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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a curated playlist from Spotify is made for the blog. The playlist references articles in some way and this week it features music from and about Venice, as…
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Hélène Kuhn Ferruzzi
Venice has long been known for its music, art and artists. In the narrow route along a canal that leads past Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery of European and American art is…
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Venice and the Biennale (Part One)
Taking place in the beautiful city of Venice with its picturesque canals, boats and bridges as well as its plethora of fine buildings, the Biennale 2024 is thought-provoking and surprising.…
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Home again
We are home again after our overseas trip and what a trip it was! Over the next few weeks I shall share some of the exciting things we saw in…
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Susanna Bauer’s crocheted leaves
Susanna Bauer, the UK based artist who stitches and crochets leaves, has published a new monograph. “IN LEAF”, published by 5 Continents Editions, celebrates the fragility of nature and its…
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Lobola – negotiating an African wedding
Thank you to our South African reader who sent this in to share. In Africa, weddings are often marked by a “bride price” – a payment that signals the negotiations…
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Conversation and Cloth – Hokitika
The West Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand is full of history and tales. In the middle of the Southern Winter, as the world turns and seasons change, a star cluster…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
The playlist this week, as always, references articles on the blog. It is a curated list of interesting and unusual pieces, some old and some new, in different genres, all…
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A tapa sampler
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Aotearoa’s national museum, has a unique taonga: a book of tapa samples. This book, rather grandly entitled “A Catalogue of the different…
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Can indigenous knowledge help mathematics?
A university in Australia, the Australian National University, has developed a course in mathematics that includes teaching about Indigenous Knowledge. For anyone interested in mathematics, particularly where the arts are…
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