Buyer beware. As fads go, this one promises to be fleeting. Beads and bead work have been around for a scant 102,000 years. As yet, there is no sign they’re gaining any traction in the culture. A memo ...
In Singapore, women in the Peranakan community have revived the art of creating figures and geometric designs on their slippers. By Alec Scott Reporting from Singapore In October, Angeline Kong was ...
Two years ago, beading artist Yuliya Klochan was a prolific writer, armed with a newly minted master’s from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. At the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy, ...
In the 19th century, European traders and colonists brought glass beads to the United States, and Native American artists began using them in their textile embellishment work. Before beadwork, there ...
Bethsheba Mushama attends to her beadwork shop at the Maasai Market in Nakuru City on June 20, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] The beading industry has transformed from a marginalized craft into a ...
Last summer, Bowers Museum in Santa Ana debuted “Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence,” a show featuring the beaded artwork developed by a community of women living in rural ...
IT’S FOR THE EYES ONLY. TALK ABOUT A LITERAL REPRESENTATION OF EYE CANDY. SURE. SUGAR BABIES ARE NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH ON THE TEETH, BUT THESE ARE REALLY IMPOSSIBLE. THEY’RE OBJECTS OF ART. THE WORK OF ...