Journeys | Belgium : By RICHARD B. WOODWARD
IF feminism means a desire for independence from patriarchal authority, the beguines — a Roman Catholic laic order that began in the 13th century and branched across northwest Europe — represented, perhaps, the world’s oldest women’s movement.
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by admin
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Globespotters | Berlin Biennial : By KIMBERLY BRADLEY
THE Fifth Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, which runs through June 15, may well be remembered for signaling the beginning of a new curatorial movement: Slow Art.
Unlike the usual megahype that surrounds Berlin’s exploding art scene, the biennial, which opened in early April, takes the opposite tack. Its […]
Posted on May 21st, 2008 by admin
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Frugal Traveler | Toronto : By MATT GROSS
ONCE upon a time, not all that long ago, there existed a magical country that was a lot like the United States, only less expensive. Its enchanted currency — the other dollar — allowed Americans to indulge as they could not back home. This delightful fantasyland was called […]
Posted on May 20th, 2008 by admin
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Journeys | Croatia : By JON BOWERMASTER
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ISLANDS — some 1,200 of them — dot the Adriatic coast of Croatia like a long line of bread crumbs, ranging from two-acre specks to 35-mile-long spines of rock and scrub. Beautiful and remote, the labyrinth stretches for several hundred miles, from the northern coastal town of Rijeka […]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by admin
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By JULIA CHAPLIN : IT was high tide on a scorching Tuesday, and the choppy beaches around Lima, Peru, were crawling with surfers. There were teenagers in ratty flip-flops carrying short boards patched with duct tape, and bronzed women in wet suits paddling out into the shimmering blue waves. There was even a businessman in […]
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin
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Heads Up | Fujian, China : By BARBARA KOH
FROM China’s Fujian coast, it’s a grinding drive up narrow roads through villages built around exhausted coal mines to reach the remote mountains of Yongding. Morning mist clings to the slopes of dense trees and brush. Below, in a valley, rests an eerie collection of beige cylindrical […]
Posted on April 30th, 2008 by admin
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