Master Metalsmith: Myra Mimlitsch-Gray September 12–November 30, 2014 National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA The text running down the side of the exhibition title wall reads like a group crit word bank à la 90s graphic design star David Carson. Prefixes dis-, re-, and up- are followed by their corresponding suffixes. A clutch of […]
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Lauren Kalman: Coveted Objects September 13–October 19, 2014 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA In Lauren Kalman’s works there is little restraint, unless of course we are talking about actual physical restraining devices. The works on show in her new exhibition, Coveted Objects, continue in the artist’s tradition of making beautiful objects and well-composed
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Marzee Graduate Show 2014 August 17-October 19, 2014 Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands Gallery opening, Marzee Graduate Show 2014, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands, photo: Michiel Heffels Every year, alongside the show, space is also given over to a small exhibition of work produced by the previous year’s prizewinners. The prize, a weeklong residency at Atelier Ravary
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The Rings of Saturn June 6–October 19, 2014 Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England Take any length of string, wire, or chain, link it together at one end, and you have a necklace. This simple construction can then be embellished with, theoretically, anything, as long as it can be attached in some way to the necklace
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The Gijs+Emmy Spectacle February 22–August 24, 2014 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Curated by Marjan Boot View of the original Stedelijk Museum (A.W. Weissman, 1895) and the new building designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects, from the museum’s website, photo: John Lewis Marshall Five years. In 2012, after a shutdown, renovation, and enlargement that lasted
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Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection May 13–August 31, 2014 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A collection always bears its own narrative. This narrative is usually inspired by a folksy story about the first acquisition, a heralded inaugural object that serves as a kind of synecdoche that characterizes and sets
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Legnica Jewellery Festival SILVER April 22–June 8, 2014 The Gallery of Art in Legnica, Legnica, Poland Before I embarked from Edinburgh, Scotland, via Berlin, for Legnica (pronounced Leg’nitsa), Poland, a university colleague quipped, “Break a Legnica.”[1] At the time it made me laugh. I don’t know if you are familiar with the expression, understand the
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk October 25, 2013–February 23, 2014, Brooklyn, New York, USA Brooklyn Museum, curated by Thierry-Maxime Loriot of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Maison Jean Paul Gaultier, Paris Body corset worn by Madonna for the Blond Ambition World Tour, 1990,
Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles November 5–December 20, 2013 Salon 94, New York, New York, USA Alexander Calder, Black Metal Mask, ca.1940, painted metal; earrings, ca. 1942, silver, steel, each 76 x 117 mm, photo: Salon 94 Hand-hammered jewelry was a mainstay of Calder’s practice. Throughout his career, he created more than 2000
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Dans la ligne de mire. Scènes du bijou contemporain en France September 20, 2013–March 2, 2014 Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Circuits bijoux, parcours du bijou contemporain (“Jewel circuit, a route/itinerary of contemporary jewelry”) is one of the most ambitious cultural events concerning contemporary jewelry to take place in the past 10 years in Europe,
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Shift October 18–November 21, 2013 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Exhibition overview, Shift, 2013, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, photo: Michelle Given Within the American Midwest, it is a rare opportunity to come across exhibitions of contemporary jewelry or galleries with an art-jewelry focus. It is neither Germany nor the Netherlands, and with the
Cindi Strauss, assistant director at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, and AJF chair Susan Cummins take a long stroll through Design Miami’s jewelry galleries, and each bring back their favorite pieces. With comments.
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