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San Jose, Costa Rica vs Medellin, Colombia
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| Jules Rincon |
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 I used to live in San Jose, Costa Rica, a place glamorized in travel sections, where it is marketed as an accessible paradise. Guidebooks would gush about the safety, the friendly locals, and the surrounding sights. More...
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Maldeamores (Lovesickness)
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| Michael Prall |
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 Three twisting love stories make up "Maldeamores," the most recent film from a small Caribbean island not exactly known for having a film community. The Puerto Rico Film Commission would like to see that notion changed, though. Boasting the largest tax in More...
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State of the Planet at Columbia University
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| Michael Prall |
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 Kicking off the 5th State Of the Planet conference last Thursday morning, a gentlemanly Kofi Annan spoke to us of climate change, extreme poverty, and dwindling natural resources. More...
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Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim, Lin Yilin in conversation at the China Institute
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| Caroline Cooper |
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 “He Truly is a Global Nomad”
18 March 2008
Cai Guo-Qiang at the Guggenheim, Lin Yilin in conversation at the China Institute and the Asian Contemporary Arts Week Rolls On
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Asian Contemporary Art in New York
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| Caroline Cooper |
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 The Asian Contemporary Art Week got underway Saturday evening with Sotheby’s crowded first look at major works of Chinese modern art. Chinese contemporary, currently one of the industry’s hottest areas, is drawing both curious newcomers and collectors to More...
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Latest from the Gallery
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott
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| Matt Ransford |
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 “The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw” by Bruce Barcott, a contributing editor at Outside magazine, is a portrait of an American expatriate, Sharon Matola, who lives in Belize and leads a fight against a corrupt government. It is a story not about the bird in the title as much as it is about the passions that bird stirred in a woman who fell in love with Belize’s animals and saw their natural habit was in imminent peril. More...
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The Elders
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| Molly Wallace |
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 I still remember clearly the day in 2002 when I almost met Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The choir I sang with was performing at a memorial service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, one year after the attacks of September 11, and Tutu delivered the homily. More...
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Wanted: Superheroes Seeking Smart & Strong Women
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| Richa Gulati |
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 The world has been obsessed with superheroes since at least 1938, when DC Comics launched Superman. Since then, like Spiderman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, and the Fantastic Four, Superman has been— with uncommon strength and virtue—a leading superhero archetype. More...
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The Kabul InterContinental
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| Andrea Woodhouse |
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 In the winter of 1979, shortly before the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, my family went on holiday in Kabul. We were living in Pakistan at the time and, even though my English grandmother was visiting, my father wanted an adventure. More...
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Saude & Alegria: Brazil’s Floating Hospital
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| Talia Page |
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 At 3 a.m. I left for the airport, eager to leave New York City. I didn’t know what to expect. A few days earlier, I had been contacted by a public relations company that asked me to join a cruise down the Brazilian Amazon with a group of philanthropic doctors called Saude & Alegria. More...
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THE PICTURES LIE: Errol Morris Takes On The “Standard Operating Procedure” of Abu Ghraib
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| S. James Snyder |
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 Given its acute focus on photographs as articles that both illuminate and obscure reality, it seems somehow appropriate that “Standard Operating Procedure” is not the movie it initially appears to be. More...
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Campo Alegre Heats up the Carribean
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| Simone de Brabander |
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 12:35 a.m., Campo Alegre, Curaçao. Young prostitutes walk seductively through the palm tree lined alleys and give naked dance shows under flashing disco lights, hoping to attract business. More...
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