Lee Waisler


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Asian Art News  Ideas Before Commerce  September/October 2008

"When Sundaram Tagore established his New York gallery in 2000, a dynamic new phase opened up in the East-West art dialogue."

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Jewish Times Asia  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Opens in Hong Kong  July/August 2008

"Sundaram Tagore, a New York-based curator and gallerist, has announced the opening of a Hong Kong Gallery. The Gallery focuses on a dialogue between the cultures of East a West while filling the need for better representation of international art in Hong Kong."

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Hong Kong Economic Journal  June 15, 2008


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The Standard  Home Where Art and Heart are for Gallerist Tagore

"Tagore's Galleries in New York, Los Angeles and now Hong Kong combine visual arts with other forms such as poetry reading, dance performances, music, films and charity funding."

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South China Morning Post  US-based Gallery Aims to Thrust Local Art onto International Stage  May 7, 2008

"Gallery operator Sundaram Tagore - great-grandson of Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature - said he chose Hong Kong over many other potential sites including Dubai and Shanghai."

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Westside Today  Provacative Portraits  April, 2008

"It's about finding out who these people are, and finding out who I am in the process."

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Friday Magazine  Art of Heart: Art's New Dimension  April 3, 2008

" 'We're dedicated to intercultural dialogue, and dialogue across the oceans', he [Sundaram Tagore] says, returning to his favorite topic."

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Prestige  Art, No Commerce  April 2008

"These 'philosophical discussions' are fundamental to Tagore's vision for his galleries, or 'cultural spaces' as he prefers to call them. Unlike galleries that buy and sell art solely as a monetary transaction, Tagore has a mission to create a global community of artists and foster a dialogue between Western and non-Western cultures."

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Art News Magazine India  Facing East: American Artists' Encounters with India  August 2006

"The California artist Lee Waisler came to know both the renowned Indian philosopher J. Krishnamuri and the indophile artist Beatrice Wood, a lover of Marcel Duchamp, who inspired the character of Rose in the mainstream American film Titanic"

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News India Times/Desi Talk  Group Exhibition Reveals Confluence of East and West  Friday, June 30, 2006

"Bhavsar, Qadri, and Revri, are symbolic of the journeys of the artists of our times. Geographically, they have traveled out the country of their birth; artisically out of the influence of the Modernism of Matisse and Picasso, the Abstractionism of Mondrian, the Lyric Abstractionism of Pollock."

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L Magazine  Sundaram Tagore Gallery Lee Waisler: Perfect Circle  March 2-15, 2005

"Waisler . . . [is] influenced by Hindu-Buddhist precepts, specifically the notion of the interrelated duality of creation and destruction."

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AM New York  Art World Going in Circles  February 25th, 2005

"Lee Waisler is an American artist with International scope. He has exhibited in museums worldwide and his work is heavily influenced by Hindu and Buddhist culture and philosophy..."

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