It's one thing to count your blessings, or sheep - and quite another to count the items in a museum's collection. But here in Beijing, The Palace Museum - also known as the Forbidden City - has finished doing just that. It took the museum staff seven

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Over 50 printmaking artists from the countries along the Belt and Road have recently gathered in Shenzhen for an exhibition. These artists were given time to create two prints for the exhibition. Kang Jianfei is the curator. These artists have lived

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Idiom: No harm no foul 没事,没关系 Hit the book: Portrait Suspect Curator Exhibit Utter Echo Eerily Uneasy Trunk

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每年都会有探险队前往南极进行考察,有些人甚至再也没有回来过,这些人的工作真的很伟大... Michelle: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Michelle. Helen: And I'm Helen. Michelle: To

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Lesson 57 The Curious Custodian 好奇的看守人 Words: curator n. (博物馆等)馆长 curiosity n 好奇心 curious adj. (令人)好奇的 currency n. 通货,货币 current n. (液体,气体的)流,趋势;adj. 现今的 curriculum n. 学校的全部课程 cursory adj. 仓促的,粗略

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1. It's not winter yet, but much of the country has already experienced the winter blast. Snow and freezing rain which moved through the Midwest early Friday knock ed out power, delayed flights and sl

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A rare performance by renowned Aboriginal dancers marked the start of one of Australia's most important festivals of indigenous art. The unique dance of the Gurrir Gurrir people depicts events associated with a devastating tropical cyclone in 1974. T

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'He's Not A Leading Man': A Casting Director On Rembrandt's Self-Portraits DAVID GREENE, HOST: Los Angeles is pretty star struck these weeks before the Oscars, as usual. But over in nearby Pasadena, a crowd of art lovers is visiting this 400-plus-yea

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: 2017 marked a hundred years since Andrew Wyeth was born. His Christina's World is one of the most iconic American paintings of all time, right alongside Whistler's Mother and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Karen Michel reports that

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: On his first day on the job, President Trump made some changes to the Oval Office. He installed gold drapes and moved some statues. First families do have some leeway to make changes to the White House, including changes througho

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Rocky Mountain museum is creating its own Jurassic adventure bone by bone Joseph Mok | Washington, DC 07 December 2009 Dinosaur researchers have made giant strides in recent years, however they know that the vast majority of dinosaur specimens have y

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I really wanted to see the new exhibit at the art museum and invited Lucy to come along. We both like contemporary art and this was an exhibition for an artist that we've both liked, ever since she was an up and coming artist 10 years ago. This was a

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Smithsonian Museum opens new window on human origins Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 02 April 2010 Photo: Chip Clark, Jim DiLoreto, Don Hurlbert, Smithsonian Institution Five fossil human skulls show how the shape of the face and braincase of early

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Cultural activities are in full swing across China to mark the International Museum Day, which falls on this Friday. CRI's Su Yi brings us the story of one of the activities happening in Beijing. The worldwide community of museums is celebrating Inte

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By Suzanne Chislett London 16 August 2007 Ten thousand people have already come to see an exhibition featuring Islamic masterpieces at the Ismaili Centre in London. And the exhibition just opened in the middle of July. The collection is a unique prev

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Someone who manages a museum is called a curator. Imagine that you are a curator. What problems could you possibly have? What nightmares about your work could wake you in the night? Surely, museum curators have jobs with little stress or worry. Perha

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