September – 2015 – ART and POLITICS NOW - Susan Noyes Platt, PhD

ART and POLITICS NOW – Susan Noyes Platt, PhD

QUIET INSIGHTS INTO STRUGGLE AND JOY AWAIT YOU AT THE WING

the subtle and beautiful exhibition “Constructs” at the Wing Luke Museum features interactive installations by Asian Pacific Women Artists ranging from a canvas house to calligraphy carried into the landscapes of Seattle. Each installation is both personal and universal in their implications.

This entry was posted on September 24, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized.

Tags: Asian Pacific Women Artists, Constructs, Installation Art, Kaili Chun, Lynne Yamamoto, Tamiko Thiel and Midori Kono Thiel, Terry Acebo Davis, Wing Luke Museum, Yong Soon Min
I GRIEVE FOR SYRIA, VICTIM OF CULTURAL GENOCIDE

Henry Matthews appalled by the refugee crisis and recalling the generosity and optimism he experienced in Syria before the Civil War, agonizes over the fate of people he met there. He grieves for the loss of life and the destruction of cultural heritage in Damascus, Aleppo, Hama, Palmyra, Raqqa, and Deir Ez-Zor.

This entry was posted on September 16, 2015 and is filed under Syria, Uncategorized.

Tags: Adli Qudsi, Al-Madina Souq, Aleppo, Armenian, Bashar al Assad, Bassam Kahaleh, Citadel, Damascus, Deir Ez-Zor, Early Christian, Ehlahbel, Genocide, Hama, Khaled Al-Asaad, Palmyra, Raqqa, refugees, Saint Sergius, Saint Simeon, Sameer Tenpor, Syria, Syrian Early Christian Churches, Temple of Bel, Tower Tomb Palmyra