Too Much Is Never Enough
The relatively understated Chinese objet d’art had to bejewel itself to meet the tastes of customers in the Mughal and Persian markets.
Material Culture
Burmese Box
The material an artist choses to work with reveals much about the way she views herself. Take this nineteenth century box from what was then Burma, for example:
Material Culture
You Are What You Wear
Quick: what jewelry are you wearing as you’re reading this? Do you know who made it and what they were trying to say? What are you trying to say about yourself as you’re wearing it?
Material Culture
One Recipe for Modernisation
How to retain your own way of looking at things.