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The article focuses on the surge of interest in George Orwell, the British author known for his works critiquing totalitarianism and social injustice, following his works' entry into the public domain. Topics include Orwell's fictional spin-offs, the shortlist for the Goldsmiths prize, and the upcoming Small Publishers Fair in London, England.

The article explores the concept of cruising as a method in artistic research and making, emphasizing the journey and process rather than the end result. Topics include the ideas of materiality, object-making, featuring the profile of Gord Peteran, Elizabeth Shaw and cruising as a method in artistic research, the role of material and object-making, and the decentering of individual authorship in favor of larger processes and systems.

The article focuses on the increase of women employees due to financial and emotional needs. It explains that discrimination between the sexes in matters of employment has been made illegal by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. Meanwhile, it mentions that several male-dominated jobs in Europe that are already accepting women include bricklayers, welders, and goldsmiths.

The article reviews the exhibition on the collections of fine jewelry from goldsmiths including Harry Winston and Jean Arp by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in November 1961.

The article discusses the use of geographic information system (GIS) technology in tracking navigation, locating wildlife and natural resources, and mapping web sites. Topics addressed include the role of GIS mapping in the democratization of information, the digitization of maps by Google Maps and Google Street View, and the online documentation of historic metalwork. The contribution of goldsmith's exotic products to production of humanist thought and Enlightenment.

The article discusses the art of making babbitt bearings. Topics mentioned include the work as a babbitt man of Alec Giaimio in San Francisco Bay Area in California, the term that refers to the metal alloy that is used in engine bearings, and the derive of the name from 19th century goldsmith in Boston, Massachusetts that was patented by Isaac Babbitt in 1839.

The article focuses on Society of North American Goldsmiths conference which was held virtually. Topics discussed include speech of Eleanor Moty covering her work throughout the decades, proved the central maxim to a successful SNAG Conference; We Wield the Hammer, a non-profit that teaches girls and women of African descent how to do metalsmithing; and work with Enabling the Future, a community of 3D-printers.

In this article author mentions the historical aspects of money. He mentions that goldsmiths would hold a proportion of their gold in their vaults and they lend out the remainder to get interest through loans. He highlights that the gold standard was abolished in 1931 in Great Britain and in 1971 in the U.S. and governments and central banks were liberated from the restrictions related to gold trading.

The article presents a profile and discusses the work of the Canada-based jeweler and goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain. The author presents a broad overview of Lewton-Brain's career, beginning with his studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). Mention is made of his development of the fold-forming technique in the 1980s. Several works by Lewton-Brain are pictured and discussed. Comments by the artist are included.

The article presents information on Ubaldo Vitali, a gold and Silversmith and an art historian from Essex County, New Jersey. Vitali, who describes himself as an alchemist, started accompanying his father and grandfather to their workshops at the age of four. He completed his first commission, a gold pen and inkstand for Pope John XXIII at the age of 18. He is also involved in conservation and restoration work for museums.

The article discusses the decorative artist Emanuela Aureli and the minimalist designs of her jewelry. Topics include the ways her decorative art makes their wearer self-aware, the hollow design of her jewelry that promotes lightness in weight, and her ring series called Play Rings which are designed for play. Also discussed are her international training and her training of the lost-wax process under apprenticeships with Italian master goldsmiths Vincenzo Quattrocchi and Gianna Usai.

The article focuses on gold as artistic media. It cites a goldsmithing technique practiced in ancient Mesopotamia and Minoan Crete called granulation which affixes patterns of tiny gold balls onto a gold surface. In 1968, painter Robert Kulicke perfected this technique and established the Kulicke Academy for goldsmiths on upper Broadway in New York. One of the goldsmiths successfully practicing contemporary granulation is former Georgetown University professor of art Daniel Brush.

Profiles goldsmith John Paul Miller. Family background of Miller; Interest of Miller in enameling; Remarks from Allan Heywood of Heywood Enamels on the works of Miller; Treatment of jewelry-making as a process of infusing a form with feeling by Miller.

