Today I and Gonkar have done some photos taken for my new PR ideas...shooting in the street back of his studio building, with some of his art works. Wish if I had a professional camera but the outcome of the photography was great! It will reveal its appearance when I get some coverages on suitable publications...off we go!
MJ Hobby-Limon from the TAG Fine ArtsI and Gonkar absolutely love this combination of smartly dressed Hobby and the East End London background.
Hobby is from the TAG Fine Arts, whose organization Gonkar works very close with.
Here is the information on the organization from the website;
TAG provides an outlet for working artists to exhibit and sell their work: acting as a support network for its stable, TAG offers advice regarding commissions within the trade; a hub, it proposes alternative exhibiting opportunities and a forum for broader critical discussion about contemporary art.
The selection criteria for artists wishing to join TAG is based on the proviso that they are working in a creative capacity in an alternative arts environment. TAG exhibits artists who take an integrated approach to their work crossing traditional boundaries and engaging with other creative disciplines, such as architecture, graphic design and fashion.
In this way, TAG promotes the vital role which contemporary visual art plays within today’s multi-disciplinary approach to the arts, and aims to foster new relationships and opportunities for its artists both in the UK and abroad.
As you can see, TAG is a very exciting and progressive art organization for artists to work with!
On Monday Gonkar has been to the Royal Academy again to submit his art works early in the morning - and when he came out, look at the cue!!! It was so looooooooooooooooooong outside!!
It's the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden.
Apparently, there's a monthly poetry surgery where you can bring in your own poetry and gain some advices from professional poets at the Cafe too...wonderful! Definately a recommend to visit!!
じゃ～ん！！
可愛い！！！
One of the regular activities in my life is to meet up with my mentor. Mike is an inspiring art lover who cultivates his work in coaching while managing his busy schedule at a broadcasting company. 
ASIA HOUSE, WEST LONDON. Gonkar had a meeting with organizers of the London Asia Week, Anna and Verginia to discuss an upcoming projects they will be working together. What project? It will be a surprise! 
beautiful colour... cut the surface diagonally and stuff finely chopped lemon grass, onion, and garlic
salmons ride on the ship of foil, going into the oven
safely came out
their company is asparagus!!!
Salad, asparagus, salmon with lemon grass, brown rice with Greek basil...hmm....YUM.
The horse smiling at the camera with a twisted neck
I can't remember how many times I fell off from him while I was sitting there...
The master of the blue horse (Gonkar)
On one weekend in the beginning of Spring, I had a nice surprise to visit the Royal Albert Hall to watch Carmen, a Spanish-based French opera that has been loved for more than a century.
Though, I have to say, I loved the view of threes hanged in the ceiling and once again pulled down to the ground...!!!
And I just LOVE the laid-back attitude of the musicians, who purely want the audience as well as themselves to ENJOY the acts - we were absorbed by the energy-filled, strong character that (propably the) most of us have never witnessed for a long time.
Yumi Hara Cawkwell was saying that Cafe OTO is the only venue in London that is holding gigs of experimental music almost every night. In other words, the venue was now the new Spitz where all the starvations of progressive music are being fed in the cultural city. I can't wait to witness another night of mind-browing performance!
This is because the owner of the gallery Stephanie Hoppen is an internationally known interior designer whose interests varies from works of art to the variation of curtains. In other words, her fascination in works of art is centred around interior design for domestic sphere. Therefore, art and photography are meant to be displayed in combination to sofa, beds, tables, curtains and even types of music you would listen the most in your private room.
The web sites are under renovation, and are coming soon...!
Hmmm....white bags of gifts! It's March and spring is coming to London, but it seems that Mr.Santa has arrived to the Sweet Tea House again (though most of us are rather close to Buddhist culture,) HO HO HO. Well, they are actually not from Father Christmas - they are gifts that has been sent by Gonkar's friends in Tibet!!!
Although I normally do not eat meat, I was so curious and tempted to try....
So Gonkar picked up the softest one for me, and I did try it!On Saturday early evening when I was on my way back from work, reading a weekly company newspaper that I got from my boyfriend, I found out that there will be a new “reality art show” with Charles Saatchi coming up on BBC Two this autumn.
The article on ariel (written by Claire Barrett) starts with the following statement that was made by Francis Bacon:
“[A]rtists aren’t born [;] they need to meet the right people”
Having used to discuss about this controversial idea quite passionately with my friends when I was in an ”
The idea is that in the University class room, we have studied the canonical idea of the figure of artist being represented or recognized as a genius, and yet later on realised that it can actually be a matter of who you know rather than just what you produce in the reality outside the class room that will define the future of an artist – it was a question of nurture or nature, or a matter of having the both to be come an “Artist” with the big capital “A”.
The central idea of this upcoming programme Saatchi’s Best of British is to invite Charles Saatchi as the key figure to pick up 6 amateur artists, and to nurture the talent (and people connection, possibly) for over 3 months at a specially created Art School where the artists will be enrolled into.
The interesting point is that Saatchi will not appear directly in front of the camera – rather, “We see him as a kind of Charlie figure from Charlie’s Angels,” giving suggestions and opinions to the artists as well as tutors who will be mentoring the students. In other words, here, Saatchi is almost presented as a God like figure. With the image of Saatchi as an art dealer being synonymous to the image of success in Art, the artists’ success seemed to be guaranteed with the blessing of the God of Art World Saatchi.
In the art theory class I used to attend, what mattered was more of the figure of artists themselves being genius or God/des like. However, the history might have slightly shifted its spotlight to the dealers with God/des like talents as well as (social & financial) authority, and of course, a great passion for Art.
*Saatchi’s Best of British; Entry to the competition is open to any
*The Press Release from the BBC can be read from here.
Urban Art 
"Anarchy Rat" (2006), Banksy
