In April, Ted Noten opened his exhibition, Thirty-six Years on the Move / aka Route 36, at Galerie Marzee. In it, he presents one or several objects from each of the 36 years of his creative career, removing the hierarchy of “important” and “unimportant” projects. He placed them all together on a long strip of…
Geraldine Fenn was born on a diamond mine in Namibia, where her father worked as an engineer for the De Beers diamond company. Today, as a contemporary jeweler and co-owner of Tinsel Gallery in South Africa, Fenn loves “the whole spectrum” of jewelry, from antique to costume to contemporary. “Jewelry has an element…
June 2026, Part 1 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…
Melanie Grant, ed., The Jewelry Book. London: Phaidon, 2025. I’m not immune to the allure of stones and precious metals, but I prefer studio jewelry and unconventional adornment. Nonetheless, I found Melanie Grant’s The Jewelry Book, which focuses heavily on high-end baubles, engrossing and enchanting. The book’s 300 jewelry-focused entries feature glorious examples of craftsmanship…
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…
