We just returned from a trip to France. Of many highlights, the one which I have most exhaustively photographed is our visit to La Maison Picassiette, in Chartres.
This news, passed on to us by the Toussaint Louverture Cultural Foundation: With deep sadness we learned Lafortune Felix passed away a few weeks ago in Haiti.
It’s a great loss for the art world in Haiti and abroad.
Hurricane Matthew has now passed through Haiti, and has been wreaking havoc elsewhere. But it is clear that the damage and loss of life in Haiti has been devastating.
"Peru retablo artist lifts the lid on traditional story boxes" - A BBC video tour of Claudio Jimenez Quispé's Studio
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Friday, July 29, 2016 - 12:00am
I was a bit slow in finding out about it, but the BBC has produced a very good video about Peruvian retablo master Claudio Jimenez Quispé and his work. You can watch it at:
I am always intrigued by the street art I find when I travel, whether signage graphics, informal grafitti or intentional and officially sanctioned murals. On my trip to Peru in April I had been tipped off by my friend Scott Rothstein, so I was particularly interested to see what I would find.
Notes on a trip to Peru - A visit to the studio of Claudio Jimenez Quispé
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Monday, May 9, 2016 - 12:00am
I've just returned from a visit to Peru. Eleven days is not much time for a country the size of Peru, but it allowed me a few days in Lima - visiting markets, museums and some artists' studios, and an excursion to Cusco and the Sacred Valley, including Machu Picchu.
