Wednesday, August 06, 2008

• Pérez Celis, born Celis Pérez, popular Argentinian painter and sculptor, died Saturday, October 3, 2008. He was sixty-nine. The Washington Post has an obituary.

• The New York Times has an interesting article on the efforts to preserve the old hutong neigbourhoods on Beijing.

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Kirk Johnson of The New York Times has a discouraging report on the threat energy projects pose to Native American cultural sites in the American west. (via Illicit Cultural Property)