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.

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)