Family Story

Liu and his daughter Gayook in front of their Upper East Side Apartment in New York City ca. 1947

Why Germantown

Why Germantown? I am finally getting answers to questions about my father’s decisions that have always alluded me. When I started learning about his groundbreaking contributions I was shocked. This was certainly not the father I knew. What I absolutely did not expect was that it would take me on a journey back to my…

Lost Horizons: Art Deco Architecture of Singapore Liu Jipiao - Paris Expo 1925 Work

Singapore Exhibit Follow Up

This is our Singapore Exhibit follow up. The Singapore Heritage Week exhibit, “Lost Horizons: Art Deco Architecture of Singapore,” went very well! It went so well they are extending it to the end of September! So for those of you in Singapore, please take some time out of your busy day and enjoy!

Cite de l'architecture & du patrimione willhold an Art Deco exhibit this October 16 to February 17, 2014.. Liu Jipiao's work in the Paris Expo 1925 will be representing "Chinese Art Deco."

Returning To Paris!

I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the notion that we will be returning to Paris only a short two months from now. Back in February, when we were invited to display my father’s work at Cite de l’architecture & du patrimione in October, it seemed so far away.

Westlake Music Hall 1929

Funny Thought of the Week…

We just received a book from China! It’s a large, 400 page hardcover illustrated book with captions in Chinese and English about the Westlake Expo of 1929 recently published. (Thank you to our friend Tongrun!)

Liu and Gayook 1943

Intermission…

This is just a quick intermission before the craziness starts again in the next few months… We’re excited about the Singapore Heritage Week Exhibit that is now going on and we encourage all our friends and family in Singapore to attend Dr. Julian Davison’s lecture on Art Deco Architecture in Singapore on August 3, 2013.

Ship

Handed Down from Father to Daughter

I ended the last blog by saying that searching my father’s life and work has given me the “gift of doing something with others that I most love to do – travel!” After Jenn read the blog (Jenn reads and edits all my blogs), she comments, “Mom, do you realize that you got your love…

Liu Jipiao will be participating in Singapore's Heritage Weeks exhibit, "Lost Horizons: Art Deco Architecture of Singapore."

Lost Horizons: Art Deco Architecture of Singapore

We will be participating in an exhibit in Singapore! And since Gayook lived in Singapore for over 6 months, this exhibit is doubly exciting for her. It gives her a chance to share her father’s work with her Singaporean friends and family.

Juneau - Sawyer Glacier 2013

LIFE AFTER CANCER…

“Life After Cancer” is in response to Jenn’s earlier “One Year Cancer Free!”  First, a big thank you to my daughter for her care and for giving me the gift of my father. As if that weren’t enough, and to be alive, for my 70th birthday gift, I was given a cruise to Alaska!

Westlake Music Hall 1929

Exciting News!

We have exciting news! This past week, our friend Jeff Cody returned from Paris where he picked up our first purchase of Liu’s work.  We find it fitting because about a year and a half ago we met Jeff at the Getty Institute, Los Angeles.

Teachers and Families at Hangzhou National Art Academy ca. 1928

Friends Old and New…

Thanks to friends old and new.. Just last week our friend Kenneth Klein from the USC East Asian Studies Library was visiting.  

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