1. Provence then and now

    There were amazing contemporary artists working in ceramics also. The Vence Chapel (Matisse), entrance, amazing stain glass inside This was near the gorge of Verdon that we hiked in and the exquisitely beautiful town of Moustiere Ste Marie recommended by my good friend Romson Bustillo. Here is my salute to the good life in a […]

    This entry was posted on June 19, 2010 and is filed under Cezanne, Fontaine de Vaucluse, Musee Prehistoire, Picasso, Provence Resistance, Vallauris, Van Gogh.

  2. Henry Moore, Steve McQueen, "War and the Body" and "War Horse"

    This shadowy photograph shows a sculpture by Henry Moore at the Tate Britain. It is in the permanent collection, not part of their new exhibition of Moore’s sculpture. It represents a sculpture based on one of the shelter drawings from World War II, with its flowing robe and awkward pose, it has been pulled from […]

    This entry was posted on June 14, 2010 and is filed under "War and the Body", "War Experience Project" Handspring Puppets, Henry Moore, Steve McQueen, War Horse.

  3. Two Iraqi artists and one Palestinian artist

    Hana’ taught at the College of Fine Arts, Baghdad University. She also earned a Ph.D. in art theory there.  Art students came from all over the Middle East and Europe, and could attend free of charge. Saddam Hussein abolished private universities. Now the University where she taught has lost its faculty to diaspora, it building was ravaged, its […]

    This entry was posted on June 7, 2010 and is filed under Dia Azzawi, Hana Mallalah, Larissa Sansour.
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