LOS ANGELES (AP) — For a thousand years China's Cave Temples of Dunhuang were a popular traveler's rest stop, marketplace and religious shrine on the fabled Silk Road. In an exhibition curators say is unprecedented, three full-scale, hand-painted replica caves have been erected on The Getty Center museum's hilltop campus overlooking LA. Nearby, in an adjacent gallery, the museum has assembled more than 40 spectacularly preserved and priceless artifacts taken from one of the caves, and in still another gallery visitors can take a 3-D virtual reality tour of on an actual cave in China, this one filled with life-size sculptures of the Buddha and his entourage. [...] displayed are sculptures of European-looking people, a travel document carried by a monk from India and numerous artistic depictions of the Buddha. Two of the three Getty caves were built from the ground up for the exhibition by artists who came to Los Angeles from China's Dunhuang Academy, which collaborated with The Getty's research and conservation institutes to produce the exhibition.
La's Getty Center Recreates China's Cave Temples Of Dunhuang
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Living
Fri, 05/06/2016 - 3:09pm
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