Word: collectionitis
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With its collection of over 50,000 dazzling artifacts created in pre-Hispanic times, Bogotá's Gold Museum is one of a kind. Now, thanks to a recent government crack-down on crime and corruption, tourists are trickling back to Colombia's capital to gawp at the treasures firsthand...
A tiny raft, made of fine gold - a model of the ceremony on the lake - is the Mona Lisa of the collection, kept in a darkened chamber. You can only marvel at the genius of the ancient artisans who crafted this and the equally incandescent jewelry, masks, breastplates (pictured), figurines...
A fascination with borders and belonging similarly permeate A Life Elsewhere, a superb collection of short stories published last year, which Afolabi had composed during breaks from writing the novel. One tale, Monday Morning, is about a family of asylum seekers fleeing atrocities at home for a new life in...
Afolabi, who began writing while taking an evening class at London's City Lit adult education institute, says he was surprised to discover this bleakness in his stories: "I had no idea that there was so much despair in them. I'd never consciously thought about what I was writing...
Denizens of Lamont Library have reason to rejoice, as the library will shift permanently to a 24-hour schedule during the academic workweek after a two-year pilot program that will end this month. “It’s amazing to us how well it was received,?...