In September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that China and Central Asia collaborate to build a Silk Road Economic Belt, which would comprise all countries within the Eurasian region. According to Eurasian expert and…
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Traveling by train to Philadelphia, going North, you will pass by Chester, PA, a city that has been in decline for more than half a century. Founded in 1682, the same year as Philadelphia, Chester was a major…
Western Art is Barking at China In Europe and the US, for years and decades, art has become sclerotic, toothless, and somehow synonymous with grant applications, ego trips, identical-looking museum buildings, hordes of tourists…
We are living in a society where the combination of fractional-reserve banking (lending out multiples of deposits) helped along by quantitative easing (printing almost unlimited quantities of money) based on fiat currencies (money without intrinsic…
A new nationwide opinion poll in Ireland has shown that people are becoming more and more disillusioned with the political process leading one to wonder if democracy (people rule) has simply become demopsefia (people vote)….
With a deafening bang and a colorful display of fireworks, renowned Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang’s exhibition of gunpowder drawings, installations and explosion events kicked off outside the Geffen Contemporary in downtown Los Angeles on…
Review of Ard ard (Surface-to-surface): The story of a graffiti revolution Sheif Abdel-Megid Egyptian Association for Books 2011 ISBN 978-977-207-102-9 Graffiti — the art of the masses, by the masses, for the masses — has…
The Forgotten Man painting by Jon Naughton (Photo credit: John Naughton) Provo, Utah (CBS Las Vegas) – In front of the White House a man is sitting on a park bench in the throes of…
Liu Bolin makes a camouflaged appearance in his ‘Dragon Series’ photos. Chinese artist Liu Bolin disappears inside his works. Mr. Liu, a master of camouflage, has his clothes, shoes, face and hands painted to match…