China Art Museum
Crown-shaped former World Expo pavilion turned Asia's largest museum of modern Chinese art.
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This guide to the China Art Museum in Shanghai opens with architect He Jingtang standing before television cameras, forced to swear that his crimson, crown-shaped design was not stolen. It follows his win over three hundred forty-four rival proposals for the 2010 World Expo, and the accusation that followed almost as soon as the pavilion opened, tying it to a Japanese architect's earlier Seville building. You'll hear the Chinese sources He pointed to instead, from an ancient wooden roof bracket to a bronze ritual vessel, and how the tiers above you carry that argument in their shape. Look up at the widening red tiers before you step inside.
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