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...Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum The museum's official site pays tribute to the city and its victims - included are resources for the abolition of nuclear weapons and Hiroshima's recovery, and educational materials for kids...
...secret service agent; in Mexico City. DNA tests of bloodstains on the ax have been delayed by a dispute between Ana Alicia Salas, who says her late father removed the ax from an evidence room for safekeeping, and Esteban Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, who wants it donated to his museum at Trotsky's former home. Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian revolution, had fled the Soviet Union in 1937 after differences with Josef Stalin. He was murdered in Mexico City three years later, allegedly by one of Stalin's henchmen...
...exuberantly this previous generation of affluent Chinese spent its cash? The best place to start, just west of Kaiping, is the village of Zili, which has 15 blockhouses. The stately Mingshilou, built in 1925 by a family that owned a chain of general stores overseas, is now a museum; its top floor has a shrine surrounded by Roman columns. In nearby Xiangang you'll find the opulent Ruishilou, its upper floors a wedding cake of layered balconies. If you like the way the building's name looks on one of the walls, it's because the original owner had hired...
Visitors to Australia are often struck by the scarcity of opportunities to encounter Aboriginal culture. With indigenous people forming less than 3% of the population, there aren't many to be seen walking about on the streets; and the closest most tourists get to Aboriginal life is at a museum, or a didgeridoo purchased at a souvenir shop. That's why Gunya Titjikala (gunya.com.au) is such a welcome initiative. The country's first Aboriginal resort enables guests to live in a real desert community, absorbing local traditions firsthand...
...history, though you suspect that even there he would have had fun with the scraps. But his fragile art, with its flickering pulse, has turned out to be durable. Three decades later, he's the subject of "The Art of Richard Tuttle," a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) that sends you home with your senses briskly reconditioned. After it closes in San Francisco on Oct. 16, the exhibition goes on the road for two years, heading first to the Whitney--talk about "I shall return!"--then to Des Moines, Iowa; Dallas; Chicago; and Los Angeles...