a few posts about my artwork...

radio interview on art exhibit
Click on the words above to hear my interview on the local Madison radio show WORT's 8 o'Clock BUZZ with Jonathon Zarov about my art exhibit titled "veiled ramblings."

Exhibit lifts veil on Middle Eastern tradition
Click on link above or below to read Lindsay Christian's review of my exhibition, "veiled ramblings"...

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  new photos of my work in the 50/20 exhibit!

  "Kuwait 50," acrylic and collage on MDF, 2011, 202 cm x 202 cm ...you might have seen the below Link before but they added some new and c...
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  review of my work in the 50/20 exhibit!

  Exhibition 50/20 Part II|The Sultan Gallery « pretty green bullet
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  last chance to see 'veiled ramblings'

  William Andersen, Global Brands Kids (Kuwait Series #1) , 2010, oil, ink & acrylic on digital print on canvas, 36 x 26 inches. veiled ...
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  my artwork in exhibition TONIGHT!

  Mary Louise Schumacher says, "...MAM will be showcasing some of our community's most important artists, including Liz Smith, Wi...
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  my artwork exhibited at Bayt Al-Othman

  Two of my artworks are on exhibit for the "17th Cultural Festival of Qurayn" at Bayt Al-Othman this January.  They produced a very nice cat...

Ai Weiwei to challenge tax demand

Ai Weiwei to challenge tax demand

www.bbc.co.uk

Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei says he will use money loaned from supporters to challenge his tax demand in court.

Ai Weiwei named most powerful person in art world

Ai Weiwei 'most powerful artist'

www.bbc.co.uk

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is named the most powerful person in the art world, according to a poll compiled by ArtReview magazine.

my artwork in exhibition TONIGHT!

Mary Louise Schumacher says, "...MAM will be showcasing some of our community's most important artists, including Liz Smith, William Andersen, Steven Burnham, Juan Juarez, Michael Julian, Mat Rappaport, Chris Smith, Dan Klopp, Christopher Niver, Marc Tasman, Gary John Gresl, Mark Klassen, artist team Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg, Peter Barrickman, Kim Miller, Harvey Opgenorth, John Riepenhoff, Paul Amitai, Steve Wetzel, Iverson White and Tate Bunker." 

This week in art: tough choices - JSOnline

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This week is shaping up to be one of those weeks when hard choices must be made. Friday night, the Milwaukee Art Museum will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special MAM After Dark event.

lecture at Milwaukee Art Museum: Emperor Qianlong & Tibetan Buddhism

The Qianlong Emperor as Manjusri,

the Bodhisattva of Wisdom,

 mid-18th century, Tibetan but 

face painted by Giuseppe

Castiglione (Lang Shining) ,

 (Italian, 1688-1766)

I am back in Milwaukee (Aug. 1-16) and I plan on going to this...  hope to see you there!

Lecture: Palace Tantra: Emperor Qianlong’s Fascination with Tibetan Buddhism

THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2011, 6:15 PM

Lubar Auditorium of the Milwaukee Art Museum

Free with Museum admission (first Thursdays of the month  are FREE!!!)

Explore the emperor's interest in Buddhism, as reflected in his art collection, with John Johnston, Coates-Cowden-Brown Curator of Asian Art, San Antonio Museum of Art.

Sponsored by the Fine Arts Society

This lecture is presented in conjunction with the Museum's summer-long CHINA series, five exhibitions covering 3,000 years of Chinese art and culture.

John Johnston assumed the Coates-Cowden-Brown Curatorship of Asian Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) in February 2009. Mr. Johnston received his training at the University of Hawaii (MA, 1995) and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. He has conducted lengthy art historical fieldwork in Bhutan, China, Thailand, and Japan. Previous work includes university-level teaching and auction house experience. Mr. Johnston's research interests include the Buddhist art of Bhutan, Chinese porcelain and ceramics, jade, and the history of printing. Mr. Johnston speaks locally, nationally, and internationally on these and other topics.

