While the war over the National Museum rages…
We still haven’t visited the Maitum anthropomorphic jars, created around 110 BC by unknown artisans and used as burial vessels. These jars were discovered at the Ayub cave in Maitum, Saranggani Province.
A page from 10,000 Years of Art by Phaidon Books.
When at brunch I heard that former National Museum consultant John Silva had fired a broadside at the former (short-lived) board of the National Museum, and that the recently-resigned museum director Jeremy Barns had returned fire, I allowed myself to entertain the hope that we were in the midst of a real, all-out Culture War. There’s nothing like a Culture War—Verbal battles waged by smart people with large vocabularies! Polysyllabic insults unleashed! (I blow my nose at you! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!)
Naah, it’s still about politics.
Bert wants to know why the newspaper’s website is still Beta.
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