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...priceless items that have never been returned - the People's Republic has shipped another exquisite cull of artwork to the island. There are just 37 pieces this time (comprising Qing dynasty paintings, vases, seals and other artifacts), and they are strictly on loan from Beijing's Palace Museum. But the gesture is unprecedented, emotionally charged and heralded as one of the fruits of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's conciliatory cross-strait policy...
...loaned pieces are featured in the exhibition "Harmony and Integrity: The Yongzheng Emperor and His Times," and are on show at Taipei's National Palace Museum, www.npm.gov.tw, until Jan. 10, together with two pieces from the Shanghai Museum and 207 from the Taiwan vaults. While one doesn't want to read too much into it, the title's emphasis on unity will resonate with many, and Beijing's decision to have made this particular show the first to which it has lent pieces is probably no accident. Much of the lavish artwork produced under the Qing incorporated the varying artistic...
...ferry in July, and Shanghai will have its own Solar Sailor ferry by the start of the 2010 World Expo. Founded in 1999, the company's innovative designs won the Australian Design Award of the Year, and Solar Sailor became the first Australian company recognized by the prestigious Tech Museum Awards. The inspiration for the solar sails, says Robert Dane, CEO of Solar Sailor, was ancient arthropods. "Insects first evolved wings as solar collectors," Dane says, but the primitive wings could also catch the wind and blow them away from predators...
Early news reports offered various explanations for the cannonball’s presence, such as that the couple used it as a door stop or tried to donate it to a museum. Condit said these reports about the shiny, brown cannonball were not true...
Pamuk began the lecture by telling the audience how he had collected items he thought were unique. Not only did Pamuk incorporate these items in his latest book, “Museum of Innocence,” but he also said that he plans to open a museum featuring these items in July...