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		<title>Artist &#8211; Bavuu Erdenebayar: A Miro of Mongolia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the H1N1 Flu outbreak in Mongolia, all public gathering places were closed for several weeks to prevent further spread of the flu.  In December, they began to slowly re-open museums, theaters, etc. In a fit of boredom, I walked around the city and discovered the Red Ger Gallery was open!  The gallery is located [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=217&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roerich Museum Opens in Mongolia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 07:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  It’s been many years since I first came across the work of Nicholas Roerich. I can’t remember how I became acquainted with him… Perhaps while doing some research related to Tibet or Central Asia. But I remember, several years ago, visiting the townhouse on the upper west side of Manhattan that houses a museum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=198&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Khoomei-Taiko Ensemble Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The first weekend of October in Ulaanbaatar, we experienced a unique cross-cultural performance – a synthesis of Japanese and Mongolian musical traditions. The Khoomei-Taiko ensemble, which grew out of a similar concert in New York City in 2007, blew us away with their deep resonating drums and haunting traditional throat singing. The ensemble is comprised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=196&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chingiss, Surrealism and The 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been intrigued by the Symbolists and Surrealists and wished I could paint dreamy and imaginative images like them.  In my mind, I’ve associated them with modern European artists from a bygone era.  It’s rare that I’ve come across a contemporary surrealist painter who truly inspires me.  Chicago artist, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris is one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=189&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Art Update From Ulaanbaatar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has mercury gone retrograde already? A mile of the main street through the center of the city is suddenly under construction until October, an unannounced “repair” to water system, so no hot water for a week now, internet is slow or non-existent and there was a power outage last night. So unfortunately, blog updates have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=183&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>798 Art Gallery District, Beijing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heading back to Mongolia, I had a one day layover in Beijing and re-visited the 798 Gallery district.  I had been there three years earlier, but since then, there have been many articles in the US on contemporary Chinese artists and I had recently seen an exhibit of contemporary Chinese art at the Chicago Cultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=173&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Knowing</title>
		<link>http://culturesnclay.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/deep-knowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, Marianne Solome, recently published a book about a fellow artist in Mongolia, Soyolmaa.  Soyolmaa is an accomplished painter whose work is inspired by her Buddhist beliefs.  Please have a look at Marianne&#8217;s lovely video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY40fk5nTp4.  Their book, &#8220;Deep Knowing&#8221;, can be found on Amazon. Tagged: Mongolia, painting, Soyolmaa<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=159&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goddess Pottery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past spring, there was an article in the news about an ancient goddess figurine  that was discovered in Europe. Scholars are claiming it as the oldest such figurine to have been discovered. The article reminded me of how, as a young artist, I would roll my eyes every time I saw someone re-creating the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=137&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Potters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucked away on the Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago is the Oriental Institute (OI) – a real gem of a museum.  I recently ventured down there to look at their ancient pottery collection.  There also is a very interesting exhibit: “The Life of Meresamun”, which places into context or re-creates the life of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=127&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big World, Surreal Swans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Pitzen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I ventured down to Chicago’s Cultural Center hoping to hear a curator’s talk about a very cool exhibit on contemporary Chinese art.  Unfortunately, there was some misinformation, so I wandered over to one of the other galleries.  To my surprise, was a very interesting exhibition of surrealist style paintings by Chicago painter, Eleanor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=culturesnclay.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7156723&amp;post=112&amp;subd=culturesnclay&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">From: Big World: Art from Contemporary China</media:title>
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