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We begin with our cover featuring High Jewelry Experts Ana Blackwell and Ivan Bekichev. Many of you will be familiar with the amazing jewelry Ana Blackwell is wearing because of this year’s Oscars (worldwide press coverage). The Red Carpet featured several high profile actresses including Cara Delevingne, in a show stopping, red Elie Saab gown, wearing the Bulgari Serpenti diamond choker necklace as well as a Serpenti bracelet on the red carpet. (International news reports she was paid nearly $250K to wear the necklace). Angela Bassett, Phoebe Waller-Bridge also shone in a Bulgari Serpenti necklace at this 95th Academy Award. Zendaya wore Bulgari necklace at the 2022 Oscars and stole the show. Wait till you see our luxurious and glamorous glitter in the following pages. My interviews with our cover…
US Premiere at the de Young Museum, San Francisco March 18 - October 15, 2023 Massive, exquisitely rendered, and weighted with significance, the work proves both of the moment and transcendent of it. James Tarmy, Bloomberg Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977, Los Angeles) is an American artist best known for his portraits that render people of color in the traditional settings of Old Master paintings. Wiley’s work brings art history face-to-face with contemporary culture, using the visual rhetoric of the heroic, the powerful, the majestic and the sublime to celebrate Black and brown people the artist has met throughout the world. Working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and video, Wiley’s portraits challenge and reorient art-historical narratives, awakening complex issues that many would prefer remain muted. The works portray Black men…
Hailing from a small village in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, Tess Schoefer always had big aspirations. From a young age, she dreamed of becoming an actress or a flight stewardess, two professions that seemed glamorous and exciting to her. However, Tess’ artistic inclinations were equally as strong, and during her spare time, she would spend hours painting and drawing. As a child growing up in a rural area, Tess’ dreams may have seemed far-fetched, but that didn’t stop her from pursuing them. She was determined to make something of herself and to see the world beyond the small community where she lived. “Cliché as it may sound,” Tess reflects, “I was a small-town girl with big dreams.” After graduating from high school, Tess left her small village in Nueva Ecija and…
Heide VanDoren Betz: Tell us about your background; where did you grow up? Ana Blackwell: I was born in Yugoslavia, but grew up in Serbia. (Yugoslavia became Serbia in 2003. It formerly consisted of seven different nations: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia). I was 10 years old when the Civil war started in Yugoslavia; it lasted for 6 years. At that age, it was hard to understand but I do remember families from Croatia escaping to my hometown in Serbia. As refugees, they had lost all they had but they did have family here. It was a sad time for the people of our country. Things got better in 1997 but not for too long, as we had another war in 1999. I was almost 18…
Heide VanDoren Betz: What is your favorite piece of Jewelry of all time (historical)? Ivan Bekichev: The Bulgari emerald necklace Richard Burton gave to Elizabeth Taylor as a wedding present. I love the iconic style and the beautiful romantic story behind it. The necklace was bought back from the Taylor Estate by Bulgari at the December 2011 auction of her collection at Christie’s. (HB: I attended this auction in New York and witnessed the emerald necklace sell for $6,130,500 with the pendant brooch, another $6,578,500) HB: Why are people drawn to wearing jewels? It’s nothing new, think of all the jewels in ancient time. What is the attraction now? IB: Jewelry has played a significant role in human life for thousands of years. We learn from history that ancient civilizations…
Stepping into the world of Ron Henggeler is leaving our customary presence and any notion of the ordinary behind. A genius mind is at work, creating and processing. Ron Henggeler’s home, surely on the way to becoming a private museum, is brimming with objects and materials old and new–collectibles, paintings, sculpture, thousands of Classical music vinyl records, cameras, taxidermy, historical and contemporary photographs, art books (5000+), objects d’art and… Oh yes, a cat named Alice (in Wonderland). By most standards, it is bursting at the seams, yet Ron is working feverishly to create more art. Heide VanDoren Betz: Tell us a bit about your background, your upbringing. Ron Henggeler: I was born on July 12, 1953, in Columbus, Nebraska. I was part of the baby-boomer generation and was the oldest…
