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CHINA-ANYANG-AMERICAN CURATORS-YINXU-VISIT

(240519) -- ANYANG, May 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Tang Jigen, one of China's most senior archeologists on Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.-1046 B.C.), introduces Simuxin Ding, an ancient bronze vessel, to Chase Robinson, the director of the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States, at the Yinxu Museum in Anyang, central China's Henan Province, May 17, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Senior American curators visit Yinxu for inter-museum collaboration" (Xinhua/Zhai Xiang)

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CHINA-ANYANG-AMERICAN CURATORS-YINXU-VISIT

(240519) -- ANYANG, May 19, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Chase Robinson, the director of the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States, visits an archaeological site of royal tombs of Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.-1046 B.C.) in Anyang, central China's Henan Province, May 17, 2024. TO GO WITH "Feature: Senior American curators visit Yinxu for inter-museum collaboration" (Xinhua/Yuan Yueming)

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Rwanda's arts festival highlights vibrancy of African culture

STORY: Rwanda's arts festival highlights vibrancy of African culture SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 21, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 25, 2024 LENGTH: 00:03:41 LOCATION: Kigali CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the arts festival 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JAMES KENNEDY MAZIMPAKA, Rwandan actor and writer 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): JULES CEZAR NIYONKURU, Organizer of the event STORYLINE: A new arts festival launched by Rwanda is providing a platform for African artists and curators to explore new narratives and build relationships while highlighting the vibrancy of the African cultural scene. Organized by the Rwanda Arts Initiative (RAI) art center, the City of Kigali, and the Rwandan Ministry of Youth and Arts, the Kigali Triennial is a pan-African event that weaves together literature, theater, dance, music, cinema, fashion, digital arts, gastronomy, and design. The festival, themed "Where art, knowledge and business converge," runs from Feb. 16 to 25 in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. With more than 200 artists

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Art Rotterdam celebrates 25th anniversary

STORY: Art Rotterdam celebrates 25th anniversary SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 31, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 1, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:44 LOCATION: ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Art Rotterdam 2024 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FONS HOF, Director of Art Rotterdam 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): META VAN GRINSEN, Visitor STORYLINE: Art Rotterdam 2024, the 25th edition of the annual international contemporary art fair, opened Wednesday in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The five-day event attracted art enthusiasts, collectors, curators and artists from all over the world, showcasing a diverse selection of artworks from different media, styles and concepts. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FONS HOF, Director of Art Rotterdam "Rotterdam is a production city. It's a harbor city, but also in the cultural sense, it's a production city. There are a lot of artists, architects and designers, and what we bring in is the markets. So we bring in the collectors from all around Europe. They come

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Iran welcomes cultural exchanges with China via museum delegation: official

STORY: Iran welcomes cultural exchanges with China via museum delegation: official SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 21, 2023 DATELINE: Dec. 22, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:42 LOCATION: Tehran CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of Iranian museum 2. various of the meeting 3. various of Iranian museum STORYLINE: Cooperation and cultural exchanges will help promote bilateral ties between China and Iran, an Iranian official said in Tehran on Wednesday. Hadi Mirzaei, director general of the General Office of Museums of the Iranian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, made the remarks on the sidelines of the dispatching ceremony of an Iranian delegation dedicated to museums and cultural exchanges with China. The ceremony was attended by several Iranian museum curators who will attend a specialized training course on visiting museums in China in January 2024. Mirzaei said he hoped that the young Iranian museum curators who have joined the delegation will improve the future of Iran's museum curatorship and help

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IRAN-TEHRAN-CHINA-CULTURAL EXCHANGES

(231221) -- TEHRAN, Dec. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Several Iranian museum curators who will attend a specialized training course on visiting museums in China in January 2024 pose for a photo during the dispatching ceremony of an Iranian delegation dedicated to museums and cultural exchanges with China, in Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20, 2023. Cooperation and cultural exchanges will help promote bilateral ties between China and Iran, an Iranian official said here on Wednesday. Hadi Mirzaei, director general of the General Office of Museums of the Iranian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, made the remarks on the sidelines of the dispatching ceremony of an Iranian delegation dedicated to museums and cultural exchanges with China. (Xinhua/Shadati)

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Museum curators set up permanent disaster exhibit

SENDAI, Japan - Curator Hiroyasu Yamauchi stands in front of photos at the Rias Ark Museum of Art in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture on March 3, 2013, showing the devastating damage of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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"Cloud dialogue" between Chinese, Italian libraries held in E China

STORY: "Cloud dialogue" between Chinese, Italian libraries held in E China DATELINE: Nov. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:18 LOCATION: HANGZHOU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JIAO SHUANGLIN, Deputy director, Foreign Affairs Office of Ningbo Municipal People's Government STORYLINE: A "cloud dialogue" between a Chinese library and two Italian libraries was held at the launching ceremony of the 2022 Ningbo Italian Culture Week on Friday. Curators of the Tianyi Pavilion Library in China's Ningbo, the Medicean-Laurentian Library in Italy's Florence, and the Malatestiana Library in Italy's Cesena called on exchanges and cooperation among libraries in the world. Founded in 1561, Tianyi Pavilion or Tian Yi Ge is the oldest existing library in China which boasted a collection of 70,000 volume of antique books in its heyday. This year marks the China-Italy Year of Culture and Tourism. A series of cultural exchange events and activities will be held during the 2022 Ningb

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chayanne Marcano (1st L), and Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson (1st R), curators of the quilt project, watch as people make patches for a quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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U.S.-NEW YORK-JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION-COVID-19 VICTIMS-COMMEMORATION

(220621) -- NEW YORK, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chayanne Marcano (L) and Catherine Mbali Green-Johnson, curators of the quilt project, place a quilt memorializing victims of the COVID-19 pandemic during the 13th Annual Juneteenth Festival in Prospect Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on June 19, 2022. Participants made artworks or wrote words on the quilts in commemoration of their family members who died of the coronavirus. As African Americans in New York joined others from across the country to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, they also honored the lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic at a regular thematic event in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. TO GO WITH "Feature: New Yorkers honor lives lost to COVID-19 at Juneteenth celebration" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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Doll museum in eastern Japan

(From L) Asuka Iwata, Chika Sugahara, Mie Hirai and Mayumi Kanisawa, curators of the dolls at Iwatsuki Ningyo Museum in Saitama, near Tokyo, pose for a photo on July 9, 2020.

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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City Gallery Vysoke Myto, vernissage of paintings, building, windows, curators, visitors, people, pandemic, epidemic, covid-19

Curators show images from the windows due to coronavirus restrictions during the vernissage of paintings in Gallery in Vysoke Myto, Czech Republic, October 16, 2020. Heritage sights, theatres, cinemas, zoos as well as museums and galleries are closed for two weeks due to state of emergency in Czech Republic. (CTK Photo/Josef Vostarek)

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Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man, exhibition

Curators Lucie Nemeckova, left, and Blanka Kubikova viewing Rembrandt's graphics during an installation of the Rembrandt: Portrait of a Man exhibition in the Kinsky Palace in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 3, 2020. The exhibition was prepared by the National Gallery Prague in collaboration with Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Koln. (CTK Photo/Vit Simanek)

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Minister retracts controversial remark, apologizes

Kozo Yamamoto, the minister for regional revitalization, speaks during a lower house panel session in Tokyo on April 17, 2017. Yamamoto earlier the same day retracted and apologized for remarks in which he likened curators' guidance for foreign tourists to cancer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo