It's the art show time of the year

Fall is fast approaching, as evidenced by the changing color of the leaves.
If you are going to catch some fall color up north, another friends of mine is having an art show/talk at the Ava Gallery, at 11 Bank Street, Lebanon, NH 03766. http://www.avagallery.org/
Hope you will enjoy it!

The burning question

The one thing that really intrigues me is that in every generation there is a cultural movement that raises up against “the materialism and capitalism”, and its group of intellectuals and activists act as writers and artists. Yet “the materialism and capitalism” are the mundane everyday life of the ordinary people. Does art has to be an act of moving away from everyday life? Moreover, such culture movement will only gain recognition by being appreciated by the general public, and as a result, the artists becomes rich and famous thanks to the materialism and capitalism that they are so despised of.

These love-hate relationship between art and materialism/capitalism eludes me.

My best friend's art show

I met Sunny when we were both teaching at Dartmouth College. I was at the economics department, and she the studio art department. Now she is a tenured professor there and I am on my way to become a registered nurse.

Life has directed us to different path, but we still try to keep in touch. It has not been easy. Since Dartmouth, my husband and I has our first baby, and we have been moving twice. Sunny stayed at Hanover, and remain single.

She is my first and only artist friend. I love her way of thinking and living. Everything about her is completely different from me. She is stylish, but more a trendsetter than a follower. She is a workaholic with a career ambition. And most of all, she can make things symmetrical and beautiful! Yet, we are more alike than anyone else around us. We are both from a traditional Asian family.
She has been having many art shows around the country. The latest one is going to be in Philadelphia, at Pageant-Soloveev, http://www.pageantsoloveev.com/homeframeset.html. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, please stop by and please send my best to Soo Young Park, or Sunny, as her friends call her.

MoMA visit

It is free admission to MoMA at New York City, on Fridays, 4-8pm!
So after a very satisfying solo shopping spree in NYC, I dragged my just-got-off-work-I-am-so-tired husband to MoMA for a date. Ok, not exactly a date. It was just me who wanted to visit MoMA. But, hey, it was free!

There were so many people (maybe because it was free...). At one point, I was so tempted to just sit outside in the atrium by the water fountain and watching the people-- their clothes, their posture, and the way they talked-- as my "museum visit". Despite the crowd, we managed to visit the floors that we were interested in. It was a tiring but very fruitul visit. 

When we turned around the corner at the artchitecture and design exhibition on the thrid floor, we found ourselves gashing at a breathtakingly beautiful Italian design sportscar, Cicitalia, and a motocycle and a bicycle. We both immediately thought about our son, who loves cars and motorcycles and bicycles to an extreme extend. It would have been fun to take him with us next time... maybe in 5 years!

My first blog

This is the first time I have ever writen a blog. I never thought that anyone would want to read anything I want to say. And, by the way, do I ever have anything to say?
Now, I will be blogging about art.
I always love visiting museums. I love looking at the painings and sculptures and envision what the artists are telling me though their work. It is a quiet conversation between me and the authors. It is private. I have never shared my thoughts and feelings about art with anyone else.
Now I am going to blog about it. I am kind of excited about it.