China (just Shanghai?) And she was kindly invited us to come
experience a taping session and be a part of the audience! We had
never seen the show before, so we imagined it would be something like
Oprah, but more Chinese-y. She'd told us about previous shows,
interesting guests the director had chosen (A personal trainer for the
Mental health episode...) andother current event discussions, some
struggles of tough topics like twitter and social networking sites
(many which are banned in china). The show is called, "Culture Matters".
This episode we sat in was about Art and its accessibility to the
public, in light of the recent decision to move the Shanghai Art
museum (Which is HUGE) from People's square to the China Pavillion on
the expo site (which is basically a ghost town, since they've
demolished the other pavillions....!) <a href="http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/features/Blog/4758/China-Pavilion-to-be-Art-Palace.html
"> see article </a>
My friend May-yi, the host (sitting on the right side) was born
stateside, then raised in Taiwan, and went to Harvard later. She had
mentioned that they would ask the audience a question or two (more
like 10) and was encouraging us to answer, esp since we were some of
the few foreigners- helping diversify the audience of 12.
They began with a quiz- "Name that art museum!" Which I knew all the
Parisien thanks to my trip with Megan. Pompidou! Lourve! But
incidentally couldn't recall the architect for the Lourve. (IM Pei).
They talked about museum behaivor- not running or eating, no cell
phones and where those semi-subjective "acceptable behaviors" were
taught or should be taught.
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