You probably can't afford this piece.
Posted on 12/27/2006 7:33:18 PM PST by maui_hawaii
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 27 — After four years of renovations that closed two-thirds of the building, the museum housing the world’s most famous collection of Chinese art is reopening this winter and holding a three-month exhibition of its rarest works.
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You probably can't afford this piece.
Oh, I'm so impressed..............not
It is so cool that when they went to Taiwan, the took the best of the treasures with them.
Hope it is still there. Is Taipei still under the tsunami alert from the quake?
Well why not force yourself to stop reading and posting on my thread. That would solve the whole issue right there.
Good thing because Mao's goons would have smashed the stuff up.
I wouldn't pay $5 bucks for that. Well, I would and then sell it for whatever crazy price someone would pay... but you know what I mean.
I don't think they are under tsunami alert but I could be wrong. Plus this place is in Taipei. The quakes were off the SW coast.
You seem to believe that if I read your post I must like it. To bad I read it and I'm not impressed, so there. When you say, "my thread", you seem small.
Can you believe some dumbass built a whole building costing MILLIONS to house a few sheets of old paper in Washington DC? Its the original Constitution, but hey since when does that matter?
I get what you mean, but that's the point . . . you can pay for something that serves a similar purpose. Now, do you think you could make one that looks the same by hand?
You don't have to like the thread, nor the article, nor do you have to be impressed.
Nor do you have to post to an innocuous thread either.
I'm totally educated about what I am looking at. I just get no personal utility out of knowing that the object that I own are old.
The Constitution is 'old' too, but would you want an original copy of that?
Age isn't the issue, at least not entirely.
The only threads where the poster has total privelege over what gets said are the day in the life threads. Part of posting a thread is the fact that you open it up for comments. If for some reason you can't bear thought of someone not liking chinese art as much as you do, then don't post the thread, or ask JimRob for permission for a special "Day in the life of Chinese Art" thread.
I know its not just old, I just don't care about chinese art. I do care about the constitution, so I would want an original.
Southern Taiwan? They were affected and still experiencing aftershocks of 5.0 mag. I think the tsunami alert is still on.
I think you should go see the Palace right now. I hear it is an excellent time to travel.
Let us know how that works out for you.
::evil grin::
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