Salvador Dalí,
Étoile de Mer Brooch. The artist added surrealist details to all of his fine jewelry creations. For instance, this starfish has branches inexplicably sprouting from the body and includes two butterfly pins that were conceived as part of the design. Photo by Jake Armour, Armour Photography.
Among the many upgrades to the formerly dated space, last renovated in 1976, is a new exhibition gallery that will host special exhibitions.
The inaugural show, “Beautiful Creatures: Jewelry Inspired by the Animal Kingdom,” is curated by the jewelry historian Marion Fasel and features 104 piece of jewelry made over the past 150 years essentially, since the museum’s founding in 1869.
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There are a quite few headliners leading the June 8 Magnificent Jewels sale at Christie’s such as the “Dancing Sun” (the polished version of this diamond). But while those items claim the spotlight, a certain kind of collector may be inclined to quietly slip into a small little corner of the action: 20 or so jewels and objects by JAR (lots 136–154).
Also known as Joel Arthur Rosenthal, the celebrated jeweler is without question one of the most important American voices designing today. (He never puts out a line or collection, as his workshop famously only produces a scant 70 pieces per year.) Diane von Furstenberg once called him the Fabergé of our time.
Corrections: April 1, 2021
March 31, 2021
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An article on Monday about the revival of hunting and trapping certain predators in Montana misstated how Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana characterized his trapping experience. He said he had been trapping since he was a “tot,” not that he had been trapping wolves since that time. Because of editing errors, the article also described incorrectly the state and one of its senators. Montana is the third least dense state in the country, not the third least populous; and Steve Daines is the state’s junior senator, not its senior senator.
An article on Tuesday about the challenges faced by House Democrats in order to pass President Biden’s infrastructure bill misstated the number of Democratic House votes that Mr. Biden can currently afford to lose on his spending proposal. It is three, not eight.