Ancient Artifacts Become Modern Jewels
Rebecca Rau was skimming an auction house’s catalog last year when a bronze amulet from the ancient Central Asian region...
The Year of Manufacturing the Body. And Booty. And Boobs.
So long, body positivity. You have been crushed under a mountain of GLP-1s, corsets, panniers and bustles. So long, paying...
Hard Times in the Delta as Farmers Consider Letting Crops Rot
Jack Westerfield stood ankle deep atop 30 feet of unhusked rice, his gray T-shirt and jeans dusty with starchy powder....
In the Middle East, Jewelers See Their Brightest Prospect
On a clear December evening at a beach resort in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Sotheby’s...
The Cult of Charvet
“It’s a bit like the atmosphere of a bazaar here — we don’t like things to be too orderly,” said...
Costume Jewelry That Conveys a Designer’s Beliefs
To Kristy Dickinson, jewelry has always represented something special. “I say, ‘It’s me spewed up in earring form,’” the self-taught...
High January Is the New Dry January
On a chilly January afternoon at a Stew Leonard’s grocery store in Paramus, N.J., prominently featured in the center of...
A Heritage Jewelry House Plans a Renaissance
One of the 20th century’s most innovative jewelry houses is staging a comeback. Boivin has been known for its sculptural...
Jewelry Adapted to Modest Garb
Hannah Al-Lawati remembers the moment that, as a young Muslim girl, she realized making jewelry could be more than just...
In Venezuela, Families Search for Relatives Who Are Detained and Missing
After taking a 10-hour bus ride across Venezuela in a quest to find her missing husband, Carolina Carrizo fashioned a...
Telling the Story of Costume Jewelry
Since a close friend pinned a Trifari brooch on her in the 1980s, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has been hooked...
Diamonds, Tales and De Beers
Despite falling revenue and uncertainty about its future ownership, the multinational diamond producer De Beers Group spent much of 2025...
Is a Novel Her Revenge? Or Does She Have Worse in Mind?
DISCIPLINE, by Larissa Pham Fiction about other art forms is value-added, as they say in the corporate world. If it...
Trump Pushes A.I. Data Centers, but the G.O.P. Is Cool to One in Alabama
Kenneth E. Gulley, the mayor of Bessemer, Ala., confesses to some befuddlement as to why the people in his community...
He Helped Make Mamdani. Can He Make Others?
Morris Katz is a confident young man, but he did doubt himself last November, for a moment. The 26-year-old media...
