Tag: art
29 Oct
Cape Town is one of the world’s great cities. The setting alone is worthy of top billing. And then you have a vibrant culinary scene,...
14 Sep
Honda Shoryu, Timber bamboo and rattan, 2000 There is a period missing in the timeline of human development, that of the Bamboo Age. Bamboo’s...
3 Jul
I spent yesterday with Dustin Yellin, arguably one of the most influential contemporary artists around. His pieces are fascinating –...
29 May
Sol LeWitt’s wall Friday evening, the end of a week of work, good work that I enjoy. Yet planning travel for people is work...
24 Feb
Why do I love carved wood, woven fiber, embroidered textile? These beauties, bearing the handprint of the maker, are windows into unique...
15 Nov
Piazza del Duomo An hour and a half by road from Milan is the small, elegant and refined city of Parma. In this foodie age it is probably...
18 Mar
Patrick Dougherty – Born in Oklahoma in 1945, Dougherty was raised in North Carolina. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of...
9 Feb
It was a long trip – 26 hours from my frozen door in New York, via Dubai, New Delhi, and Dehradun – that ended with a nighttime...
19 Mar
Officer Fang’s Barbarian Horse Barbarian steed, pride of Ferghana, All jags and angles, well-knit bones; Two ears cocked, sharp as bamboo...
22 Oct
Today is the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. I will have to do some googling to find out more about this event. In the meantime,...
29 Sep
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is New York’s preeminent storehouse of riches. Fronting Fifth Avenue in the lower 80’s and backing...
11 Apr
The art of calligraphy finds a new voice with a broom in the hands of Riusuke Fukahori. His work is extraordinary, not only the large calligraphic...
7 Aug
I have been waiting for two plus years for The Siam to open, ever since I met the wonderful family who envisioned this stylish and ambitious...
18 May
There is a venerable factory in France that produces, to my taste, the perfect white ceramic plate, bowl, pitcher, vase. The glaze is imperfect,...
7 Mar
One of the loveliest of the ryokans I saw in Japan last week was Beniya Mukayu in the spa town of Yamashiro, Ishikawa Prefecture. A Relais...
2 Mar
A 500-year old Shinto shrine at the foot of the new Prudential Financial building in central Tokyo.
15 Feb
I.M. Pei was coaxed out of retirement at the age of 91 to undertake the building of Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art. After traveling through...
8 Sep
Thanks to the unity of its urban and architectural expression, both classical and neoclassical and unchanged stylistically over the last two...
7 Apr
A lovely, art-filled hotel has opened in an important 16th century manor house in Michoacan’s central city of Patzcuaro. Located just half...
22 Mar
Man’s first canvas was himself. After that, Lascaux, Altamira, the rock face. Cave art became creations on wood, on plaster, on canvas,...
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