https://www.scmp.com/rss/264955/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Henrik Drescher is standing in front of a class of illustration students at the Maine College of Art, in Portland, in the United States. It's 9am and the Dane - one of the most revered illustrators in the world - wastes no time in offering what may be the best advice the students will ever hear. "I want you to cultivate the muse," he barks at them. "You're on a dead-line but you need to loosen up. You need to learn how to counteract the anti-muse. All of you are talented but some of you will not... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1627448/affair-art?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1627448/affair-art?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:27:20 +0000 The first time I meet Lily King, it's early February and snow is falling on the streets of Portland, Maine, in the United States. It's warm in the Speckled Axe café, where a few bearded hipsters are staring into their laptops. Despite the four foot-high snow drifts outside, when King walks in she's a vision of tropical sunlight: dressed in a multicoloured jumper with an orange scarf around her neck. Her eyes are so blue they pull you in like the tide. We're meeting to discuss Euphoria, King's... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1562611/female-intuition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1562611/female-intuition?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Aug 2014 15:30:15 +0000 For her latest book As Seen, an attempt to record some of the notable artworks by mainland artists from 2011, British critic and curator Karen Smith walked through hundreds of exhibitions and saw thousands of pieces - that was her idea of taking a breather. Deep into writing Bang to Boom, which details the rise of Chinese contemporary art from 1989 to 2002 and follows her 2005 historical compendium Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde in New China, writing As Seen, she says, was a chance for her... https://www.scmp.com/article/1000846/dont-mention-wall?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/1000846/dont-mention-wall?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 May 2012 16:00:00 +0000