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NOT "INSIDE" BUT BACK IN TIME

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I still felt stunned by the INSIDE exhibition. Either I am going to reject these installations from now on, or go to see some of them with Jerome and Laurent. They don’t like everything either, but when they do, their arguments are quite convincing. No-one at the Guimet museum either. It’s a charming centre and the effort should or could be made to come more often. « The Splendors des Han » was marked down in my « to see list » and it could only be very much better than what I had just been through. 

It was of course.  Looking down on the first gallery The poster for the exhibition I Have always loved this I don’t pretend to know much about this dynasty ((209BC-9AC) except that anytime I look at it, everything seems to be modern, so well preserved and sophisticated. The excavations and research that has been done in China goes to show how advanced these populations were. Maybe it’s a very good thing that they sent to much with their dead to go...