The dimensions of the wall showcase—33 meters long, 3 meters high, and 90 centimeters deep —are quite unusual. This is the place destined for jewelry exhibitions in the relatively new venue of the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The museum houses an important collection of contemporary Dutch and international jewelry that reaches back to the […]
Exhibition view, Fashion Jewelry: The Collection of Barbara Berger, 2013, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, photo: Ed Watkins It is to this thrill of the glorious and to Berger’s keen eye for evocative jewelry that the Museum of Arts and Design pays homage by showcasing some 450 pieces from the 4500 objects of
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The Glass House, Marzee Graduate Show, 2013, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands, photo: Michiel Heffels This unique event—incorporating the exhibition, the Marzee Graduate Prize* for the most promising students, a symposium for participants the day after the opening, and a small display of work by last year’s prizewinners—is a manifest demonstration of the passion and commitment
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View of exhibition entrance, La Frontera, 2013, Museo Franz Mayer, México D.F., Mexico, photo: Mike Holmes/Velvet da Vinci Historically, Guerrero has the rougher reputation—its mountains were home to Lucio Cabañas and his guerrilla in the 70s, for example—but Michoacán is now renowned for drug cartel activity, and during the week before I left for the
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Poster, Framed – the exhibition as a self-portrait, 2013, Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, ’s-Hertogenbosch, design: Ben Lambers/Studio Aandacht Choosing Ted Noten as the first Framed curator establishes the museum’s position as a museum of the twenty-first century with a self-appointed mandate to merge fine art, design, and crafts. Ted Noten’s work is very eye catching, and he himself
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Robert Baines, Peter Bauhuis, Manfred Bischoff, Bettina Dittlmann, Georg Dobler, David Huycke, Daniel Kruger, Christa Lühtje, Bruno Martinazzi, Francesco Pavan, Dorothea Prühl, Gerd Rothmann, Jacqueline Ryan, Philip Sajet, Bernhard Schobinger, Hubertus von Skal, Tanel Veenre, Graziano Visintin Exhibition view, Neuer Schmuck für die Götter (New Jewelry for the Gods), 2013, the State Collections of Antiques, Munich,
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Location view, Otto Künzli. Die Ausstellung, 2013, temporary exhibition hall at Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, photo: Ben Lignel For someone who is so well known (professor at Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts, perhaps the most prestigious jewelry course in the world; widely cited by other jewelers and writers as a key figure in contemporary jewelry;
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Exhibition view, Beginning Middle Endless, Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, photo: Celine Browning Beginning Middle Endless was born out of a desire to forge a connection between MassArt and Alchimia. Heather White, curator of the show and professor of the MassArt participants, collected the necklace halves from 40 students on two
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Though not widely known, Paul Mergen is an American metalsmith and educator who has been practicing with focus and purpose for 50 years. In fact, his work has existed outside the mainstream of the metal and jewelry fields, in semi-isolation, for the better part of his career. Mergen’s recent retrospective, So What 50, at the
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Jean-Michel Othoniel, The Secret Happy End, 2008, Murano glass, Saint Just’s mirror glass, metal, vintage carriage, 106.3 x 145.7 x 59.2 inches (270 x 370 x 150 cm), Brooklyn Museum, gift of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris/Miami, and the artist, 2010.11, photo: artist Throughout his career, Othoniel has referenced the body, as a whole and in
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With Nhat-Vu Dang, Jantje Fleischhut, Gésine Hackenberg, Iris Nieuwenburg, Evert Nijland, Ted Noten, Ruudt Peters, Lucy Sarneel, and Manon van Kouswijk This is the third in a new series called “in Sight.” We have asked a maker, a curator, and an historian to discuss From the Coolest Corner, an ambitious event that was just launched in Oslo,
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This is the second in a new series called “in Sight.” We have asked a maker, a curator, and an historian to discuss From the Coolest Corner, an ambitious event that was just launched in Oslo, Norway. Märta Mattsson reported on the event as a visitor and exhibitor; Love Jönsson, who juried the main exhibition, took our
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