Category Archives: dragons
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@Large Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
@Large Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz is a brilliant installation about detention and freedom in the former federal prison. Using kites, lego, porcelain, music, poetry, and postcards, @Large conveys the nightmare of detentio
This entry was posted on May 18, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Contemporary Art, Detained, dragons, global justice, Uncategorized. -
Orientalism Redux 2
Last entry on my trip to England, we made another foray into Orientalism by visiting Brighton an example in architecture that long precedes the painters in the Lure of the East (see below)The Royal Pavilion is an extraordinary monument that lays out in its every detail the British perspectives on the rest of the world […]
This entry was posted on July 5, 2008 and is filed under Brighton Pavilion, dragons, opium, Orientalism.