A certain harvest, reflecting Dennis Nona
The River Cam flows gently through our little village. The ancient houses huddled around it as if for a secure purpose. In the days when ANDREA and I lived here it was still, more or less, a village in the traditional sense. The tiny village shop, the residents who only travelled into the nearest town on special occasions and had never made the journey to London, an hour’s train trip to the south.
There was the walk across the fields to Read more …
Museums and ideas
The collection of the Musée du Quai Branly numbers some 268,000 items, 236,509 of which were transferred from the ethnology laboratory of the Musée de l’Homme, and a further 22,740 from the Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Quai Branly has acquired a further 8,168 artefacts since 1998. From this collection around 3,600 items are exhibited in the public gallery spaces of the museum at any given time.
PETER HYLANDS caught up with PHILIPPE PELTIER, the curator of Indonesian and Read more …