Articles by Mr. Johnston have appeared in Orientations, Arts of Asia, Far Eastern Economic Review, and other publications. He is co-author and co-curator of the internationally acclaimed catalogue and exhibition The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Mr. Johnston is project director, curator, and catalogue co-author for the forthcoming international exhibition 5,000 Years of Chinese Jade Featuring Selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan organized by SAMA (opens September 30, 2011). Exhibitions at SAMA curated by Mr. Johnston include Music in Medieval China, Seasons of Beauty: Yoshitoshi's Thirty-two Aspects of Daily Life, and the forthcoming exhibition Chinese Cricket Cages: The Ernest K.H. Lee Collection (opens December 9, 2011).

Putting Ai Weiwei in perspective, the MAM panel - Art City

From: Mary-Louise Schumacher

The panel on Ai Weiwei put the artists "release" in perspective and was both a condemnation of MAM's initial response and, to a lesser degree, a vindication of sorts as well.

Putting Ai Weiwei in perspective, the MAM panel - Art City

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It was telling that it was the political science professor and not the art experts who best articulated the meaning of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's detention at a recent panel discussion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

See also:

• Panel Discussion: Ai Weiwei: The Collision of Art ...
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• Ai Weiwei accepts visiting lecturer position at Be...
• Ai Weiwei's sister gives details of his confinemen...
• seems like Berlin is the place to be (at least for...
• more "dissidents" heading to Germany...
• two very smart, very perceptive, but opposing view...
• more on Milwaukee's Summer of China from Thirdcoas...
• contemporary Chinese art lecture TONIGHT!

contemporary Chinese art lecture TONIGHT!

Shi Xinning - Conemplating Duchamp (2006)

Milwaukee Art Museum

 

Tonight: Join Melissa Chiu from the Asia Society for a special lecture on contemporary Chinese art. Lubar Auditorium, 6:15 p.m., free with Museum admission, and air conditioned!

more on Milwaukee's Summer of China from Thirdcoast Digest

Milwaukee Art Museum's Grinning Chinese Warriors | ThirdCoast Digest

thirdcoastdigest.com

Yue Minjun's large-scale work is witty, visceral and political.

Art, politics, China and Ai Weiwei : A panel discussion at MAM | ThirdCoast Digest

thirdcoastdigest.com

As the Milwaukee Art Museum runs a major show of Chinese art, a daring artist collides with a totalitarian state.

A vast China show at the Milwaukee Art Museum | ThirdCoast Digest

thirdcoastdigest.com

A once-in-a-lifetime convergence of Chinese art from the Forbidden City and beyond.

two very smart, very perceptive, but opposing views on the new China

Wang Qingsong, Requesting Buddha No. 1, 1999.

Counterpoint - Debunking Myths About China ... - New York Times
18 Jul 2011 – Hypotheses that do not stand up to facts and yet still dominate people's consciousness are harmful.



China will NEVER be the next global Superpower
China: The Next Superpower? By. Lior Paritzky. – July 20, 2011 ... A general feeling around the world that China will be the next global superpower is ...

Ai Weiwei's sister gives details of his confinement

 

Ai Weiwei's sister gives details of his confinement

www.washingtonpost.com

 

Dissident artist who was released last month after 81 days in a Beijing jail on tax evasion charges, spent his days of confinement in a tiny room with only a bed for furniture, and two police officers who closely monitored his every gesture.

Panel Discussion: Ai Weiwei: The Collision of Art and Politics

Tomorrow 6:15pm

Panel Discussion: Ai Weiwei: The Collision of Art and Politics

www.mam.org

Join Melissa Chiu from the Asia Society, New York, Kathryn Kanjo from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Barrett L. McCormick from Marquette University, and Brady Roberts from the Milwaukee Art Museum as they discuss issues surrounding art and politics, including the recent situation with contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Lubar Auditorium

Free with Museum admission

Ai Weiwei's Mother Talks about Son’s Detention, NTD Exclusive -- NTDTV.com

 Notice the banners the doors to Ai's studio?  Did you see who put them up?  I thought I recognized  someone in early photos of the banners on the web and I think you might know who it is!  Anyone care to guess?

