Miami Basel – Time to Play
Dale ChihulyGlass Sculptures at Fairchild Tropical Botanic GardenPhoto by Gustavo Taborda by G. & G. Taborda Miami’s largest art event of Art Basel this year is infused into the city itself, transforming it to become an art playground, where artists, galleries, art organizations from all over the world have invited the public to be part of the [...]
In Black Ink Qian Shaowu Nudes Shine
The female body is sometimes best depicted by curvy lines in black ink on white paper, as Qian Shaowu seems to tell us. Well known for his massive heroic sculptures and calligraphy, Qian’s paintings at the group exhibition “Ink and the Body” at Ink Studio in Beijing constitute a more intimate look into his body of work. This is a [...]
Art in a Place of Wisdom and Knowledge
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2014 Contemporary art often crosses the line of pure art expression or craft. It contributes to building a culture, thus encompassing many different creative fields, such as film making, literature, political issues, and even spirituality. At the recent 11th Ubud Writers Readers Festival in Indonesia, we experience art that is manifest in such [...]
Being There: Lewis and Li
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin It’s common to see the ideals we project through visual means fall away from their central aim, which is, to provide a testament to life unmediated. And so it is, that if an image fails our abilities to provide its abstraction, the conditions we depict are rendered irrelevant. That [...]
A Day in an Artist Village in China
Chinese artists have been pushed from one village to another, evicted from here to there. They disperse and come together again and again. The story of Yuan Ming Yuan Artists Village in the western part of Beijing began in the 18th century as the oldest center for the arts in China. In the early 1990s, artists arrived [...]
Echoes of Struggle and Triumph
The Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik, according to Croatian tourist brochures, schedules an important local artist during the busy summer months. No more details were given but I decided to go anyway. The short walk from the walled old city circled around a beach where hundreds of people were taking a dip in the deep blue sea while party [...]