AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award winner and four finalists—who were chosen from among more than 135 international applicants—to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. Lore Langendries’s Hide, the Fragment series…
AJF asked this year’s Young Artist Award winner and four finalists to tell us a bit about their backgrounds and their thoughts on the future of the art jewelry field. Their work represents a group of outstanding pieces of contemporary jewelry. This is the first of five interviews with the honorees. MJ Tyson was chosen…
May 2026, Part 2 Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase…
May 2026, Part 2 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying…
Before an exhibition opens, something else is already being made. Catalogs are designed, essays commissioned, flyers printed—and, at the Pinakothek, a booklet made for visitors to fill with stamps from 42 schools. By the time Munich Jewellery Week begins, a parallel world of printed matter has taken shape alongside it—and when the week winds down,…
A head of lettuce in a hotel sink; a vitrine tipped on its side, spilling red, yellow, and black beads across the floor; 20 robotic vacuum cleaners carrying jewelry through a gallery, indifferent to the visitors trying to catch them. What does any of this have to do with how jewelry is displayed? Everything, argue…
Schmuck—or Munich Jewellery Week, depending on who you ask—is a pilgrimage, a marketplace, a reunion, or a reckoning. Each year in March, Munich becomes a temporary capital of contemporary jewelry—a week when makers, gallerists, curators, collectors, and critics inhabit the same rooms, the same openings, the same conversations. The essays gathered here emerged from that…
May 2026, Part 1 Part 2 Right now, when the world feels topsy-turvy, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them! Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series…
May 2026, Part 1 Art Jewelry Forum is pleased to share all jewelry news. If you’re a member of AJF, you may add news and ideas to this bi-monthly report by submitting here. If you aren’t a member, but would like to become one, join AJF here. Some of the news items below have no accompanying…
Helen Molesworth, Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time. New York: Ballantine Books, 2024. Helen Molesworth’s Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time isn’t just a book about gemstones. It’s a journey of human desire, power, culture, and history told through 10 gemstones. It shows how our ambitions for power, love,…