 Exclusive interview with Gao Ying, Ai Weiwei's mother via NTD TV

Ai Weiwei's Mother Talks about Son’s Detention, NTD Exclusive -- NTDTV.com

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Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is now out of custody and on bail. But so far, the artist hasn’t talked to the media about his 81 days in detention. This is a condition of his bail. Ai was once an avid Twitter user. Now he’s reportedly banned

Mary Louise Schumacher on Ai Weiwei's release

What does Ai's release and our reactions to his detention mean, in the long run? -- Art City

www.jsonline.com

 

Some days are better than others. Today was one of those days. Artist and activist Ai Weiwei was released by Chinese authorities on bail Wednesday. The news circled the globe quickly, as did news that he was home, with family and seemingly well. Ai’s detention sparked condemnation from political leaders around the world, and international protests that reached all the way to the Milwaukee Art Museum...

Ai Weiwei's cousin 'to be released'

Some of Ai Weiwei's associates maybe released soon but others are still missing... also, another good argument that public pressure did work:

"This outcome makes clear that great international public pressure plus significant domestic and personal guanxi [connections] can be a potent combination even in the case of someone who went further than anyone before him in openly thumbing his nose (and other body parts) at the Communist regime. Undoubtedly, Ai's star talent, his family history and global support from the artistic community helped a lot."  -Professor Jerome Cohen, a leading expert on Chinese criminal law

Ai Weiwei's cousin 'to be released' | World news | The Guardian

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Driver Zhang Jinsong among several associates who disappeared with freed Chinese artist...

Ai Weiwei's release shows power of public pressure

Peter Foster, of the Telegraph.co.uk, makes a pretty convincing argument on how public pressure did have an impact on Ai Weiwei's release:

Ai Weiwei's release shows power of public pressure

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Peter Foster - 

This case is not over yet, but Ai's release is, for my money, a reminder that when intense international public pressure is brought to bear on China, it can have a positive effect. “Without the wave of international support for Ai, and the popular ...

Day 80: Leeway and possibility - Art City

Even though I just heard the news that Ai Weiwei is out (we will have to wait for more details but Human Rights Watch says, ‎"His detention was political and his release is political. It is the result of a huge domestic and international outcry that forced the government to this resolution … I think Beijing realised how damaging it was to hold China's most famous artist in detention,"), I am still sharing Mary-Louise Schumacher wonderful posts on Art City (maybe the last).  Art City has been posting an excerpt from Ai Weiwei's blog daily during the Milwaukee Art Museum's "Summer of China."

Day 80: Leeway and possibility - Art City

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The detention of Ai Weiwei, China's most outspoken and famous living artist, cannot be separated from the story of his father, the renowned poet Ai Qing, who also criticized the Communist regime.

Day 79: I refuse to become one of the casualties - Art City

Day 79: I refuse to become one of the casualties - Art City

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On March 24, 2009, Ai Weiwei answered questions from the general public in an online Q&A about his citizen investigation, a gathering of information about the thousands of children who died in poorly constructed schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. One of the questions was this: Will you...

Day 78: If everyone told the truth - Art City

Day 78: If everyone told the truth - JSOnline

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On March 24, 2009, Ai Weiwei answered questions from the general public in an online Q&A about his citizen investigation, a gathering of information about the children who died in poorly constructed schools during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. One of the questions was this: Mr. Ai, what do you think...

Day 77: I posted every day - Art City

Day 77: I posted every day - Art City

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On May 28, 2009, Ai Weiwei's blog was obliterated from the Internet in China. In March of this year, MIT Press published an English translation of the blog and other writings. A few weeks later, Ai was detained by Chinese authorities, presumably for being his ongoing, high-profile critiques of the g

Day 76: Yesterday I Cut My Hair - Art City

Day 76: Yesterday I Cut My Hair - Art City

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A few weeks ago, local artist and art agitator Mike Brenner shaved his head to look like that of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. What follows is Ai's blog post the day he got that odd do, with two tufts of hair on either side of his head.