The Abroad Blog

I have been living and working in Beijing’s “798” for a month now. I visited this most important arts district in China for a few [...]

How could murderous African buffaloes have been cajoled into cow evolution? This steak shaped country where I was born even has a steer on its [...]

Dallas Artist Chapman Kelley, who asked the Dallas Museum of Art to sell his work back to him because he didn’t like the way it [...]

My second summer in one year is ending and this Uruguayan beach town has gone from sleepy to dormant. I have been waking up early [...]

If lost in Istanbul, you should follow the city’s spine to find your way. That keeps you from climbing back the steep inclines when you [...]

The Venice Film Festival is still under way as I write this article. This is not the Oscars, folks! It isn’t an award ceremony but [...]

It is the eve of the public opening of La Biennale di Venezia, I am making my way to San Marco from party to party [...]

Workers are managing to unload large art-type crates from barges at the Giardini in Venezia. The Biennale is still two weeks away so I am [...]