A different, and belated, souvenir

Feather dusters of all shapes and sizes – short ones for getting around bookshelves to great long ones on extendible poles for (presumably) giving one’s chandeliers a good going over, all extravagantly constructed of ostrich feathers, sufficiently long and luxurious enough to adorn the headress of a Pigale showgirl.

Valuing culture

In an interesting article in The Australian Julian Meyrick asks some searching questions about this very questioning, and explores some metrics around measuring the value of the arts, festivals, museums and culture in general.