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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! LOVE IN ART
Happy Valentine’s Day! At the mention of this holiday, we conjure images of pink and red roses along with piles of chocolate and gifts...
Viela Hu
Feb 19, 2023
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2023: THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT
新年快乐! Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit in Chinese zodiac! To celebrate, let’s take a look at some traditional...
Viela Hu
Jan 22, 2023
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A MUNDANE LIFE, AN UNCONTROLLABLE LIFE, A NEW LIFE: AKI SASAMOTO
The New Year marks a new beginning: new outfit styles, new artworks, new routine plans, yet we always find ourselves end up somewhere...
Viela Hu
Jan 12, 2023
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HAPPY 2023 NEW YEAR’S DAY!
Happy 2023 New Year’s Day! 元旦快乐!元旦 is the Chinese word for the first day of new year, the mark of a new beginning. To celebrate, let’s...
Viela Hu
Jan 1, 2023
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THE JOLLY MAN IN RED: A VISUAL HISTORY OF SANTA CLAUS
Merry Christmas! Wishing everyone a very wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year! I grew up listening to tales of Santa...
Viela Hu
Dec 26, 2022
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THE ORDINARY AND THE PECULIAR: STELLA ZHANG
In the last blog, I discussed the serene, eternal beauty in Masao Yamamoto’s photography. Today, let us take a look at a similar,...
Viela Hu
Nov 1, 2022
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A TRANQUIL WORLD: MASAO YAMAMOTO
Amongst the chaos of urban life floats a nude woman, flies a lone bird, and flows a constant serenity unknown to contemporary life yet...
Viela Hu
Oct 9, 2022
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WOMAN, FLOWER, AND ELEPHANT: SANYU
I am deeply interested in the wonder of the human body and its role in art. Many of the artists I talked about in my last blogs were...
Viela Hu
Sep 25, 2022
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NOISE OR MUSIC: MARCEL DUCHAMP
I was at the MoMA, again, and there was a work that deeply enraptured me. When I think of Marcel Duchamp, immediately I conjure an image...
Viela Hu
Sep 19, 2022
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THE SPIRITUAL IN ART: VASILY KANDINSKY
I was at the Guggenheim’s Vasily Kadinsky: Around the Circle the other day and wanted to share a few works from the exhibition. Frank...
Viela Hu
Aug 21, 2022
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BODY, SPACE, NATURE: TOYO ITO
In the last two blogs, I discussed the relationship between body and space through painting. Today, let’s take a look at the relationship...
Viela Hu
Aug 7, 2022
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PILGRIMAGE IN PAINT: THE PENITENCE OF SAINT JEROME IN THE MET
It has been a while since I updated a museum blog. I was at the Met the other day, and I wanted to share a piece that has caught my eye:...
Viela Hu
Jul 24, 2022
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THE PAINTED BODY: GUGLIELMO CASTELLI
Body in art does not have to be a direct use of the real, physical body itself: it can also be painted. Guglielmo Castelli is an Italian...
Viela Hu
Jul 3, 2022
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PLAYLISTS FOR ART MAKING: THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ART
I wanted to try something different and add in a few fun blogs in between introductions of various artists, so here is a blog on some of...
Viela Hu
Jun 26, 2022
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VISIBLE ART AND INVISIBLE IDEA: REGINA JOSÉ GALINDO
In the last blog, I wrote about how Maisie Wisconsin uses body as part of her photography art. In this blog, let’s take a look at another...
Viela Hu
Jun 19, 2022
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EVERYTHING PRETTY, ICKY, AND SEXY: MAISIE COUSINS' PHOTOGRAPHY
People often think of flowers as all nice and pretty, but what if they were all rotten and sticky? Artist Maisie Cousins employs spoiled...
Viela Hu
Jun 5, 2022
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FLOWERS AND FEMININITY: TIFFANIE TURNER
It has been a long time since I have written a blog, but here it is :) Last blog, I talked about Kubota’s work on feminism. To continue...
Viela Hu
May 25, 2022
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TRIP TO MOMA: SHIGEKO KUBOTA
on the mother of video art “Shigeko Kubota: Liquid Reality.” The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, 2021, www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5324...
Viela Hu
Mar 13, 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES: FLYING SOLO NYFW
DESIGN = ART? My trip to New York makes me wonder more about the two fields. Last week, I went to NYC for New York Fashion Week Flying...
Viela Hu
Feb 20, 2022
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
新年快乐!Happy New Year! To celebrate Year of Tiger, 虎年, I want to show a few Guo Hua 国画, by Zhang Daqian (张大千)'s brother Zhang Shanzi (张善子)....
Viela Hu
Feb 2, 2022
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