ART on View 88 Columbian artworks during the 2008 Olympics in the Beijing World Art Museum. Though a number of special exhibitions have come to the Bowers from China, it wasn’t until 2014 that the Bowers again had the opportunity to exhibit on a large scale in China. Over the last five years, more than 2,200 museums have been planned and built in China. While many of these architecturally elaborate buildings focus on local relics and treasures, some of the multi-gallery venues devote exhibition space to artwork from abroad. The Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou, China, is one of these. Aware that the nearby Guangzhou Museum had recently presented a photographic exhibition of Native FIG. 6: Human effigy jar. Casas Grandes, Southwest. AD 1200–1450. Terracotta, pigment. H: 16.8 cm. Bowers Museum, inv. F74.8.12. FIG. 7: Margaret Tafoya (1904–2001), wedding jar, c. 1970. Santa Clara, Southwest. Terracotta. H: 106.7 cm. Bowers Museum, inv. 92.31.1.
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