The article focuses on the works of jeweler Vera Siemund. Siemund is a young German who apprenticed in goldsmithing at the Staatliche Zeichenakademie in Hanau, Germany before studying at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, from which she graduated in 2001. The art of Siemund exemplifies cultural historian Wendy Steiner's humanistic definition of beauty as not a thing but a relationship in which value is revealed. Classical references are seen in in the use of amphora by Siemund.

This article features artist and goldsmith Kevin Coates. Coates was born in Kingston, Surrey, England, and felt an affinity for both music and art at a very young age. He received degrees in jewelry design at the Central School of Art in London, England and then at the Royal College of Art in London. Coates says, music and art have always been so intertwined in his life that one automatically influences the other.

Focuses on the 18th century art metal-work of Rundell and Bridge and its successors. Reason why Rundell and Bridge was not well known during its time; History of the success of this art metal work enterprise; Developments in the business operation of the company; Appointment of Rundell and Bridge as one of the royal goldsmiths in Great Britain; Description of the company's various art metal-works.

The article presents the Native American jewelry of 20 living masters in North America. Accordingly, the new research reveals the origins of gold in Native American jewelry. Moreover, three elder smiths have individually confirm that art of goldsmithing in American Southwest precedes the 1680 Pueblo Revolt for independence. The jewelry masters include Jesse Monongya, who advances contemporary jewelry and collaborates with his son, Bo Monongya, combining worlds of fine contemporary jewelry and traditional lapidary. Master Hopi jeweler Verma Nequatewa collaborates with her uncle, Charles Loloma from 1967 to 1991 and shares the four elements of making the jewelry work. Cherokee jeweler Larry Golsh makes contemporary works of art as wearable jewelry of precious materials.

Provides information on Indian jewelry making and some examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century gold jewelry from South India. Symbolic use of gold in India; Tools used by Indian goldsmiths; Factors that account for the high quality of the jewels produced in India in the nineteenth century according to Oppi Untracht; Features of the two Hinged Gorgets and the Temple Necklace.

Features "The Art of Gold" traveling exhibition organized by the Society of North American Goldsmiths and toured by Exhibits USA. Number of works included in the exhibit; Value attributed to gold by different civilizations; Information on the exhibition pieces; Development of the use of gold in art crafts in the U.S.

Profiles the jewelry artist Thomas Mann in Pennsylvania. Educational background; Design, creation and motif of the jewelry; Involvement of Mann in the Society of North American Goldsmiths.

Features goldsmith Rob Greene. Educational background; Choice to become a designer of fine gold and gemstone jewelry; Information on Greene's architectural influences.

Profiles Hoeu Sareth, a goldsmith at the Toul Tompoung Market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Information regarding services to the royal family of Cambodia; Description of market stall; Product offered at the shop; Details on the precious stones of Cambodia.

Profiles goldsmith Robert Baines. Significance of color to the artwork of Baines; Characteristics of several of his metalwork pieces; Information on his research on antique Etruscan jewelry.

Profiles goldsmith and jewelry designer Lilly Fitzgerald. Inclusion of Fitzgerald's works as part of the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts; Fitzgerald's no-frills approach to fabrication; Combination of distinctive stones, minerals and specimens in whimsical and unexpected ways; Sources of design inspiration.

The article describes the design and construction of the dome at the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy by Filippo Brunelleschi. Filippo Brunelleschi, a notary's son who grew up in the shadow of the cathedral, showed an early knack for solving mechanical problems. While apprenticing as a goldsmith, he designed one of the first alarm clocks. He also worked out the principle of the vanishing point. Construction took 16 years. During that time Brunelleschi directed a dozen other projects, including churches and fortifications. Obsessed with work, he never married, bathed infrequently and wore dirty clothes. At the end of the project the Opera again forced him to compete with other architects, this time to design a lantern for the dome's top.

The article presents an interview with goldsmith Femke Agnes Toele who discusses her inspiration on building FLUX personal computer (PC), her use of Intel NUC 5i5RYK motherboard for the PC, and using aluminum and Plexiglas as materials for her PC.

