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Article: CURATOR BOASTS HIS OWN COLLECTION OF CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY UNUSUAL DISPLAY `FORCES VIEWERS TO LOOK'.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 26, 1996
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H. Christopher Luce's ebullient enthusiasm for his subject keeps him in motion. Bounding about his calligraphy exhibit and talking a fast, non-stop patter, he seemed more like a sportscaster praising rebounds and dunk shots than a curator.
Yet New York's Luce is curator of ``Abstraction and Expression in Chinese Calligraphy'' at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Spanning five decades, the exhibit of ink scrolls was drawn from his own collection and partially financed by the Henry Luce Foundation. That he bears the same name as the foundation's is not a coincidence.
Luce is a self-taught scholar who has earned a certain degree of curatorial renown on the ...