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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Subtle humor from Britain and South Africa in Colombia
Internationally renowned contemporary artists John Wood and Paul Harrison have brought a subtle British humor to the Colombian city of Medellin with a major exhibition at the Antioquia Museum, an anthology of drawings and videos [...]
China: Reflections on Progress and Nostalgia
An afternoon visiting photography exhibitions around Beijing can take you to a China that you have rarely seen, surreal landscapes on the earth's far flung places, and the contrast of men and machine inside a [...]
A twister of energy and art in Park Avenue
Twister (Park Avenue Paper Chase), Aluminum, 12′ high × 12′ diameter, 2014. 66th Street on Park Avenue. For four months, midtown Park Avenue in New York has been taken over by swirls [...]
A Timeless Conversation on Colors
By C.C They are both painters, both in love with colors. They both have deep feelings for nature that triggers out an artist’s whims and wonder. They are 50 years apart in age and experience, [...]
Spectral Painting: Julian Schnabel 1989-1990
From the Series of Essays Ritual Practices by Elaine Smollin The picture plane by way of its reinterpretation had opened and closed by the time we, the generation of [...]