Placement, a collaboration between art jewelers and street artists, May 2015, Gallery at Reinstein|Ross, New York, photo: Andrew Schloss Bella Neyman is the director of the Gallery at Reinstein|Ross in New York, which specializes in contemporary jewelry. With a background in arts administration and several critically acclaimed exhibitions under her belt, she mixes writing and curating, […]
(left) Ketli Tiitsar, Second Nature V, 2016, brooch, ash wood, silver, pigment, 156 x 57 x 14 mm, photo: Tanel Veenre; (right) Sofia Hallik, Homeosis II, 2015, pendant, 18-karat gold, rubber, 132 x 34 x 34 mm, photo: Andrey Kulpin The roots of the ESTONISHING! exhibition start in Estonia, where in 1999 seven Estonian jewelry
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Vered Kaminski, Untitled, 2006, brooches, cement, sand, stones, stainless steel, 30 x 90 x 20 mm, photo: artist Vered Kaminski is perhaps the most recognized and influential Israeli jewelry artist. She has a decades-long career as an educator. Her jewelry is internationally renowned, and she is the recipient of numerous awards—including her recent acclaim as
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Installation view of … buried again to carry on growing … A POV by Ebony G. Patterson at the Museum of Arts and Design, photo: Butcher Walsh © Museum of Arts and Design Ebony G. Patterson: … buried again to carry on growing … The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, USA
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Installation view of Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, dress in foreground by Giambattista Valli, Fall/Winter 2014–2015 couture collection, tulle degradé, silk taffeta, photo: Matt Flynn, courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial February 12–August 21, 2016 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, New York, USA This, the fifth installment in the
In October 2015, acclaimed Norwegian craft theorist and historian Jorunn Veiteberg delivered a 40-minute lecture at the Danish Design Museum, in Copenhagen. Her lecture used Susan Cohn’s Unexpected Pleasures exhibition (Design Museum London, 2012–2013) as a point of departure to recontextualize the New Jewelry movement in contemporary terms and signal how current practice has “liberated”
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Exhibition view, Germany’s Upcoming Talents—GUT, 2016, work in foreground by Nadja Soloviev, Galerie Biró Junior at Galerie Royal, Munich, photo: Benjamin Lignel Art Jewelry Forum has just published three reviews, one video, and four Best of articles dedicated to Munich Jewelry Week (MJW): That adds up to eight pieces of writing, out of the roughly
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Exhibition view, (IM)PRINT, 2016, easy!upstream, Munich, photo: the (IM)PRINT Team (IM)PRINT February 24–28, 2016 easy!upstream, Munich, Germany Curated by Beatrice Brovia, Nicolas Cheng, Hanna Hedman, and Kajsa Lindberg They say that money makes the world go round but, really, it is printing that deserves this accolade. In a literal sense the banknotes and coins of
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Dealer Olga Biro presenting The End, Lisa Walker, 2016, Galerie Biro, Munich, photo: Benjamin Lignel Lisa Walker, The End February 25–April 4, 2016 Galerie Biro, Munich, Germany 1. While entering the small gallery space, what I first noticed was how the walls had been spray-painted in a sky-like light blue color. The stains of paint,
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Thomas Gentille, Untitled. Thomas Gentille. American Jeweler, 2016, foreground work: two pins in plexiglass and plywood (left) and aircraft plywood, industrial glass, maple and pigment (right), Die Neue Sammlung—The Design Museum, Munich, photo: Benjamin Lignel Untitled. Thomas Gentille. American Jeweler February 27–June 5, 2016 Die Neue Sammlung—The Design Museum, Munich, Germany Untitled. Without a name.
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Rachel Bell, Empty Vessel/Blank Slate (installation view), 2015, pendants, American white oak, 22-karat gold leaf, sterling silver, linen, cotton, each 68 x 30 x 10 mm, total 250 x 300 mm, photo: Masterworks Gallery Masterworks Gallery, in Aukland, New Zealand, is a contemporary craft gallery run by mother-daughter team Christine Hedlund and Eloise Kitson. Together,
Despina Pantazopoulou, Zero, 2015, necklace, leather, inks, linen thread, iron, nylon, photo: Romylos Parissis The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum (ILJM), based in Athens, Greece, is the nation’s only institution devoted to the presentation and promotion of both historical and contemporary jewelry. Established in 1992 by the renowned jewelry designer Ilias Lalaounis, the mission of ILJM is to enhance public knowledge of
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