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Up until 2007 the Nepalese rupee featured a portrait of the King of Nepal. This is in keeping with other…

Abuela Grillo is an animated short directed by Denis Chapon and featuring the voice of Luzmila Carpio. It is, perhaps,…

What is heritage? Is it the physical remains of the past? The literal, tangible objects of art? The physical bits…

Earlier today I posted a photo on twitter that I came across. It shows Albert Einstein with a group of…

I’ve spent the past two months in Bolivia and this weekend I was in Copacabana, a beautiful and ancient town…

I am often in New Zealand…at least more often than I am in various other places. While here I tend…

It should come as no surprise that I thrive on historic western impressions of the Amazon. I don’t think I…

This week I read The House of the Seven Gables for the first time and have been googling daguerrotypes like…

Over the weekend I got myself characteristically worked up about Perú’s impending run-off election between “Cancer and AIDS” to quote…

I’ve always found ‘dressing up’ to be a remarkably complex activity. It is also weirdly divisive: love or hate, you…