Jewels by JAR, and other Notable Shows at The Met

Jewels by JAR (Joel A. Rosenthal)

This Season Most Talked About Exhibits from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

So much have happened at The Met the last few months. Interwoven Globe opened on September 16th and will run until January 5th, 2014. So there’s really little time for you to go see it, but since the holiday season is upon us, museum hopping is always an open option for many of us. Interwoven Globe is one of three exquisite, must-see exhibits that are featured here on this post. It tells a 300-year-old textiles story of how designs made it from one end of the world to the other through the exchange of goods and culture.

I like how the show goes through the history of design, and not just the textile alone. It’s interesting to see how in the 16th and 17th centuries people were preoccupied with other cultures, and were being influenced by them. So the old cliché holds, the more things change the more they stay the same. Materials such as large-scale chintz, flowering trees and exotic flowers were as popular back then as they are now, when it comes to fashion and decoration.

Jewels by JAR opened on November 20 and ends on March 9, 2014. All the hype surrounding JAR is true. I’ve seen my share of jewelry expositions all around the globe, but I don’t believe I’ve come across this type of jewelry exposition before. Joel A Rosenthal (JAR) The Harvard educated American moved to Paris in 1978 and opened his namesake business at the fashionable, and opulent Place Vendôme. What makes him so different from most of his contemporaries is his excellent eye, and his genius of being unique in the way that he uses his “pavé technique – the setting of small stones so close together that they seem as a continuous surface of jewels – and uses subtle gradations of color to create a painterly effect.” Throughout his collections, JAR uses his signature jewels in classical flower forms and organic shapes to witty objets d’art. His work set him apart from the others and this exhibit will leave you with some powerful emotions. As for me, I came out of that sensuous Great Hall feeling… breathless.

https://www.highendweekly.com/2013/12/draw-dropping-exhibitions-from-jar-ink.html

Ink Art: Past as Present Contemporary China This Met exhibit is located in the museum’s permanent galleries for Chinese Art, however this is a temporary show which opened a few days ago and runs until April 6, 2014. Ink has been a powerful fixture in the Chinese culture, in fact, for more than two millennia, it’s been the principal medium of painting and calligraphy in China. This is a phenomenal exhibit that features about seventy works by thirty-five artists in various media: paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture. It is set up into four very interesting parts: The Written Word, New Landscapes, Abstraction, and Beyond the Brush.