Lesson series
Jewelry Jaunts
Join Christie’s on jewelry adventures around New York City. This program is designed for jewelry connoisseurs, collectors, and enthusiasts at all stages of a collecting journey. Familiarize yourself with some of the most beautiful and unusual jewels crafted over the last two centuries by seeing them in-person. From contemporary designs to historic gemstones, participate in the full spectrum of jewelry as art.
This course is an incredible opportunity to experience jewelry history firsthand in important public and private collections, as well as see some of the most incredible designers in their private ateliers. Visits include galleries, studios and workshops, museum exhibitions, antique shops and gem dealers.
This course is an incredible opportunity to experience jewelry history firsthand in important public and private collections, as well as see some of the most incredible designers in their private ateliers. Visits include galleries, studios and workshops, museum exhibitions, antique shops and gem dealers.
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Why this course?
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Exclusive Visits
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On Location Classes
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Guided Tours
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Discussion Boards
Industry Leading Experts
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Meet the instructor
Kathleen Madden
Kathleen Madden is an art historian who collects contemporary art and contributes regularly to art books and magazines such as Artforum, Art in America, and OSMOS. She contributed to Phaidon’s Great Women Artists, published in late 2019 and recently submitted texts for Phaidon’s forthcoming Vitamin D-3 book. Having completed her M.A. with Rosalind Krauss and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh at Columbia University, where she earlier attained a B.A. at Barnard College, Kathleen was prepared to be part of the curatorial teams producing exhibitions at Tate Modern, the Barbican Art Gallery, and the Serpentine Gallery, as well as initiate a Ph.D. focused on the landmark 1969 exhibition curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern, Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form as it related to site specificity and collaborative practice. As the Commissioning Editor of Contemporary Art at Phaidon, London, the premier global publisher of the creative arts, Kathleen published books such as Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography and Ice Cream: Contemporary Art and Culture. Additionally, she has since produced books with artists such as Darren Almond, Chloe Piene, Philippe Parreno, Matthew Day Jackson, Marine Huggonier, the Royal College of Art Sculpture program M.A. students, and Performa 13, published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. Since 2011, Kathleen has lectured extensively about the emerging art scene for Barnard College, Columbia University and for M.A. students and public programs at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. As an active collector she is a member of the Tate North American Acquisitions Committee, Tate Americas. Kathleen is a native New Yorker, who lived in London for eight years having returned to New York in 2010.
Patrick Jones - Course author