While the rest of us are scrambling to post our recent activity , build our brand, be a part of the online conversation, Noah is solving problems through metal. His underwhelming website is testimony…

When the news hit yesterday of the death of the world’s greatest humanitarian of my generation   you could almost hear the cries of grief — and celebration . When the tears dry and the dancing…

I’m posting this picture because if I don’t do it now I might cram this doomed project into a green garbage bag and stuff it where the sun don’t shine: in deep storage.  I’ve seen through some…

The astronomical private art-investor feeding frenzy at prestigious auction houses is light years away from art. It’s a greedy need for prestige, worlds apart from the hand of Picasso or Andy Warhol…

Nothing against the design visionary of Zaha Hadid   but all this global starchitecture looks like rich people’s toys in the wake of disasters like Typhoon Haiyan. This is no time for designers to…

I read two articles in the old-timey newspapers this morning , one revealing that speaking another language may help delay dementia and the other suggesting that sitting for eight hours a day can…

They say if you want someone’s attention, whisper. Or maybe that was just a line from a Whisper pantyhose commercial back in the ’70s. Whispering to get attention isn’t easy in an image-packed urban…

I became acutely aware that craft can pack a serious political punch when I first saw a fleeting image of an Afghan rug designed with bombs, grenades and exploding figures, created by children. It’s…

Thank god for The Walking Dead . It is the one force that has the power to kill off the overpopulation of pink princesses. All that Pepto-Bismol-hued froth and glitter kicks in my gag reflex but I’m…

Internationally renowned artist Kimsooja was verklempt at the opening reception for her show, Unfolding , at the Vancouver Art Gallery Thursday.  Her audience would soon feel that emotion unfolding…