Art is Where You Find It

Are fairytales meant for children only? If you think the answer is yes, then I’ve got a movie that will strip all your stereotypes. Pan’s Labyrinth, directed by Guillermo del Toro, is an independent movie filmed in Spanish that successfully combines fairytale and harsh fascist reality of the darkest chapter of Spain’s history. With a surprising density and complexity, Pan’s Labyrinth has an uncompromising story that mesmerizes its viewers. [Read more →]

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Art Review #4

The Museum of Arts and Designs is a ginormous (Yes, I made up a word, because it was big!) place located in the heart of Manhattan. Hearing rumors about how interesting and how great the museum is, my friends, my crew, and I decided to give it a visit. How was the museum, you ask? Hmm… let me ask you something first. One often chooses a museum to enjoy his stay there and look at different kinds of art works that may be appealing to them. Did you ever experience a time where you went to a museum having high expectations for it to be amazing, but then you enter to find that the museum lacks intricacy and is very boring? And then you find yourself so angry that you want to throw a rock (or something) at the museum and just want to break the art pieces because it shows a lack of effort and because you feel that even you yourself could have created such pieces? Well, this wasn’t one of those times. This museum was AMAAZING!! [Read more →]

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New Bamboo Podcast

Everyone knows what bamboo is – you know, that tall, green, leafy rigid stalk plant that is almost weed-like in how fast it grows. When I think of bamboo, the first three things that come to my mind are China, panda bears, and my failed 2nd grade plant experiment (which totally wasn’t my fault). My association of bamboo with art pretty much extended only to those Chinese ink paintings of bamboo forests, and maybe bamboo flutes at a stretch. It’s certainly no surprise, then, that the exhibit “New Bamboo” at the Japan Society gallery completely blew away all my expectations of what “bamboo art” could be.

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Union Square Holiday Market

The peppermint tents at Union Square lined up in semi-circles, are finally back for this year’s Christmas season. There are over a hundred shops located in this tiny market with limitless possibilities of amazing gifts. It was a wonderful shopping experience to get unique one-of-a kind gifts as well as to beat the crowded lines at department stores. [Read more →]