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Women who paved the way: Marianne Ostier

Marianne Ostier was the innovative designer behind Ostier, Inc., a Manhattan jewelry firm she ran with her husband, an Austrian court jeweler, after they emigrated in 1938. Ostier was known for organic textures and designs that reflect her training as an artist and sculptor.

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Jewelry by famous artists

Picasso, Max Ernst, Georges Braque, Salvador Dali and Man Ray all designed jewelry, as did a surprising number of other 20th-century sculptors and painters. Much of it goes on display this week in Barcelona.

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Helen Drutt: advocate of contemporary studio jewelry

Few people have done more to push contemporary studio art jewelry forward than Helen Drutt. She was teaching craft history...

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Jewelry by Modern artists: Calder, Picasso, Braque and Man Ray

Many famous twentieth-century painters and sculptors designed in jewelry at some point in their careers, usually in close collaboration with trained goldsmiths. Most of it looks a lot like their art - and some of it opened doors for both celebrity designers and creative studio jewelry.

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Art Smith & Sam Kramer: heyday of Modernist jewelry

While musicians and poets were rebelling against the status quo in Greenwich Village in the mid-20th century, metalsmiths like Art...

Femme métal: women who paved the way for today’s jewelry designers

What to do with your wedding ring after the marriage ends

Ananda Khalsa: an artist-run studio/gallery in a college town