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From the Archives China: 5,000 Years, Innovation and Transformation in the Arts Contributions by Helmut Brinker, James Cahill, Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Patricia Ebrey, Sherman Lee, and Zhang Wenbin Published in 1998 504 pages, fully illustrated English and Spanish editions The exhibition China: 5,000 Years, Innovation and Transformation in the Arts opened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in early 1998 and traveled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the same year. It was one of the first exhibitions held in the newly opened Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and marks the Guggenheim Foundation's dedication to the study and exhibition of Asian art. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition is an invaluable resource for scholars of Chinese culture and art. Excerpt The reader will by now be aware that this is an exhibition which stresses the art of an ancient culture with particular relation to innovation and creativity. Related Exhibitions China: 5,000 Years Related Books Related Essays

14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed Ebooks Living with food restrictions? You can still have delicious, varied meals that anyone would be happy to share! Enjoy breakfasts, desserts, or holiday meals, all without sugar, gluten, eggs or dairy! And for anyone who’s gone from anti-candida to healthy maintenance, Sweet Freedom offers desserts without wheat, eggs, dairy or refined sugars (some spelt and barley flour as well as natural sweeteners). To read more about each digital cookbook, click on the title below. 5 Ebook Bundle: Get my top 5 ebooks for 30% off! Holiday Desserts without Sugar, Gluten, Eggs or Dairy cookbook Sweet Favorites, Candida-Free cookbook Living Candida-Free Sampler cookbook Top 12: Favorite Candida Diet Stage 1 Recipes cookbook Good Morning! A Sweet Life Thanksgiving cookbook [available from September until US Thanksgiving only] Sweet Freedom cookbook (not suitable for an anti-candida diet)

Visualising China: explore historical photos of China DIY Geometric Necklace Pendant Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful time celebrating. I actually made it until midnight...I was pretty proud of myself :) 2012 is going to be amazing...I just know it! I want to kick off the new year with a fun DIY that I have been wearing recently. What you will need:3 different colors of polymer claySome kind of roller (a large marker will also do the trick)Razor bladeCotton cordKrazy glueToothpick or object to poke a hole in clay Soften and condition the clay with your hands before starting. Carefully slice out 3 triangles. Poke a hole in the smallest of the 3 triangles. Krazy glue the triangles on top of each other, staggering them a little bit. Attach the necklace cord and have fun wearing!

A publishing how-to: Tips from Stacey Pierson, Ph.D. (Part 1) « Post Academic Stacey Pierson is Lecturer (which translates to Assistant Professor here in the States) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, specializing in Chinese Ceramics and Museum Studies. She is also the one-time curator of the prestigious Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, and I imagine she could also probably work as a junior archeologist, ace appraiser, and Chinese translator, if she wanted to! "Chinese Ceramics book cover" (Courtesy of Stacey Pierson) But, for our purposes here at Post Academic, it’s her experiences as a published author of two books–Chinese Ceramics: A Design History (V&A, 2009) and Collectors, Collections and Museums: the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560-1960 (Peter Lang, 2007)–and her current post as the Editor of the journal Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society that we’re most interested in. Over the next few days, Dr. The interview continues below the fold… PA: What are the hardest parts of writing a book?

:: clevergirl.org ::: 216. Happy New Year! Norma Envelope Clutch - free pattern Happy New Year!!! New Year's Day is my favorite holiday! But how would you know or remember that, given my propensity toward semiannual blog updates? I plan to blog more frequently in 2012. I've missed sharing my sewing exploits, and I have talked myself out of posting some patterns and tutorials for silly reasons. This year, I'll just put it all out there and maybe it will be of use to someone, somewhere in the world, just when they need it. First up in the new year is a free pattern and pseudo-tutorial (you'll see what I mean in a moment) for an envelope clutch. I drafted a pattern and sewed the first prototype for this envelope clutch in October, and when I took it out one evening, my friend Norma gushed. Download the Norma Envelope Clutch Pattern here. You'll need: Use 3/8" seam allowance all around. You have no idea how many patterns and ideas I haven't shared on the web because I avoid technical writing and photography! That's all for now.

Play Nicely With Others: Games to Play With Your Camera A recent major university double-blind study has concluded that games are fun. In addition, 63 percent of licensed phlebotomists agree that fun is nice. These ground-shaking, revolutionary results have caused us to revise our staunchly anti-fun philosophy. In an effort to explore these new (and somewhat suspicious) avenues of “fun” and “games” we respectfully present our findings on the subject: five games you can play with your camera and photos. We are informed by reliable sources that they qualify as “fun.” Photography Games p.s. These particular games use Flickr as a homebase since lots of users means more players for the game. Photogamer What Is It? What are the Rules? How Do I Play? Why Would I Bother? But it’s also a really good way to kickstart your creativity if you’ve been in a rut. Mission 24 What Is It? What are the Rules? Only photos taken after the mission starts are allowed- no recycling from your archives. How Do I Play? Why Would I Bother? Guess Where? What Is It? Guess What?

Winter Warmer Cowl Winter is definitely here in Portland! We came up with this fun winter scarf to keep you warm during the short cold days. Using two contrasting wool fabrics, one particularly soft, creates a warm blanket for your neck and shoulders. The cinched part makes the cowl look like a fun, oversized bow. Items Needed: 37″ x 15 1/2″ main fabric 37″ x 15 1/2″ contrast fabric 10″ x 7 1/2″ main or contrast fabric Thread Pins Rotary Cutter or Scissors Cut out the fabric for the scarf body and the band. Right sides facing, pin the long sides together, leaving the ends open. Using a 5/8″ seam allowance, sew up the long sides of the scarf. Finish your seams using your method of choice. Turn to the right side. Fold the scarf in half so that the ends are on top of each other. Pin along the contrast fabric. About 3″ out from the contrast fabric, pin the main fabric. The scarf should look like a seashell. Start sewing at the first pin on the main fabric. Now you still have a seashell, except it’s been sewn.

FREE bag purse pattern - 'For Pleat's Sake' Tote Hello! I hope you all had a wunnerful weekend. I had an incredible weekend (more about it in my next post) and then I got knocked over sideways by food poisoning. Hey ho. Here it finally is, the pleaty bag tute that I promised you just before we moved house (wow did that all really happen? **NB: the pattern is a simple landscape rectangle - measurements are in the tutorial** Ohh boy! Please pop your U-Handbag tute/kit/pattern bags in here - I love checking 'em out :) Click on the pics to enlarge. Dya like my birdy hook? Side view. The pleats look great and they add heaps of volume to the bag (so you can add heaps o' shoppin'). To see pics of another Pleats Sake Tote that I made, look here. I do hope you enjoy the tute folks!