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...must not be incompatible with existing international human rights instruments...
Unless copious usage of butter can be considered a human rights violation, French cuisine fits each of these categories perfectly. On what grounds, then, could UNESCO shoot down the French proposal? Khaznadar’s dismissal seems trivial; given this definition of the ICH, gastronomy should, by all means, be eligible for consideration. Is the committee simply unwilling to accept the consequences of their definition of the ICH? Or is there a problem with the definition itself, if it allows gastronomy to slip into...
...result is a shockingly detailed, brutally credible, and unexpectedly comedic novel. Moya, who was born in Honduras and raised in El Salvador, was exiled because of his socially conscious opinons. “Senselessness” is based on the atrocities of the 40-year Guatemalan genocide and the human rights report of the Guatemalan Catholic Archdiocese that exposed the massacres. It is his first work to be translated into English, and it utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned...
...creative young man denied the approval of his dominating mother due to his homosexuality and betrayed by Warhol’s Machiavellian manipulation of the boy’s talent and love. Instead of expanding the idea of Andy Warhol as an icon, Robinson delves into the personal, human interactions that the Factory ultimately thrived on but which were often overshadowed by Warhol.Williams spent time at Harvard, honing both his visual sensitivity as a member of The Harvard Crimson photography staff and—as Robinson speculates—his appreciation for drugs as a possible test subject...
...really think her work is about reinforcing that idea of the communal effect, of getting people together in the same place, seeing something together, sensing bodies in the same room, hearing people breathe,” Pecci says. “It’s a human experience. Someone smells. It’s not like you’re home by yourself watching something on your laptop.” Paulus understands the importance of an active audience to her work. “The audience is just as culpable as the creators of the art in terms...