrator: Ship Seven, 2015, mixed media sculptural installation, dimensions variable, courtesy of Bellevue Arts Museum, photo: Melissa Jimison Jana Brevick: This Infinity Fits in My Hand April 17–August 16, 2015 Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA PuzzleGuts (1999) sits high atop a white pedestal, jointed silver limbs splayed comically akimbo. Cartoonish and
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Wunderrūma July 17–November 1, 2015 Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Three different Wunderrūma shows in three different locations with three different outcomes: Peter Deckers unpacks the first two quite different Wunderrūma exhibitions, one at Galerie Handwerk in Germany and one at The Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand, and ponders its third iteration in Auckland,
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Exhibition view, Ted Noten: Non Zone, 2015, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, photo: Liesbeth den Besten Ted Noten: Non Zone June 13–October 18, 2015 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Two years ago, Ted Noten had his Framed exhibition at the Stedelijk museum’s-Hertogenbosch in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. When organizing this show,
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Ground: A Retrospective Exhibition of Ruudt Peters May 22–July 31, 2015 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, President’s Gallery, Boston, USA Born in 1950 in in the Netherlands, Ruudt Peters is lauded as a prominent and provocative figure in the contemporary jewelry world. He tends to translate big ideas into beautifully crafted jewelry and, through
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Love & Loss: Fashion and Mortality March 13–June 7, 2015 Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria The exhibition Love & Loss took place at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, in Upper Austria. The curator Ursula Guttmann puts her focus on the “new realism” in fashion emerging in the 90s and influencing the scene until today. While in the
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Exhibition view, Body Jewels, 2015, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands, photo: Michel Zoeter Body Jewels March 29, 2014–March 15, 2015 TextielMuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands Body Jewels The most direct “body” adornments must be tattoos and piercings. However, one layer up and away from the skin and you are looking at textiles that envelop us from birth
Anew Negotiation: Thai Contemporary Wearable Art March 27–April 25, 2015 Bilk Gallery, Canberra, Australia Exhibition set-up, Anew Negotiation: Thai Contemporary Wearable Art, 2015, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen (gallery director) in discussion with Taweesak Molsawat and Bow Wasinondh, Bilk Gallery, Canberra, Australia, photo: Mio Kuhnen Curated by Bow Wasinondh, it is the first outing by Thai contemporary jewelers in Australia.
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Bent, Cast & Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia March 24–November 29, 2015 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA For those interested in the history of 20th-century design, the name Harry Bertoia should be a familiar one. Bertoia’s humble beginnings as a 15-year-old Italian immigrant were soon eclipsed by his ambitious and prodigious work
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Symmetry Is the Work of the Devil March 19–April 16, 2015 Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, photo: Lucy Boermans Progressing from the gentle arrow beckoning me away from the cacophony of Upper Queen Street to the hidden entrance of 10/30 and the Anna Miles Gallery, I am quietly
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Museo del Gioiello Palladian Basilica, Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy I had a wish. I wanted to be among the first visitors at the Museum of Jewellery in Vicenza. Last year, on December 24, I purchased the ticket. It was number 3. Symbolically prophetic, I thought, while hiding in my hand the precious memento. The
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