Sienna Patti Contemporary is pleased to announce a recent museum acquisition by New York’s Museum of Art and Design. The 2017 necklace, Museum of Broken Desires: Nipples, by multidisciplinary artist Lauren Kalman, was aquired for the permanent collection. Assistant Curator Barbara Paris Gifford states: “Kalman is a fearless advocate for women and craft. Like the “pussy hat,” by making…

We are pleased to announce that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has added a significant work by Bettina Speckner into it’s world renowned jewelry collection.  A pioneer in using found photographs as the raw material for body adornment, German artist Bettina Speckner’s work transforms nineteenth century ferrotype portraits of people whose identities are now lost. Ferrotypes…

Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection  celebrates the recent gift from the renowned collector to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Opening November 16th and on view through May 28, 2018, the exhibition, co-curated by Ursula Ilse-Neuman and Cooper Hewitt, features 150 brooches, necklaces, bracelets and rings, and traces radical developments in jewelry…

We are thrilled to announce that Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has added Myra Mimlitsch-Gray‘s Split Slab to their permanent collection. They join an illustrious list of museums including Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, London’s…

Gallery artist and world renowned enamelist, Jamie Bennett, will discuss June Schwarcz’s work  in conjunction with her exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. Pioneering artist June Schwarcz (1918–2015) was one of the most innovative enamelists of the 20th century, creating a remarkably varied body of work over a career spanning more than 60 years. Her technical…