China 2000 Fine Art, which has long specialized in classical scholarly objects and furnishings but a few years ago began taking an interest in youngish contemporary artists, combines its dual interests in a particularly attractive gallery show, "Contemporary Brush Strokes: New York Artists From China," organized by the painter Lin Yan.
That's scholarly "objectivity".
The result of endless scholarly debates was unveiled, object by chronological object, on a BBC Radio 4 program in early 2010, narrated by Neil MacGregor, director of the museum.
Now there is Bing, the object of scholarly study.
He adds: "As a practitioner, I find it rather thrilling to be the object of scholarly investigation".
Imagine the face of Preston Sturges, say, if you had told him that, one day, Americans would approach that art as an object of scholarly study.
The ancient Greeks and Romans readily perceived that their languages were related to each other, and, as other European languages became objects of scholarly attention in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, many of these were seen to be more similar to Latin and Greek than, for example, to Hebrew or Hungarian.
Depictions of Fenrir have been identified on various objects, and scholarly theories have been proposed regarding Fenrir's relation to other canine beings in Norse mythology.
There's a long history of "ponderings on the object" in Chinese scholarly pursuits.
The large map, a masterpiece of woodblock printing, has been a star attraction at the library ever since and the object of revived scholarly fascination about the earliest cartography of the New World.
Acknowledging that some of Mr. West's scholarly activities have been the object of fierce debate, scholars say his participation at the conference, which is sponsored by the graduate school's Center for the Humanities, should not be a source of contention.
