Painter asks people to probe his mind

Sipping an espresso, Sean Scully, 71, is fighting the weariness that an international artist has to face today because of extensive travel in a globalized art world.

An exhibition of the Irish-American abstract painter opened at the Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, on Friday, throwing Scully into another round of media interviews and academic activities in the capital of East China's Jiangsu province.

On March 22, he was in Hong Kong to receive this year's Harper's Bazaar Art international artist of the year award.