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24 ORNAMENT 35.5.2012 museums & galleries SHIBUMI GALLERY presents Visual Cadence through September 30, an exhibition of new work by artists Elisa Bongfeldt and Chris Neff. The show explores the female/male aesthetic point of view using industrial forms and textures. Often employing the repetition of geometric shapes and designs, the artists have created contemporary works which allude to the stark beauty of the industrial age. Shown are Stacked Blue Sapphire Necklace by Elisa Bongfeldt, Honeycomb Ring by Chris Neff, and brooch by Elisa Bongfeldt. 770 Camelia Street, Berkeley, California 94710; 510.528.7736. GERMANY THE SCHMUCK MUSEUM IN PFORZHEIM hosts the Universal Language of Ornamentation, through September 30. Ornamental designs count among the earliest signs of human cultural activity. Starting from simple carvings in various archaeological finds via intertwining lines to Baroque opulence, ornaments can also be found in jewelry. This show presents the wide variety of ornamental forms of expression in jewelry, from Europe, India and East Asia. Jahnstrasse 42, Pforzheim d-75173, Germany; 49.0.7231.39.21.26; www.schmuckmuseum.de. GREAT BRITAIN THE designers such as Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. The exhibition covers more than sixty years of a tradition that continues to flourish. Cromwell Rd., London SW7 2RL, Great Britain; 0.20.7942.2000; www.vam.ac.uk. VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM hosts Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950, through January 6, 2013. The exhibit is the first exhibition in the newly renovated Fashion Galleries and features beautiful ballgowns, red carpet evening gowns and catwalk showstoppers. There is a strong British design tradition of creating sumptuous ballgowns, one that has been upheld in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries through the work of THE WHITWORTH ART GALLERY displays We Face Forward: Art from West Africa Today, through September 16. We Face Forward is a season of contemporary art and music from West Africa, taking place across three galleries, two museums, four music venues, libraries, community spaces, and on an art bus. It features thirty-three artists and a host of musicians from eleven West African countries. Major new sculptural installations, painting, drawing, photography, textiles, video, sound, and fashion ask us to consider global questions of trade and commerce, environmental destruction, and identity. Oxford Rd., Manchester M15 6ER, Great Britain; 0.16.1275.7450. SWEDEN THE SWEDISH NATIONAL MUSEUM hosts Slow Art, through January 20, 2013. The exhibit celebrates a contemporary movement in fine craft where technique, materials and the work process are considered especially important. Some thirty silver, textile, glass, and ceramic objects, all of them unique and crafted with care, are on display. Inherent in the slow process of creation is respect for the audience —the kind of respect that is often lacking in today's modern society, dominated by mass production and mass consumption. Södra Blasieholmshamnen 2, Stockholm 111 48, Sweden; 46.8.5195.4410; www.nationalmuseum.se. TAIWAN cultural influence, THE NATIONAL PALACE MUSEUM in conjunction with the Shenyang Palace Museum and the Cartier Collection presents Royal Style: Qing Dynasty and Western Court Jewelry, held at the National Palace Museum's Library Building exhibition hall, through September 9, 2012. The display showcases four hundred seventy-five sets and pieces of precious jewelry, juxtaposing modern gems from the West with examples from the Qing dynasty court in China. Jewelry from the Qing court emphasizes its own virtues and connotations, the sparkle of a gemstone or its rarity not being the most important factor. Materials such as lapis lazuli, amber, coral, and turquoise were particularly valued for their colors used in sacrifices to the Heavens, Earth, Sun, and Moon, respectively. No. 221, Section 2, Zhìshàn Rd., Shihlin District, Taipei City, 11143, Taiwan; 88.6 .02.2881.2021; www.npm.gov.tw.