The article examines the gold art objects discovered in Butuan, Philippines that are now part of the exhibition "Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms" at the Asia Society Museum in New York City. Topics discussed include trade links between the Philippines and China between the 10th and the 13th century and indications that Butuan's goldsmiths were inspired by Chinese gold and silver vessels as well as ceramics.

Focuses on the collaboration between metal worker David Monette and goldsmith Tami Dean. Significance of acoustic resonance in their production of brass musical instruments; Description of their works; Information on Monette's approach to metalwork.

The article discusses the works of Pat Flynn as a jeweler and goldsmith in the U.S. A stroll through Flynn's personal collection reveals the turnings that the artist himself often misses in telling his own story. Flynn's first forged pieces were completed with Ronald Pearson at Haystack and show the early promise of delicacy of form and sinuous forged line. He has pursued the semiotics and aesthetics of the nail through permutations of found object to the formality of pure line in his work.

Features the works of gold/silversmith Myra Mimlitsch Gray. Scope of the work of Mimlitsch Gray; Techniques and styles used in smithing; Description of her hollowware series.

Examines the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries exotic art objects by goldsmiths in Augsburg, Germany. Transformation of precious shells, ostrich eggs, elephant tusks and other materials into decorative receptacles; Factors that attracts 16th century artisan's to Augsburg; Notable pieces crafted by Augsburg artisans.

The article reviews the exhibition "Carl Faberg&eacute--Goldsmith to the Tsar," at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden from June 6 to October 19, 1997.

The article offers information on institutes or centers that offers a variety of creative metalsmithing classes for both novice and experienced students. It mentions the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco, California which provides professional instruction for students at all levels. It cites the Clear Creek Academy of Jewelry and Metal Arts in Denver, Colorado which has workshops in silversmithing, goldsmithing, and lapidary. Studio 53 in Clifton, New Jersey is also included.

The article offers information on the Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference held at Chicago, Illinois in 2019 for celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Topics discussed include lecture of artist Namita Gupta Wiggers on the native eurocentrism of art history, "Coming of Age" exhibition co-curated by Mary Raivel and Mary Fissell; and a panel discussion including Robert Ebendorf, Helen Drutt English and Nicole Jacquard.

The article reports on the midnight robbery of the three branches of jewelry shop of Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Association in Mayfair, London, England. It states that the thieves first swept the rings, bracelets, watches and necklaces that worth 110,000 dollars in the first branch, followed by the branch store in Burlington Arcade, and the last branch where they get 140,000 dollars worth of jewelries. In this regard, the robbery is cosidered the biggest robbery in the history.

Tucked away in her late 19th-century Brooklyn brown-stone, Elizabeth Jamieson is busy making her own jewelry in the tradition of centuries of artists before her. She learned goldsmithing skills at the Kulicke-Stark Academy of Jewelry Art under the tutelage of Robert Kulicke, who had revived the ancient technique of granulation and sought to share it with others. Jamieson divides her time between teaching the fine art of jewelry-making and managing the school, and executing her own designs in the tradition of the Greek and Roman craftsmen.

The article traces the origin of the word Zargari. Zargari is the only Indo-Aryan language spoken in Iran, and is descended from Balkan Romani dialects. This linguistic provenance attests to the fact that Roma people re-emigrated to Iran out of Europe after their initial travel across the Iranian plateau from northern India some 1,000 years ago. Zar is Persian for gold and gar is a suffix denoting a doer, so the Zargari were traditionally goldsmiths. Nowadays they are farmers, subsisting on grain and cattle. Zargari, like all Romani languages, has many loan words, in this case taken from its nearest neighbours, but also Greek.

The article offers information on the works of goldsmith, Bhagwan Das Soni. Topics discussed include Amulet Necklace made of silver, glass, paper and paint, wrist bracelet of silver, and silver anklets and bracelets, and Gold Foil Silver Necklace; carved anklets of silver worn by tribes people of Madhya Pradesh; and Trunk show featuring silver anklets and bracelets made by Soni.