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Jewels, Gems, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern

Damian Skinner

Framed in this way, different kinds of jewelry production can co-exist and command attention. Art doesn’t automatically win out here, since the curator has established a set of rules for what jewelry does. These rules are bigger than contemporary jewelry’s realm of expertise, meaning contemporary jewelry isn’t the only answer to the problems that these objects address.

Jewelry By Visual Artists in Italy: A Critical Review

Maria Cristina Bergesio

Italy is much more reluctant to allow jewelry the possibility of being a free creative expression, free to develop and interpret the spirit of the moment. In Italy, proposing jewelry as a creative medium of expression provokes stonewalling: the jewelry world doesn’t consider it jewelry and the art world doesn’t recognize its creative research value.

Atelier Janiye and the legacy of Master Jeweler Miye Matsukata

Damian Skinner

In the 1950s, Miye Matsukata formed an atelier with two other graduates of the School of the MFA in Boston. The name, Atelier Janiye, was a combination of their given names. By 1958 Matsukata had become the sole owner of the studio and she continued to work there, joined by other jewelers, until her death in 1981.

Picasso to Koons: The Artist As Jeweler

Bella Neyman

One comes to realize halfway through the exhibition that the sculptor is a better jewelry designer than a painter. This is not unexpected, as sculptors understand three-dimensionality better. They are simply making another sculpture but on a smaller scale.

Jewelry: The Appraiser and the Appraisal

Karen Lorene

Is it time to consider insuring, donating or dispersing your art jewelry collection – or any of your jewelry? A necessary part of such a process is obtaining an appraisal; before getting the appraisal, you need to find an appropriate appraiser.

Collective Efforts: Donating Contemporary Jewelry to a Museum

Nancy Worden

Collect as much information about the work as possible when you acquire it, especially a good photograph taken shortly after it was made. Keep receipts, publication credits, exhibition credits, sketches, correspondence with the artist and so on.

The Victory of Non-Precious Handwork: The Marzee Graduation Exhibition 2011

Liesbeth den Besten

The Marzee graduation show is not a predictor of who is going to make it in the future. You cannot extract from two or three pieces if a jeweler is really talented, if he or she has enough guts, ideas and endurance to go deeply, if a jewelry infrastructure will develop in Asia and if there are enough clients for so many jewels. Life only starts after graduating.