Sandy Wolters Interviews Author Scott Nagele

  Sandy's Spotlight Today's Special Guest Author is Scott Nagele To see the video interview and comments, please visit Sandy's Spotlight.I featured Scott Nagele and his novel, Temp: Life in the Stagnant...

Art Dubai 2010 highlights Diversity

Held under the patronage of the Ruler of Dubai, Art Dubai 2010 - the biggest art fair in the MENASA region, comprising the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia recently concluded in Dubai at Madinat Jumeirah...

Rock Painting Paris

CHANEL history COPY famous mondrian sand SYMBOL dior magritte crocodile pompei installation dali HERMES stella drummer irritating roman 2009 wood granite richter van gogh hirst COBBLESTONE EYE environment VUITTON advert danger cat jasper johns sun king utrillo toy painting...

Pakistan and Its Art at Asia Society, NYC

"Hanging Fire", an important exhibition featuring 15 contemporary artists of Pakistan opens at Asia Society, which was founded more than fifty years ago in New York to promote understanding between Asia and the...

Seattle libraries closed for week to save money

Seattle's main library is well known for it's tourists visiting the architectural landmark, it's a relaxed place to read and is also recognized as one of the most heavily used libraries in the country. "Just...

Art critics and scholars converge for a two-day regional symposium in Karachi

Discussions about the effect colonialism has had on non-western and specifically Asian art dominated at ‘The Anxious Century: Discourses Waiting to be Born’, a two day regional seminar on art that took place...

TrueNorth's third campus will open doors in Illinois

TrueNorth Church will truly move north when it opens a third campus church in Decatur, Ill., in January. The new location, Hickory Point Theaters, is in keeping with the church's mission to reach people who don't...

Site-specific Public Art Mural for Educational Institution 2008

Featured film captures work in progress of a permanent wall mural titled "Our Global Connections". Contemporary conceptual artist Chitra Ramanathan was chosen to create this wall painting as Artist in Residence....

Folksy Gibberish from Palin

I thought Edward Winkleman's account of this moment in the VP debate was spot on: he provides a transcript showing the actual content - or lack of content- in the answer to the question about the role of the Vice...

London's Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth stays empty - for now

There are four plinths in Trafalgar Square and one of them has been empty for a while now. Many are saying that it is being left empty for when the Queen dies, but if a statue of her is placed there, it will most...

Tracey Emin - dirty sheets and all

The first UK retrospective of Brit artist Tracey Emin has just opened in Edinburgh and the knives are out  of some critics' pockets.  It's better to have a visit and look and come to your own...

Sun & Dance in Manchester Piccadilly Gardens

The UrbanMoves International Dance Festival came to a hot conclusion. Dancers from around Europe descended on Manchester and surrounding areas on the weekend of 25th - 27th July 2008. A bi-yearly event which last...

Mexican Tonala Artisans to New York

I visited Tonala Jalisco many years ago, shopping to decorate my house, I saw so many beautiful things I couldn't make up my mind on what to buy. I finally bought an exquisitely and delicately  painted...

Italian cultural fest in HCM City

" Italian culture, arts and cuisines will be introduced in Hcm city from September 12 to September 19 under the Italian Cultural Festival.The festival will open with a fashion photo exhibition of famous photographer Max Salvaggio. With the theme “Italian fashion”,...

Pakistani Neo-Miniature Show Opens in New York

Modern Pakistani art is in great demand in the international market as well as at home. A BBC News source recently reported: "In Pakistan's increasingly speculative art market, posthumous sales of better known...

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