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...Ulster today is that no matter what Paisley does, no one expects any more serious violence. Instead, people are planning more constructive ways to harness the power of the past: turning part of the Maze Prison, where 10 republican inmates starved themselves to death in 1981, into a museum; trying to build a hotel on the site of a recently demolished police station; perhaps erecting a visitors' center where back-packers can come to write messages on the peace line. "This wall's not coming down in the foreseeable future," says William Smyth, a former loyalist prisoner. "What we want...
...Paris. In 1871, appalled by the turmoil of the Paris Commune, a workers' revolution, he took himself and the young art critic Theodore Duret on a world tour, during which he focused on collecting Asian art. Voraciously acquisitive, he was as likely to buy whole collections - even an entire museum - as a single work of art. One of the 5,000 pieces he brought back, a bronze Japanese buddha, was so enormous that he built an elegant Paris residence around it. For years, Cernuschi allowed visitors to see his vast collection by special request. Before his death...
Hosted by HUNAP and The Peabody Museum, the ground-breaking event kicked off the semester-long archaeological excavations of twenty-five students in Anthropology 1130: The Archaeology of Harvard Yard...
...Rome Opera House will have Lo Schiaccianoci, otherwise known as The Nutcracker. After years of being closed for a contentious restoration, the Ara Pacis, the Emperor Augustus' monument to peace, dedicated in 9 B.C., is finally open (Piazza Augusto Imperatore). It is to be the centerpiece of a new museum that is being designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier. You'll have to come back in April for that...
...Curiously, there is no evidence that Chanel ever actually visited China or even Asia. "I expect the closest she got was something like Venice," says Valerie Steele, director of the museum at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. One can only speculate what impact a proper Asian sojourn would have had on a designer whose love of Chinese style permeates her label's products to this...