Carina del Rosario
Artist Shaun Tan’s sketches reveal strange yet familiar creatures
From his earliest drawings to today, Shaun Tan uses what he sees in the real world and throws it “far across a pond of...
Minh Carrico: Harvester of time
The autumn afternoon was surprisingly clear and bright. Minh Carrico and I strolled along familiar streets canopied by sweet gum trees, their leaves aflame....
You’ll want to read Shaun Tan’s illustrated short stories again and again
Tales from the Inner City has sat on my bedside table for a long time. Unlike the other books piled beneath it, I keep...
Shaun Tan sparks imagination with Singing Bones
How do you spark someone’s imagination? How do you rouse them from their everyday way of looking at something, to see something both familiar...
‘Rules of Summer’ brimming with vivid stories, intuitive life lessons
The latest from Shaun Tan
Nourishment in an Abandoned Landscape
At a lecture in Seattle many years ago, photographer Graciela Iturbide talked about the commitment it took to photograph people. For “Images of the...
Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces
How could this be? After reading “Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces,” edited by American Studies Theodore S. Gonzalves, I was left wondering...
Tibet: Culture on the Edge
Phil Borges went back to Tibet in 2009, with a plan to continue on the path he had been on. For the last several...
Three Views of a Changing China
Even after the Olympics in Beijing, China continues to transform itself at a startling pace, driven by the opening of its economic market to...
