宋冬

I studied painting over weekends with Song Dong for a year. Now he is the hero in the New York Times Art Section headline story. Unbelieveable.

The show at MoMA is what the Times calls The Collective Ingredients of a Beijing Life, which is a heavy dose of accelerator to my homesickness. The show will continue through September 21. I hope we have time on our east-coast trip so that I can take my parents to see the show. I am sure my mom still has a pretty clear recollection of how he hated my dumpling painting, how he loved my paper-collage chair, and his long hair. If we can't make it in late July, I must go on my labor day trip to New York.

宋冬, another reason to go to New York.

Missing

When Chen Qizhen sings in her Meaning of Traveling:

You've tasted the night of Paris
You've stepped on the snow of Beijing

I always miss Beijing, very much.