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HEADLINES

Clay Ceiling - Paul Richard/ Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR2006032601217.html

[Fernando]

Museo del Estanquillo.
Nuevo museo (inaugurado en noviembre 2005) en el Centro Historico de la ciudad de México:
http://www.museodelestanquillo.com/

Se perfila como un espacio lleno de humor que rompe con nuestra idea de lo que un museo debe ser, bástenos decir que el curador es el caricaturista El Fisgón. Para cerrar con broche de oro, se ubica en una de las esquinas más hermosas de la ciudad -Madero e Isabela Católica- y es, una de las coordenadas más lúdicas y atractivas del Centro Histórico.

Cierra los martes.
http://www.museodelestanquillo.com/

[AlvinRosenbaum]

POCITELJ, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: THE LONG & SHORT OF IT
http://www.pocitelj.org

I'll keep this brief. Pocitelj is an Ottoman fortress village that survived the centuries until Croats from across the border took it over, destroyed the mosque, pillaged the houses and ran off the residents during the Bosnian War in the 1990s. It is a lovely place that is being rebuilt, stone by stone, but remains mostly empty and forgotten.

Recently listed as one of the world's most endangered important historic sites by the World Monuments Fund, it was placed on the Tentative List for enrollment as a World Heritage Site. A leading expert was engaged to lead a team to prepare a Management Plan, but a local architect who had a free house and nominal control over the site, fed a naive news reporter propaganda that foreigners were taking over Bosnia's cherished patrimony, causing a political stir and essentially destroying any chance of the work continuing or for appropriate protections and investment to be put in place.

Now, after four centuries, these hundred structures, the best examples of Ottoman architecture in Europe, are mostly left empty so that one woman can enjoy it as a weekend getaway with her few friends.

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