Jaqen H’ghar, a Faceless Man of Braavos, handing an iron coin to Arya Stark in Game of Thrones, season 2, photo: HBO Apart from the Olympics and the World Cup, little that has captured global attention to the degree of Game of Thrones. In the USA alone, season 5 was watched by a total of […]
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Deep within Terminal 6 at LAX, Los Angeles, California, 2015 Deep within Terminal 6 at LAX, Los Angeles, California, 2015 Finding peace in an airport terminal is fine if you’re attuned to the Zen of queuing. Luckily for the more restless among us, when personal space is being compacted and everyone is trying to avoid
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Mill Valley, California, USA—Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) will release its fifth publication, On and Off: Jewelry in the Wider Cultural Field, during Munich Jewelry Week, the international art jewelry fair taking place February 24 through March 1, 2016. On and Off On and Off is a collection of 30 short essays on jewelry in the wider
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The tabletop at Totally Thai restaurant in Perth, Western Australia, 2015 The tabletop at Totally Thai restaurant in Perth, Western Australia, 2015 Was it the shallow depth of the drinking vessels laid out on the table that made an immediate impression on my fellow diners and me, or their improbable shine? The aural disturbance they
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Photography by Eric Lafforgue. Image source: Scribol.com. If all you want right now is an uplifting story about the indomitability of the human spirit: The tribal inhabitants of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley are resourceful, resilient people with beautiful teeth. They transform garbage into treasured adornments, literally weaving the by-products of throwaway consumer culture into their traditions
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Sabina Tiemroth, Shedding I, 2015, necklace, remnants of fabric, salvaged threads/sewing, 920 x 380 x 50 mm, photo: artist Sabina Tiemroth’s exhibit, It Self, at Jewelers’Werk Galerie, showcases textile work that blurs the line between apparel and jewelry. Deeply reflective, and heavily inspired by her experiences of living in Argentina, Tiemroth’s work is a personal
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Exhibition view, Melt, Future Remains, Pennie Jagiello, 2015, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, photo: Nadja Soloviev Radiant Pavilion – Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Trail September 1-6, 2015 Melbourne, Australia A new jewelry festival has arrived with great expectations and significant challenges. How can a “Schmuck of the South” emerge from the shadow of the more established
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Image Source: Studio Roosegaarde Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, in a stunning show of disregard for everything capitalist society has to offer, has taken it upon himself to remove carbon particles out of our air. The carbon particles we’ve worked so hard to put into the air. After everything we’ve done to move society forward! Well,
Monika Brugger is a fascinating and deep thinker about jewelry. What is its relationship to clothes and to sewing. She makes subtle but provocative work with violent underpinnings. It is quite unusual but thought provoking. In this show called Damage Control at Atta Gallery she pulls together a grouping that draws on memory and on
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Earlier this year, Mia Maljojoki, a Munich-based jewelry artist, spent 24 hours in a Munich subway station “performing” in a project called 1000 Stardust. What started as performance art has now been made over into a window installation at Galerie Spektrum in Munich. 1000 Stardust explores the concept of the equality of every human being
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“I’m very worried about my body.” —Ted Pikul This is not a movie review. This is sort of about the objects in David Cronenberg’s movie eXistenZ. This is definitely about my weird relationship to creepy facets of biology, and how that somehow relates to a lot more of contemporary jewelry making than you might imagine.
Art history is a long road where precocities and delays often collide; it’s made of screams and terrible silences. As Henri Focillon wrote once, “[a work of art] is both completely absorbed in the dynamism of time and, at the same time, a universal witness”[1]: forms live through time and space, and history of the
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