The Albion Beatnik Bookshop (34 Walton St, Oxford OX2 6AA Phone: 07737 876213) Thursday August 18 @7.30m A talk by journalist and author of To mark the 50th Anniversary of the showpiece rally of The Cultural Revolution which led to this!
http://www.claretpress.com/#!Sylvia-Vetta-talks-of-Ai-Weiwei/c16ee/573894390cf2b662e5bc30d4 I wrote this after Alison Layman’s film of Ai Weiwei titled ‘Never Sorry’ at the Phoenix Picture House (Walton Street) on Wednesday at 6pm for Arts Week Forum . His career as an artist began with the Stars Art
You can see and read some of the reviews listed below on this url.url My first non-antiques feature in Weekend magazine, The Oxford Times’ equivalent of Time Out appeared in early January 2004. The arts editor, Chris Gray, titled it
The history of tea is not quite the peaceful story one would expect. In the C19th, it was an almost fanatically sought after commodity but British and Indian companies wanted to trade opium in exchange. 'The Ibis Trilogy' by Amitav
A coup for Chinese New Year! Exclusive interview for Oxfordshire Limited Edition with one of the founders of the Stars Art movement the courageous Qu Leilei. Ai Weiwei, Ma Desheng, Wang Keping and Li Shuang are among his fellow Stars.
Chatting with Eve Ahmed and Linora Lawrence on That’s TV’‘s Talk Oxford. As well as talking about Brushstrokes in Time, we promoted our friend Gina Clay’s lovely and useful book 'Don't let them tell you how to Grieve' which I
Newsquest have syndicated a lot of the reviews listed below. Here is one of them. Maybe it is down to my Cornish heritage but I loved reviewing this exhibition. http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/history_heritage/8958121.Alfred_Wallis_and_Ben_Nicholson__Compton_Verney/ Until recently I wrote two reviews a month for Weekend
Brushstrokes in Time OLE I am grateful to editor Tim Metcalfe for commissioning this feature titled Brushstrokes in Time after my novel which Claret Press will publish in early 2016. Its origin was extended interviews with the artist Qu Leilei.
Pictures: Qu Leilei and I outside his childhood weekend home in The Summer Palace, The Stars March to Tiananmen Square (1979) Right:Weimin He's picture at the ROQ site inspired by my poem An Artist Observes .Castaway No
Remembering interviewing one of the five founders of The Stars Art Movement (Beijing 1979), Qu Leilei. My first profile of him was published in The Oxford Times on June 24 2005.