The Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi’an has signed a formal partnership agreement with the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, where an exhibition of the terracotta figures is currently running. The director of the Xi’an museum and colleagues were especially impressed with the Institute’s educational programs and its focus on culture and technology.
Tag: 11.09.17
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.09.17
Arts Funding, US vs. UK, and Chamber Music
One of the key issues which underlies this blog and the book which inspired it is the role of public funding in the arts. I hate to give the end away, but … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-11-09
Who is the greatest living publisher of cookery books? Read on
As I am a regular contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,and still earn a bit of my keep by writing obituaries for the British national newspapers, it is a rare delight to … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2017-11-09
Without The Humanities, Preparing For Endless War, Or Endless Work, Whichever
Marilynne Robinson: “There is an impulse behind the recent assaults on great institutions that is historically expressed as social engineering. The ideal worker will not have a head full of poetry, say the neo-Benthamites. It is assumed, of course, that he or she will be potentially omnicompetent in service to the ever-changing needs and demands of the new economy—highly trained, that is, to acquire some undescribed skill set that will be proof against obsolescence. We await particulars. But the object is clear — to create a virtual army out of the general population who will compete successfully against whomever for whatever into an endless future, at profound cost to themselves.”