http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/cambodias-enduring-mystery/ The online magazine of the Getty Wed, 22 May 2013 18:32:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/cambodias-enduring-mystery/#comment-20075 Ian MacLeod Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:44:52 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=3376#comment-20075 I had the pleasure of taking my Director General of Culture and the Arts in Western Australia, Ms Allanah Lucas, on a tour of the exhibition two days after it opened and all that Sean has said is true but it is also a real lesson in understatement. The exhibition is superbly crafted, it has wonderful sensitivity to the topic and to the culture of the Khmer people and the objects are at times overwhelmingly beautiful. If you come up the hill and view the exhibition I am sure you will delighted with the brilliant craftmanship made at the height of their civilization. I had the pleasure of taking my Director General of Culture and the Arts in Western Australia, Ms Allanah Lucas, on a tour of the exhibition two days after it opened and all that Sean has said is true but it is also a real lesson in understatement. The exhibition is superbly crafted, it has wonderful sensitivity to the topic and to the culture of the Khmer people and the objects are at times overwhelmingly beautiful. If you come up the hill and view the exhibition I am sure you will delighted with the brilliant craftmanship made at the height of their civilization.

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