{"id":1463,"date":"2010-09-24T11:31:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2010-09-24T11:31:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:31:46","slug":"turns-out-god-is-in-the-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"turns out god *is* in the detail…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see that Marcus Westbury has been linking up all his recent articles on arts policy<\/a> (which I blogged<\/a> about earlier this week) and pointing out some of the attention he’s been getting from other quarters. On that, I feel obliged to note that I was wrong in saying that Richard Gill’s<\/a> article was in response to Westbury’s blog post<\/a>, it was more in response to a whole bunch of things that Westbury has been getting out there of late. (The dates I mentioned then do hold true, as in the two pieces of writing I mentioned, Gill’s article was out before Westbury’s post.) But Westbury has been busy on that subject of late, as is much better explained in the aforementioned arts policy post.<\/p>\n

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In some completely unrelated news, there’s been a major theft of works by Michael Berger<\/a> at Joya<\/a> in Barcelona. A whopping thirty-eight rings were stolen in a pickpocket attack<\/a>. My heart really goes out to Michael, as it is a completely awful thing to have happen.<\/p>\n

The reason why I’m even posting about this is because I’ve been ruminating on it ever since I read about it a couple of days ago. I saw Berger’s rings in the flesh at Courtesy of the Artist (COTA<\/a>) while in Sydney last year, and was amazed. They are stunning. And incredibly crafted. I was not surprised to be told that he worked under Friedrich Becker<\/a>, the pioneer of tension settings and moving jewellery (and the author of an amazing monograph of the subject).<\/p>\n

I feel bad for Berger’s loss of his rings, not just in an artist-to-artist, or even human-to-human sense. I feel bad because the tiny-yet-bold objects he created touched me in the brief minutes I spent with them. I hate to think of them lost in the world.\u00a0 Or worse, dismantled for the value of their constituent parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corrections and more – Melissa realises Mies was right, God *is* in the detail…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}