Ruth Leon recommends… Ming Garden – Met Museum
Ruth Leon recommendsMing Garden – Met Museum
Regular readers of this Blog know how fascinated I am by process, by how things fit together, whether they are the individual steps that make a ballet, how an orchestrator can take a composer’s ideas and construct a musical score, the process by which an ancient tapestry can be cleaned using contemporary techniques, how a painting can be restored without losing the unique colour and artistry of a painter long dead. I love all this and I’m always delighted to find videos showing the process of making or displaying art of all kinds that I can share with you.
This week I was thrilled to watch a film, made by the Metropolitan Museum in 1983 of a unique collaboration between the US and China. In a space in the Museum in New York, using rare wood that had to be imported from China and techniques handed down for thousands of years, a group of Chinese and American craftsmen worked together to build a Ming Garden.
What is a Ming Garden? You’ll have to watch the film to find out.
So your recommendation is to… literally go to the maybe most well known and famous museum in the world, oh wow, thanks for your visionary advice, I would never have figured this out on my own at all, this is why we need critics, where can I buy your book, you’re amazing