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Publishing date: May 07, 2021 • May 7, 2021 • 4 minute read • Interview wtih Glenbow s new chief curator. jpg
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It was 25 years ago and on the other side of the world when Haema Sivanesan first heard about a museum-gallery hybrid in downtown Calgary that held an extensive collection of Asian art.
She was early in her career, working as a curator in the Asian art department of The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. So she was particularly interested in hearing about the unusually vast collection of art and artifacts the Glenbow Museum had amassed that fell directly into her wheelhouse.
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In April 1924 Rabindranath Tagore arrived in Shanghai for a lecture tour of China. Soon after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Tagore had become an international literary celebrity, lecturing to packed audiences from Japan to Argentina. His message that modern civilization, built upon the cult of money and power, was inherently destructive, and needed to be tempered by the spiritual wisdom of the East had a receptive audience among many people in the West who had been forced by World War I to question their faith in science and progress. But when, traveling in the East, he exhorted Asians not to abandon their traditional culture, he was often heckled and booed.