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Treasures of China at Sackler Gallery |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Joanna Shaw-Eagle |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 768 Words, 5,302 Characters |
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Like most museums, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Washington's companion Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery face audiences who are demanding more and more but aren't quite sure what they want museums to be.
Do they want them to be contemplative, like cathedrals? Social gathering places, like the old village green? Sites of higher education through Acoustiguide recorded audio tours? Repositories for works of beauty? Creators of intensively hyped blockbusters? In the Sackler Gallery's superb "Views of Ch...
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...ianapolis Museum of Art," but this is a minor fault in a highly original, illuminating and pleasurable exhibit.
WHAT: "Asia in America: Views of Chinese Art From the Indianapolis Museum of Art"
WHERE: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW
HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, through March 20
TICKETS: Free
PHONE: 202/633-1000
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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