Saturday, August 16, 2008

"Painting as agitation" -- Saul Manifesto -- from NYTs

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/arts/design/16saul.html

Not for everyone, and hard to hang in the living room, but nevertheless reflective of truth.

My personal favorite, "Columbus Discovers America."

I was at US Chamber of Commerce a couple of years ago, where President Bush gave a speech, and a recently arrived refugee from Burma and I tried to decipher the heraldic shields and banners on the ceiling and walls -- Ponce de Leon, Columbus etc.

Finally we figured it out.

Comment -- copyright Kyi May Kaung.

You will love this--Michael Wood, The Story of China--ep1.

I don't have a link, but you can Google it. Highly recommended/ And now it's6.30 AM, so I'd better get to sleep.