“Jewelry is the world’s oldest art form, predating cave paintings by tens of thousands of years…” So begins the journey through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s latest exhibit Jewelry The Body Transformed, a thoughtful exploration of the very nature of adornment and our human fascination with fine jewelry. “Through history and across cultures, jewelry has served to extend and amplify the human body, accentuating, enhancing, distorting and transforming it,” the exhibition tells us. No wonder we are so obsessed with it.
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