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From an inability to travel, to the pressure to stay home, many of us have been experiencing for the last 2 months an unparalleled sense of physical confinement during the current pandemic in the World.  Some have suggested the government's restricti...

Despite being one of the oldest and most universal forms of artistic expression, at the intersection of ornament and sculpture, the connotations of jewelry as too feminine, too precious, too ornamental or too primitive often impede its recognition as...

Flowers are a reflection of the traditional feminine ideal. They are also essential to reproduction of flowering plants, they contain the reproductive organs. During Antique times, and with the division of sexes between male and female, various words...

Design is the expression of what already exists. Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Artists and designers find i...

Amethyst is the official birthstone for February as adopted by the American National Association of Jewelers in 1912. It is also the gemstone for the 6th anniversary of marriage and the birth stone for the Zodiac sign of Pisces. It has been one of th...

“I was making a picture in British Colombia. We were on the Colombia Icefield. It was raining and there was a heavy mist around. We could not shoot and so we huddled around a fire.   Suddenly out of the mist came a man. He was not a young man. He had...

In the late 1990s, the world became aware that rough diamonds from some African countries were being traded in order to fund military conflict by rebel movements. These diamonds became known as “blood” or “conflict” diamonds.

In order to combat this,...

The famous Place Vendôme in Paris’ First arrondissement ranks amongst France’s most beautiful squares. Located to the north of the Tuileries Garden, it is a magnificent example of neoclassical architecture in France, similar to the squares of Place d...

Every artist creates to accomplish an aim or purpose, whether or not that aim is the attainment of popularity and profit. In today’s world, in order to survive in the arts it is said that an artist must master the art of selling. Without selling his...

Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning “remember that you will die”. It is the medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly g...