Jeffrey Johnson, an architect who runs the China Megacities Lab at Columbia, is among a number of scholars who study China's rapid urbanization. He says local governments are building museums to create a cultural life and competitive identity for their cities.
But China lost a lot of art because of its civil war in the 1940s, as well as the Cultural Revolution, looting and overseas sales. Johnson says many museums are going up faster than curators can fill them with works and audiences.
— npr.org
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Mao destroyed all the cultural artifacts in China that he could...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.
"Jeffrey Johnson, an architect who runs the [what] at Columbia University . . ."
(As a died-in-the-wool constructivist I have to love that expo pavilion. But I'd like to see it resting upon an acre or three of stone plaza, perhaps atop a battered-wall plinth . . . ?)
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