The Shanghai Art Museum was the first museum I visited in Shanghai. The Museum was hosting the fifth biannale this year. I went to the opening night celebration only to find that it required an invitation. Since I had traveled… Read More »Art in Shanghai
While in Hong Kong (see post), I had heard from Tina Yee-wan Pang, Curator of the University of Hong Kong’s Museum and Art Gallery about a town called Hangzhou in that had the premier art university in all of China.… Read More »A Visit to the Art City of Hangzhou
In addition to painting and seeing other art on this trip, I wanted to explore the possibilities of teaching. What would it be like to teach as I have done at the University of New Mexico and Taos Institute of… Read More »Teaching at the Shanghai American School
The day after arriving in Shanghai, I went with Sepi and Paul to Pingyao, an ancient walled city located two hours northwest of Shanghai by plane. Our purpose for visiting Pingyao was twofold: to attend the Pingyao International Photographic (PIP)… Read More »Paintings from the Ancient City of Pingyao
One of the reasons I ventured out on this painting trip was because of a very generous invitation from Sepi and Paul Johnson. Sepi had attended one of my portrait painting workshops at the Taos Institute of Arts two summers… Read More »News from Shanghai
Before I left Taos, Jan Mellor had given the name of a travel writer, Andrew Leung, who lives in Hong Kong. Andrew had visited and written about Taos last year. I was staying in Kowloon, which is immediately north the… Read More »Hong Kong Central
Hong Kong is another city with incessant activity. The streets are constantly filled with taxis, buses and people from all over the world. The difference here, like other cities I have visited so far on this journey, is a certain… Read More »Visit to Hong Kong and the Art of Yang Shen-sum
