Today we have a guest, Jennifer Cody Epstein, whose new book, The Painter from Shanghai, is a fascinating fictionalized account of the life and times Pan Yuliang, a prostitute who became one of the first truly modern artists in China.
The ultimate underdog, Xiuquing was orphaned at a young age and later sold into prostitution by [...]
Tags: American · art · art news · literary · writing
I published this in AGBU News magazine back in April 1999 but I haven’t looked at it for ages. I came across it earlier this year and decided to post it on my blog for April 24.
Even though I was born in Aleppo, I really grew up in Toronto, which was a vastly less coherent [...]
Tags: Armenian · Canadian · diaspora · human rights · writing
Today’s WSJ tackles the artspeak debate but says something that is more fiction than fact…though like all fairy tales it does start “Once upon a time”….
Once upon a time, art writing was all those things. Critics of an earlier age, such as John Ruskin, had no problem making themselves understood, and they are still read [...]
Tags: art · art criticism · art news · writing
One author, Charles Sheehan-Miles, has decided to give out his book for free online even though it is also available for $16.95 on Amazon. Is this the future of publishing?
Sheehan-Miles blogs:
You can download and read the complete book. Share it with your friends, email it, do anything you want with it except sell it. Hope [...]
During the winter of 2000 I must’ve had the flu five times, so I decided to buy this mini-TV. I figured that if it was small enough to fit in a drawer I could still feel superior for not owning a television. When my neighbours had parties I had to use headphones to compensate [...]
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