Modern jewelry and art in spotlight at Michaan’s, June 5ALAMEDA, Calif. – In 1940 the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted an exhibition titled “Modern Jewelry” that presented a new concept in jewelry: wearable art. Sculptors and designer-craft artisans were creating original, inventive, bold new jewelry pieces where form and artistic sensibility took precedence over gemstones or karat weights. Using silver, brass, […]