What is an ideal worth striving for? To the Chinese nation, it is peace. Peace which promotes the arts of calligraphy and the game of chess. It is this objective of civil administration of society, wherein all people’s focus is on achieving the same common objective: more availability for fulfilling their artful desires in life.   This is accomplished when there is enough rice, and....

Ms. Tori Wranes unleashes a strong representation of her material craftsmanship in her Mussel Tears opening at Shulamit Nazarian. What is most spectacular in her formations is in some balance of the serenity of misty oceanic sensations and its titillation of the visual senses. I have been a fan of the extension of the tactile and continue to be in the fine arts, as it provokes novel stimulation....

How can man gain redemption after a mistake, that was not even his to begin with? This quintessence of misfortune variegates human souls between triumphs and defeats, of those who have tasted the thrill of victory and those who live mired in loss. And yet, does humanity provide the means for such lost patrons of its race the ability to raise themselves up again? Or is humanity inconsiderate of....