Art… transmediale buzz 7 Feb 2012 The Berlin transmediale is, to my knowledge, one of the very best annual conferences (a "convergence" is more the appropriate word) which exist on Planet Earth. I was very fortunate…
Beijing… Solo 1 Feb 2012 Virtually nothing was posted in January because I was parted from my main axe in Seattle; she needed work, and I needed time to teach and lecture and write, here…
Cello… No Silence for the Unsubjugated: Woeser in the Parisian Press 17 Jan 201120 Jan 2011 Han ideograms of self-praise tattoo the walls of the echo chamber of the PRC; millions of yuan are tilted downward as if out of dump trucks, rushing into the cultural…
Beijing… Beijing Noise 16 Aug 2010 Status Updates: Gulou Neighborhood: Partially destroyed but still alive, hutongs shrinking into ever-smaller pockets, festooned with banners about harmoniously participating in pre-census surveys that should effectively run most undesireables out…
American Foreign Policy… Hiatus//Documentary Smorgasbord//Steven Chu for President in 2016 20 Jul 201020 Jul 2010 I'm on the two-day cusp of departing from Taipei for the beautiful work that awaits in Seattle, and am thus taking my annual last-week-of-July blogging vacation. I would, in the…
Beijing… Nachrichten aus der Reich der Mitte: German Reportage from the PRC 14 Apr 201014 Apr 2010 Der Spiegel has been simply plundering all kinds of topics lately in its coverage of China which are worth noting. The global nuclear summit has the Hamburg magazine focused intently…
Beijing… Destruction or Facelift for Beijing’s Gulou? French Press Reports, Photos 6 Apr 201020 Jul 2010 ...faire peau neuve.... Destruction or facelift for the venerable and endangered Gulou/Drum Tower neighborhood in north Beijing? Efrafan Days, a UK-based blog, carries an essential report/opinion piece on this issue,…
Art… PRC Portraiture // Tibet Commemorations 1 Apr 20101 Apr 2010 Images 1 and 2 are entries in a large national portraiture exhibition which opened yesterday in Beijing; images 3 and 4 are Xinhua products, linked to stories about the March…
Art… French Stories 3 Mar 2010 In addition to these grabs from the Le Figaro photo blog (and one more of some beautiful monkeys in snowy Nagano), I'd like to recommend the work of Pierre Haski,…
