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A major retrospective of the drawings, prints, animations, videos, performances, set designs and installations of South African artist William Kentridge opens at the Museum of Modern Art today (after stops in San Francisco, Texas and Florida), but over the last few days (and despite an excellent profile in a recent New Yorker) we noticed that [...]

As drought-prone areas experience some of the driest seasons on record ever, both the Southern and Northern hemispheres have witnessed some of the worst wildfires in years in 2009. This weekend a massive wildfire was knocking at Los Angeles’ gates, but California, the Northwest and even Alaska have been getting lit all summer, as have [...]

Today’s coverage of the elections in South Africa in the New York Times evinces all kinds of pessimism in a political process that continually rewards the African National Congress no matter how low their approval ratings fall. After all, when you liberate a country from apartheid, you’re pretty much guaranteed positive name associations no matter [...]