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Roy De Forest: Selected Works Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce Roy De Forest: Selected Works, a focus exhibition highlighting works by this renowned Bay Area artist, opening Thursday, July 15, 2021. Featuring an early painting, a rare construction from the 1960s, and works on paper, the exhibition highlights important early works by Roy De Forest (1930-2007) as well as the brightly colored, folk-like landscapes with figures and animals for which he is famous. The exhibition will be on view through August 28, 2021. Recognized as one of the most original painters of his generation, ...

Luis “Junyee” Yee, Jr.: A Portrait of an (National) Artist as Filipino Photo by Richie Macapinlac. 2021 ARTIST’S PROFILE   I first met Junyee when I was a student at the University of the Philippines in the early seventies. Together with some artist friends, we would later visit him when he began living in the campus of UP, Los Banos, which has become his home and a source of indigenous materials and inspiration for the site-specific installations for which he became widely known as the pioneer of installation art not just in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia. Those were halcyon da...

How Samik Bandyopadhyay built a collection of 40,000 books that he’s donating to create a library ‘There are the books and my bed. That’s it.’ Samik Bandyopadhyay. | Anchita Ghatak Samik Bandyopadhyay, teacher, publisher, writer, translator, and commentator on art, theatre, literature and politics, and of course, an avid reader, has recently donated his immense collection of more than 40,000 books to Boi Baibhav Foundation to create a library that will be a repository of much literary and cultural heritage. Scroll met the octogenarian Bandyopadhyay at his temporary ...

Mao makes comeback among China's Generation Z ANI 12 Jul 2021, 07:37 GMT+10 Beijing [China], July 12 (ANI): Communist Party's supreme leader Chairman Mao Zedong is making a comeback among China's Generation Z as his call for struggle and violence against capitalists is winning over a new audience of young people frustrated with long work hours and dwindling opportunities. Li Yuan, writing in The Japan Times said that Chairman Mao, whose decades of non-stop political campaigns cost millions of lives, is inspiring and comforting disaffected people born long after his death in 1976. To them, Mao...

Still revered: Preparing for last week’s event marking the 100th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of China, Chinese military band members practice in front of a portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. — Reuters THEY read him in libraries and on subways. They organised online book clubs devoted to his works. They uploaded hours of audio and video, spreading the gospel of his revolutionary thinking. Chairman Mao is making a comeback among China’s Generation Z. The Communist Party’s supreme leader is inspiring and comforting disaffected people born long after his death...