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  1. Thanks Mary Louise for an exceedingly fair review of this rare art and the difficult context in which it's presented. Your references to George Washington and Catherine the Great were particularly helpful.

    As a consequence of the understandable controversy, attendance will be up. I have great concerns, however, that MAM's brand going forward will be vilified as opulent, elitist, anti-American, and anti-worker.

    Not exactly known as a bastion of workers rights, the Wall Street Journal just did a piece on the conditions of Chinese workers: "Measuring the human cost of an iPad made in China."

    Electrical Enginnering Times published this in February:
  2. I wonder why more art isn't controversial. How many slaves died erecting the great monuments of the ancient world? People flock to the Louvre, even though it once housed French monarchs. I'm sure the apprentices who made so much of the art in Renaissance Italy didn't make the minimum wage.
  3. Do not know alot about China to be honest. Their art does seem to strike contrast with aspects of the regular person's life in China. Believe the attention to beauty was really about expressing the sorrows of the people.
  4. Qianlong is not the longest ruling emperor in China’s history.
    His grandfather Kangxi ruled a year long, 61 years, and there
    were at least three earlier emperors who ruled longer,
  5. I appreciate your very informative and interesting work.
  6. Fulin, great question. Qianlong was effectively the longest ruling Qing emperor. Though he abdicated to his son, out of deference to Kangxi, he continued to rule for quite some time after. This seemed like a bit too much detail for my review, but I'm glad you raise the issue.
  7. neEpYM Thanks for the article.


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