Please don’t write Beijing in October 1979 out of history.
They marched under this banner - 'In Politics we want Democracy and in Art Freedom' 1989 ? NO
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10, 2024
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07, 2023
Making Sense by Ai Weiwei and the Stars -want a talk?
Making Sense by Ai Weiwei. It’s in its final weeks @ the Design Museum in London so do go if you can. I went to see it with a dear friend. Simonetta Agnello Hornby and I met as young mothers.
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01, 2023
An exhibition for our time. Qu Leilei and Caroline Deane’ Calligraphy Forest of Misinformation.
I went to London to see Qu Leilei and his partner Caroline Deane’s exhibition Calligraphy Forest of Misinformation. It was a moving experience. It was originally shown in Milan and is inspired by a phenomenon of our time https://www.facebook.com/sylvia.vetta/videos/1986347964828795 The
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11, 2022
The Third Oxford Indie Book Fair Nov 26 11am-4pm
At Oxib tomorrow, I’ll talk about and sign copies of my just published memoir Food of Love Cooking up a life through gender class and race. It’s received great endorsements from the journalist , Yasmin Alibhai
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11, 2021
I’m thrilled with the endorsements on the new cover of Brushstrokes in Time.
A brilliant,compelling read. Shrenik Rao Editor of the Madras Courier Whether describing how students were ‘sent to the countryside’ or how, after Mao died, young artists hung their experimental work outside the national art gallery, Vetta is always
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06, 2021
Shepherd.com: An exciting new website for authors
Ben Fox had an idea that a punter interested in a topic, let's say China, will go onto a website and browse books about it which are recommended by respected writer . The punter then possibly buys the book or
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12, 2020
Kamila Shamsi and the heartbreak of not telling stories because of ‘appropriation’
https://www.guernicamag.com/shamsie_02_01_2012/? I hate stereotypes and dislike of them is I believe the motivation for the sad ‘appropriation ‘saga. The wonderful Kamila Shamsi rightly wonders in this link - why there should be obstacles to telling peoples stories. For 18