Double Feature: Fabulously Ordinary & Fearlessly Self-Made

Jewelry That Makes You Think.

This week we have a little extra content for you!

Read on for this week's two featured articles.

EXHIBITION REVIEW

FEARLESSLY SELF-MADE

A Review of Drag Power

by Saskia Kolff

The exhibition Drag Power - Gender, pride & glamour spotlights drag queens and kings. They metamorphose in larger-than-life male, female, or even alien personas, and back. An alluring lust for life radiates from their theatrical performance. What is it that does the trick? The clothes, the wigs, the jewelry? Drag Power, although it shows many accessories, invites you to look beyond that outer layer.

Image caption: R’JEAN by Arjan van Nieuwkoop, Angelina Loqui, photo from the series Drag Royals Each Side Has a Face, 2018, photo courtesy of CODA

BOOK REVIEW

FABULOUSLY ORDINARY

Lyle XOX: Head of Design

by Rebekah Frank

Let's push the conversation about art jewelry by looking at a makeup artist from the drag and fashion world who photographs himself while wearing trash on his head, shall we? Lyle Reimer’s fantastic assemblages, captured with formal portrait photography, are collected in Rizzoli’s stunning new linen-bound coffee table book , Lyle XOX: Head of Design . W hile they don’t show wearables in the traditional sense, Reimer’s portraits add to the art jewelry conversation if we consider the materials, methods, and style of the work used to create them.

Image caption: Page 121 of the book Lyle XOX: Head of Design , photo courtesy of Rizzoli

FEATURED AJF LIBRARY CONTENT

A transcript of a lecture Kinga Zobel gave at Galerie Platina about quality in art.

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