Monday, June 08, 2015

MUSEUMS GETTING YOUNGER

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Hands off – this is Culture                             They’re the places many enter with reluctance, more as duty than delight. Som...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

HANDLESS - NOT HELPLESS

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See the person, not the problem       The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members . Nobel Prize winner a...

AN ISLAND UNLIKE ANY OTHER

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Making it in Madura The Madurese are famously holy.  The roads on their small island off the north coast of East Java are notorious...
Monday, May 25, 2015

FULFILLING THE SACRED TRUST

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The story that wouldn’t stop gnawing                       Every great nation strives to know the truth of its foundation, why it e...
Monday, May 18, 2015

BORN BEFORE THE AGE OF PARANOIA

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Those were the criminal days                                   Duncan Graham When I was a schoolboy, praying pubic hairs would soon appea...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

OUT OF THE MUD - BEAUTY

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Anglo artisans keep potting along                                            Sri Saparni, 45, (right) claws out a fistful of dark c...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

THE KIWI WHO LOVED GAMELAN

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A legacy of love and music                                              Gamelan musician and composer Jack Body, 70, a major and en...