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Curators present Masterpieces

VCM presents video's to you, that offer their own perspective to specific masterpieces and to the phenomenon of masterpieces in general. The videos give information about international cooperation projects and participating museums as well.

Heidi

Heidi Tan, curator at the Singapore Asian Civilisations Museum, discusses a masterpiece.

Year of release: 2007
Time length: 1:27
 

China

Chinese students discuss the concept of a masterpiece; Shanghai, June 2006.

Year of release: 2007
Time length: 5:00

What is a masterpiece

Asian and European students and professionals in the field of culture give their definition of the concept of Masterpiece.

Year of release: 2007
Time length: 7:24

My choice

Five seconds a piece!! Asian and European students and professionals in the field of culture reveal their choice of masterpieces.

Year of release: 2007
Time length: 2:06

MuSEA

 

Karl Magnusson and Nguyen Hai Ninh present the MuSEA cooperation programme.
 

Year of release: 2009
Time length: 2:26

ASEMUS General Conference, Manila

 

Interview of Corazon Alvina, Stéphane Martin and Steven Engelsman

 

Year of release: 2009

Time lenght: 2:49

Christine Hemmet

 

Christine Hemmet, curator at musée du quai Branly (Paris), discusses the concept of masterpiece.

 

Year of release: 2009
Time length: 3:19

Pierre Baptiste

 

Pierre Baptiste, Curator East Asian Collections at Musée Guimet (Paris), discusses a masterpiece.

 

Year of release: 2009
Time length: 6:21
 

The Palace Museum

Presentation of the Palace Museum in Beijing

Year of release: 2010
Time length: 6:54

Jing Wang (I)

Jing Wang (PhD at EHESS, Paris) discusses the Chinese Spring Festival  
in Paris.


Year of release: 2010
Time length: 4:30

Jing Wang (II)

Jing Wang comments on the collection of the Chinese Spring Festival of the musée du quai Branly in Paris.


Year of release: 2010
Time length: 8:17
 

A Passage to Asia

In this Bozar Broadcast clip curator Jan Van Alphen and cocurator Kenson Kwok lift the Oriental veil.


Year of release: 2010
Time length: 4:01

National Museum of Korea


Presentation of the National Museum of Korea, Seoul


Year of release: 2010
Time length: 3:18
 

Selena Wang and a Gu
 
Selena Wang, Assistant curator for China at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore discusses a "Gu", a trumpet-shaped bronze vessel.

Year of release: 2010
Time length: 1:53

Selena Wang and a Dehua

Selena Wang, Assistant curator for China at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore discusses a Dehua figurine of Zhenwu Dadi.
 

Year of release: 2010
Time length: 1:37
 

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