They are among the first one hundred names to be written on an Arctic Scroll, which is launched by Greenpeace today at the Rio Earth Summit.
He said there had been a lot of competition to get the scroll, which is on something of a world tour.
They include one of the museum's most important Chinese scrolls – 4th-century Admonitions scroll, which is only ever available to view for a few months of the year because it is so fragile.
The scroll, which is on loan from Kagami Shrine in Japan and has never before been seen in the United States, turned out to be five feet taller than curators expected.
In the reign of the Zhengde emperor (1505 21) the influence of the Muslim palace eunuchs who supervised the imperial kilns is seen in such blue-and-white motifs as the Mohammedan scroll, which is composed of somewhat formal flowers joined by S-shaped stems, with scroll-like leaves at intervals along them.
The exhibition's curator Professor Dick Ellis said there had been a lot of competition to get the scroll which is itself spending a lot of time on the move, having toured a string of US cities and hitting the road to Rome once this show is over.
Also new is a continuous scroll, which is more of a performance improvement related to moving through the App Store search results, which was not always the fastest way to navigate through a set of applications.
It is therefore preceded by the segment held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs and followed by the 5th segment of the Matsudaira clan scroll which is in possession of the Morikawa family.
If you visit the Museum of Fine Arts Boston these days, you can witness conservation in action on an enormous Japanese hanging scroll, which is currently being remounted in the Asian paintings gallery.
What's special about it is the creative process happens at the same time as the viewer beholds the painting often in a social gathering or in the privacy of a literati's study, the exchange of ideas and emotions between multiple artists/intellectuals are recorded on the painting scroll, which is rolled out gradually.
