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16 Dec Between the Covers: Author-Artist Meet ’N Greet, 12/20
Stop in at Telluride’s Between the Covers Bookstore on Tuesday, December 20, 4 – 6 p.m. for an Authors & Artists Meet ’N Greet (a nano-market of sorts, smaller than a pop-up, right?) for Happy Hour. (After that, head uptown for the celebration at the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain...
01 Dec TIO SE Asia: Art With A Heart & Summing Up
In Siem Reap, Cambodia and in Luang Prabang, Laos, we encountered a phenomenon Paul Hawken described in a book of the same name as “blessed unrest.” “Blessed Unrest” is the umbrella Hawken hangs over grassroots movements all over the world, comprised of not-so-ordinary individuals and groups busily working to ensure social justice,...
22 Nov TIO SE Asia: Into Cambodia
Though we had spent four wonderful days in Cambodian waters during our Mekong River cruise, our experience the past three days made it clear we were only getting a slice of the bounty of Cambodia. Chhay and Sel our guide and driver had left Siem...
16 Nov TIO SE Asia: Dispatch 4, Blood & Diamonds
Note: Once again, it is impossible to load large files while we are on the Jayavarman. We plan to publish photo essays of the trip once we are on dry land. Meanwhile, please draw the images in your mind’s eye. It is a story is written...
11 Nov TIO SE Asia: Danang & Hoi An & Saigon Chaser
A fisherman gets caught in a storm, but he is rescued by a magical turtle. The turtle gives the young man an egg, telling him that he to guard it well; one day he will know why. When that day comes, when the egg grows and grows and cracks open, the five...
08 Nov TIO SE Asia: Hanoi So Far (So Good)
First impressions, as capital cities go, Hanoi is not particularly prepossessing. It lacks the sensual grace of Paris and the raw muscle of New York. On the surface, Hanoi feels more like Athens: in-your-face history, a pile-up of facts, figures and folklore, juxtaposed to serviceable structures for...
07 Oct TIO NYC: Zao Wou-Ki, “No Limits”
East meets West at a show up now at Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (through January 8): Zao Wou-Ki “No Limits” takes the viewer through the life and work of work of a master of post-WWII abstraction. According to the show’s curator, Boon Hui Tan, Vice-president...
03 Oct TIO NYC: What Not to Miss, Fine Art – So Far…
Picasso famously said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Paul Klee had no such problem: when he grew up, the iconic artist managed to hold on to a child-like vision and yet, and still,...