new online source

just in time for the holidays - you can find my work on the Red Lodge Clay Center gallery site

beauty

more on weiwei - arrested

BEIJING — A phalanx of Beijing police officers confined the prominent artist and activist Ai Weiwei to his north Beijing home on Friday, a move he suggested came at the behest of unnamed but powerful political figures in Shanghai who feared that he was about to embarrass them.

more in the new york times

83 million dollar pot

The 18th-century porcelain vase, sold by a family clearing out a deceased relative's house, went to a Chinese buyer for 51.6 million pounds ($83 million) — more than 40 times the pre-sale estimate and a record for a Chinese work of art.
taken from the AP wire - more info here

sometimes true

not that uplifting maybe, but funny all the same