by Maddie
Read about Hong Kong’s coolest art events at Forbes’s travel site, Startle.com.
Categories: Art, Travel • Tags: Above Second, ArtisTree, Cannoball Press, Hiroshi Senju, Hong Kong Art Basel, Hong Kong Eye, M+, Sundaram Tagore, TaiKoo Shing, West Kowloon Cultural District
by Maddie
Viewed in natural light, the waterfalls are muted, elegant, feminine. Under the black light, they become powerful, deep, inscrutable. Senju felt that in the process, he’d unearthed a duality existent in human life. He reflects, “When you look at human beings –taking myself as an example, I’m wearing suit, I look like a gentleman, a rational being. But at night, in the glow of the black light, I’m often surprised at changes in myself. I feel mysterious, dreamy. The daytime […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Day Falls Night Falls, Hiroshi Senju. Sundaram Tagore, hong kong, Nihonga
by Maddie
In 2008, Eric Clough turned heads with his residential project, Mystery on Fifth Avenue, a New York City apartment in which he embedded a fictional story replete with clues, hidden keys and historical references. Now his firm, 212box, is designing Christian Louboutin’s boutiques world-wide. The American architect spoke to the Journal about filming himself in airports, fasting on planes and dealing with airport ennui. Read more at Wall Street Journal Asia.
Categories: Travel • Tags: 212 box, air travel, changi airport, eric clough, mystery on fifth avenue, natural architecture, road warrior, wall street journal asia
by Maddie
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Categories: Travel • Tags: Forbes, hong kong, Startle.com, travel correspondant
by Maddie
Coates and Scarry, as a gallery and as a team, is a labour of love. “Did you know that Chippy is my life-partner?” Richard Scarry asks. He is sitting in the sunny Bristol apartment he shares with his partner in love and in art, Chippy Coates, an apartment which walls are hung with the likes of Shepherd Fairey, Ray Caeser, Buff Monster, D*FACE, Bigfoot, and Takashi Murakami. To the uninitiated, these names may sound like so many Lucha Libre […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Above Second, Angela Lizon, Banksy, Carlo Cane, coates and scarry, D*FACE, Hong Kong art scene, Jeff Koons, joe sorren, lowbrow, Nick Walker, Nigel Cox, pop-art, Pure Evil, Rose Sanderson, Sas Christian, street art, The Glass Magazine
by Maddie
“The question posed by the exhibition is: what can design do for the future? The answer came from the artists. Many were talking about sustainability. What does it mean? But, as with Teddy Lo’s anodes installation, finally everything changes. You cannot believe in eternal consistency, even in terms of the existence of human beings. “Maybe we will disappear one day. After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, many people started to have this feeling – that nothing is eternal.” Keep […]
Categories: Art • Tags: Asia Society Hong Kong, daniel beuys, design in asia, documenta, fumio nanjo, hong kong honey, hong kong salt, imminent domain, indonesian contemporary art, michael leung, mori museum, roppongi hills, south china morning post, sustainable design, teddy lo
by Maddie
Mumbai isn’t an easy city. At first light, it can seem steamy, sweaty, smelly, overbearing and overwhelming. But once you peel back the layers of dirt and traffic, youll find that a diamond in the rough awaits—a booming, vibrant metropolis with a sunny outlook and a level of sophistication that rivals New York and Tokyo. Keep reading at The Glass Magazine.
Categories: Food & Drink, Shopping & Style, Travel • Tags: bombay, Chor Bazaar, dome, Le Mill, liv, Mumbai, swati snacks, taj hotel, The Glass Magazine
by Maddie
The interview covers dating abroad, and navigating foreign social norms. You can hear my interview on their YouTube channel, here:
Categories: The Big Stuff, Travel
by Maddie
Yamashita has collected his photographs from two years’ travels into a 272-page photographic narrative that traces the route, beginning in Jiuzhaigou National Park and running across Sichuan and Yunnan and into the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Interspersed with this story of change are images of astounding natural beauty depicting mountains, meadows, monasteries, and many of China’s most vibrant minority areas. Shangri-La comes from Shambala, meaning paradise in Tibetan Buddhism. But these landscapes are fast disappearing. Keep reading at Matador Network.
Categories: Art, Books, The Big Stuff, Travel • Tags: Jiuzhaigou, lhasa, micheal yamashita, national geographic, photojournalism, shambala, singapore airlines, tibet, yatsa gonbu
by Maddie
I just rediscovered this essay I wrote years ago: Sometimes while I’m teaching, I try to remember my own student teachers, and I barely can. When I began teaching, I thought it would be a miracle if I could remember everyone’s name. Now I can’t imagine forgetting them. It’s strange to think that I’ll only be a vague memory to them soon. I asked my mother to send me some of my favorite books from childhood for the library. Those […]
Categories: Art, The Big Stuff • Tags: development grants, foundation for sustainable development, India, libraries, teaching art, teaching english, the talent academy, udaipur
by Maddie
Violence against women is the terrible, terrible consequence of the problem, and not the problem itself. The problem is misogyny, and the seemingly immortal idea that women are weaker, somehow less-than, and always available for the use of men. Violence against women is like the sickening black soot and exhaust that gets pumped out of a wheezing, clunking, dying old jalopy. I suppose the actual vehicle is what is commonly referred to as The Patriarchy. Keep reading at Matador Network.
Categories: The Big Stuff • Tags: delhi rape, India, misogyny
by Maddie
When National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita set out to chronicle a rapidly changing Tibet, he found traditional towns that have morphed into tourist destinations, motorcycle-riding local residents joining an expanding middle class, and outlying areas that feel more Tibetan than restive Tibet itself. See the slideshow at Wall Street Journal Asia.
Categories: Art, Books, The Big Stuff, Travel • Tags: camagudao, greater tibet, michael yamashita, national geographic, photography, photojounalism, slideshow, tibet, tibetan autonomous region, Wall Street Journal
