CHINA MUSEUMS FEATURE – BEIJING OLYMPICS GAMES -CURATING TRAINING DEMAND
December 1st, 2005
BY MARK ROWE
CHINA has spent the past 15 years playing catch-up with the developed world by building skyscrapers and demolishing its old hutongs and alleyways. It has been accused by cultural organisations of taking the view that, in order to justify its existence everything must have an economic means and end. As a result, the cultural sector - in one of the world's most extraordinary repositories of art - has been left out in the cold.
In the past two years, however, this policy has been put in reverse and the country's lonely, neglected museums have been ...
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