PRESS RELEASE JUNE 15, 2017

New Meridian Arts announces the publication of Dispatches by Deyan Ranko Brashich with illustrations by Daniela Kamiliotis

Dispatches, a collection of essays that have been published in art and literary journals in the United States and abroad, is a personal journal.  The author writes of art encountered in his travels across America and abroad. The essays describe art’s kaleidoscope - beautiful, sublime, crass and sometimes criminally corrupt that one meets in museums, cities, places and the evening news. Dispatches speaks of museums and monuments as diverse as New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the Parthenon in Athens, the “Big Ditch” Corinthian Canal in Greece and Daniel Chester French’s “barn” turned into an architecturally stunning visitor’s center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The essays speak to the arts, warts and all, that makes us human. Some are laudatory, some are critical but all are informative. The essays are graced with images that illustrate the subject matter. The collection is enhanced by the whimsical artistic comments of his collaborator, Daniela Kamiliotis.                                         

Deyan Ranko Brashich, born in Belgrade, ex-Yugoslavia, is a columnist and essayist for newspapers, art and literary magazines published in the United States and abroad. He is the author of Letters from America and Contrary Views. A full biography is on his web site “Contrary Views” at deyanbrashich.com. He resides in New York City.

Daniela  Kamiliotis, a designer, painter and artist with many theatre and cinema credits, is Senior Vice President for Ralph Lauren Women’s Collection. A full biography is on her web site “Daniela Kamiliotis” at danielakamiliotis.com. She resides in New York City.

New Meridian Arts is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to artistic, cross-cultural, multi media exchange of ideas through the publication of books, magazines and the production of visual and performing arts.  Today’s globalization comes with its own political and cultural challenges, and New Meridian offers solutions making multiculturalism a priority to better understand this new world and its diversity.

New Meridian Arts is dedicated to giving voice to original international writers of talent and scope, encouraging the translations of their works to and from English. New Meridian Arts focuses on artists who will enhance  and make a difference to the American cultural environment, in order to broaden and facilitate American access to the rich contemporary life of letters and arts found in other parts of the globe.

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