Satellite images give us a dimension of forest cover loss. From one year to the next, and sometimes in just a few weeks, a forest can be wiped off the map. The trees that gave identity to a hillside, a plain or the banks of a river cease to exist; they become a memory. In […]
The resilience of Mexicans can be seen on the art painted on their place of worships where angels held harps, guitars, and violins in their hands, their Baroque lips smiling, like an image of heaven replete with music and joy, set in iridescent medallions against a blue-green field twisted with gold and crimson filigree.
As Michoacán’s centuries-old chapels undergo restorations, the buildings raise new questions about how architectural conservation should work and whom such projects are really for.