

This animated carving of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, now held at the Berlin State Museums, is a timeless icon that glides across the ages and peers into the future. (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-rartholden09.html) During one act in her endless odyssey, the mesmerizing deity jetted into Beijing to radiate across a massive German exhibition on The Art of the Enlightenment staged at The National Museum of China, on the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square.