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Women who paved the way: Margret Craver

Boston is shining the spotlight this summer on a pioneer of American studio jewelry: Margret Craver. If you’re a collector...
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Frank Stella: stunning, not-so-wearable art

Most of us know by now that Dali, Calder, even Picasso designed jewelry at some point. But Frank Stella? The...
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Joyce Scott: narrative beadwork

Joyce Scott’s beaded jewelry is often figurative, and not in a subtle way. Her figures swell beyond jewelry proportions: faces...
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Jewels by JAR: bagels to butterflies

Yesterday, I was among the salivating media who swarmed the press preview of Jewels by JAR, the exhibition opening tomorrow at...
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Reinventing modern: jewelry at the world’s fairs

Sometimes, when I’m at a jewelry show combing the aisles, checking out the latest collections and trying to sniff out the...
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Bicycle mania, Victorian style

Inspired by a Victorian bicycle brooch in an exhibit opening next month: a look back at the revolution in women's fashion brought about by the bicycle craze of the 1890s.
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Jewels, gems and treasures: inaugural exhibit at Boston MFA

Who needs fertility treatments when you can wear jewelry instead – particularly, jewelry like this? Among the earliest treasures on...
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Women who paved the way: Margaret De Patta

Margaret De Patta pioneered so many aspects of studio art jewelry we see now that many pieces she designed before...
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New JAR jewelry & watch collection for sale at the Met. Worth the price?

Joel Arthur Rosenthal designed a special collection of jewelry and watches to sell exclusively at the Metropolitan Museum with the...
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Hiding, cooling, flirting, spying: Ode to the fan

The fan represents a tradition that dates to ancient civilization, certainly in Asia. By the 19th century, fans were multifunctional...
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Jewelry by Pablo Picasso: the secret stash of Dora Maar

In case you were wondering, the Picasso in From Picasso to Koons, the Artist as Jeweler, is Pablo, not his...
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Man Ray’s jewelry by Gem Montebello

Among the rash of artist/goldsmith collaborations that came out in the sixties and seventies, Man Ray’s jewelry truly stands out....
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Jewels by JAR opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

For fans of jewelry designer Joel Arthur Rosenthal –  or JAR, as he is known – the exhibition opening at...
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I’ll take Manhattan: gilded New York, then and now

As Mad Men draws to a close after taking us through a time-travel adventure of 1960s Manhattan, I can’t help...
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Smoking Cartier: a major retrospective on display in Denver

A glorious retrospective of Cartier jewels opened Sunday at the Denver Art Museum, with 250 rare jewels produced between 1900...
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