Note: During the installation of Lori Talcott: Jewels for the Underworld in New York City’s SoHo, the writer of this review held multiple conversations with the artist. Talcott’s quotes below are pulled from those discussions. Lori Talcott: Jewels for the Underworld, 2025 November 21–23, 2025 New York City Jewelry Week, New York Presented by Sienna Patti […]
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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
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“I like it. What is it?” This is the question Atty Tantivit asks herself when she encounters a piece of jewelry that draws her in. She’s often attracted to jewelry that resists immediate understanding, pieces that are complex, conflicting, or quietly provocative. They do not reveal themselves at once. Instead, they spark curiosity. Interestingly, when she wears
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Constellations: Contemporary Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art November 9, 2025–May 3, 2026 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, US What is a review, and what exactly does it judge? Is it the selection of works, the logic that holds them together, or the values a field assigns to itself at a given moment?
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The Fascination of Jewellery: 7000 Years of Jewellery Art at the MAKK New permanent exhibition Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Cologne, Germany A man at a display case is laughing out loud. There’s no one else around. I probably look puzzled, so he points at a bangle made of a curtain rail and moonstones. His
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This substantive, educational, and enjoyable exhibition celebrates an innovative maker renowned for his technical and aesthetic contributions to studio jewelry Curated by Rebecca Elliot, it issued from the Mint Museum’s acquisition of a large amount of Ebendorf’s jewelry from the collectors Ron Porter and Joe Price, as well as the Robert W. Ebendorf Archive The
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1984 May 20–July 27, 2024 Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal This summer, the second Lisbon International Biennial of Contemporary Jewellery celebrated 50 years of democracy in Portugal, focusing on freedom, power, and democracy. The official program presented Teresa Milheiro’s solo show, 1984, at the Zé dos Bois (ZDB) gallery. This exhibition served as a rebellion, reflecting on how
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, Art Jewelry Forum has expanded its efforts to connect more directly with the jewelry community by regularly hosting live chats online. These feature artist studio visits, talks with gallerists about shows they’re hosting, interviews with curators and authors, and other programming tied to various jewelry weeks from around the
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Still Point brought together only five necklaces and three brooches by Zoë Veness in a boutique experience at Gallery Funaki Close observation of the artist’s extraordinary folded-paper technique was possible The objects seemed to defy their materiality and have a theatricality or “stage presence” Still Point March 20–April 20, 2024 Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, Australia On
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Yaksh Verma is a multi- or “non-disciplinary” artist living in Chennai, India He trained as a jewelry designer at Le Arti Orafe in Italy His Unspoken-1 series of 25 rings showed at Portugal’s Galeria Reverso, April 25–May 20, 2023, as a duo exhibition (Terhi Tolvanen was the other artist) Anvita Jain as Project Bawra: Tell
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Jewels for Democracy and Contemporary Tiaras are among the many exhibitions and events at the 2nd Lisbon Contemporary Jewelry Biennial, which takes place through September 2024 2024 marks 50 years of democracy in Portugal. This inspired the biennial’s theme Exhibitions, colloquiums, and masterclasses explore the connection between jewelry and politics, power and policy The Jewels
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The Kātahi me Ināianei/Now and Then: Alan Preston exhibition, at Objectspace March 16–May 19, 2024, presents a selection of jewelry from Alan Preston’s personal collection Preston is a founding member of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Fingers Co-operative. Fingers Gallery celebrates 50 years in existence this year Preston actively wears jewelry, and once sported 27 pieces of
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