Tune In, Turn On, Dress Up: Hippie Chic at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts
If you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there, the mantra of that weed-filled decade goes. For those who missed it—for pharmaceutical reasons or otherwise—the Museum of Fine Arts Boston opens its Hippie...
View ArticleAll By My Selfie: National Geographic Photographers Muse on the Word of the Year
Selfie: A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website. The Lord of Words, aka, the Oxford English Dictionary, has...
View ArticleWhat Comes Out of a Whale and Goes Into Perfume? Ambergris!
A New Zealand dealer holds a chunk of ambergris (or “gray amber”). Photo by Christopher Kemp Literature is full of quests. Jason hunted for the golden fleece. Dorothy followed the yellow brick road to...
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What Comes Out of a Whale and Goes Into Perfume? Ambergris!
A New Zealand dealer holds a chunk of ambergris (or “gray amber”). Photo by Christopher Kemp Literature is full of quests. Jason hunted for the golden fleece. Dorothy followed the yellow brick road to...
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How the Grammy Hat Worn by Pharrell Williams Fits into the History of...
Photograph by Lester Cohen, WireImage “Traditionally whatever is worn on the head, whether or not it grows there naturally, is a sign of the mind beneath it,” writes Alison Lurie in The Language of...
View ArticleHow the Grammy Hat Worn by Pharrell Williams Fits into the History of...
Photograph by Lester Cohen, WireImage “Traditionally whatever is worn on the head, whether or not it grows there naturally, is a sign of the mind beneath it,” writes Alison Lurie in The Language of...
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Mapping Out the Hidden World of Women Cartographers
Kirstine Colban’s first known map, of the Lofoten Islands. Source: Avdeling for fag og forskning, Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, Norway. “Oftentimes the world of women cartographers seems to be hidden,...
View ArticleFictional Nat Geo Photographer Gives His Regards to Broadway in “Bridges of...
Actor Steven Pasquale stars in the play, “Bridges of Madison County.” (Photograph by Joan Marcus) Meet Robert Kincaid. Plays guitar. Smokes Camels. Stuffs a knapsack full of equipment in his pick-up...
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Fictional Nat Geo Photographer Gives His Regards to Broadway in “Bridges of...
Actor Steven Pasquale stars in the play, “Bridges of Madison County.” (Photograph by Joan Marcus) Meet Robert Kincaid. Plays guitar. Smokes Camels. Stuffs a knapsack full of equipment in his pick-up...
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‘Hate Kills’: Photos and Insights From Photographer Lynn Johnson
This cross was burned on the lawn of an African-American family. There were four small children in the house at the time. (Minnesota)—Photograph by Lynn Johnson The geography of hate is a litany of...
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