#bluesday

[moggett]

[thejewellerybox]

2023 Heritage earrings, Georg Jensen

Oxidised sterling silver that wraps organically around blue quartz. Inspired by a sketch found in the Georg Jensen archive, the design is a classic expression of art nouveau style. £240

[wild-moss-art]

I hope everyone is having an excellent bluesday

[bowerbirde]

Summer Bloom earrings by Vak

White gold, blue rhodium, sapphire and diamond ($26,500, Sothebys)

[theeginger]

I’m blue da ba di

[hagleyvault]

This handkerchief is just the accessory for #Bluesday. The blue and black handkerchief design drawing with fish was created by textile and industrial designer Thomas Babbit Lamb (1896–1988) at some point between 1925 and 1945. To view a selection of more digitized material from the Hagley’s library’s Thomas Lamb papers (Accession 2181), just click here.

[pattokarts]

Out of Focus.

[brooklynmuseum]

🔵  Here’s a little BLUESDAY inspiration from our Contemporary Art collection, currently on view in Infinite Blue.

Jamian Juliano-Villani is a contemporary painter who mixes art historical, fashion, and pop culture references to create humorous representations of our materialistic era. Her work addresses the changed nature of everyday life in the age of the internet—the dizzying juxtaposition of images, styles, and identities in the media—amid the dissolution of such long-established standards as “authorship” and copyright.

In Three Penny Opera a blue model, recalling characters by street artist KAWS, sports an ensemble by fashion-design collective Vaquera while strutting down the runway clutching banal Amazon Prime and Key Food shopping bags. Combining deliberately confusing high-fashion culture with quotidian consumerism, Juliano-Villani offers this image as a criticism of capitalism itself by titling the work after Bertolt Brecht’s revolutionary socialist play The Threepenny Opera (1928).

Jamian Juliano-Villani (American, born 1987). Detail: Three Penny Opera, 2018. Acrylic on canvas. #BrooklynMuseum, Gift of Bill Block, 2018.7 (Photo: Photo courtesy Jamian Juliano-Villani)