Why is the ancient mural controversial as a background wall?

(Xinhua) -- This month, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York held an exhibition entitled "China: Mirror Water Month" to coincide with New York's annual fashion event, known as the "New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Charity Ball" known as the Fashion World Oscar.The most controversial part of the
exhibition is the use of a collection of North China Grottoes, such as the "Li Daozan Rate 500 Artificial Statue", the Longmen Grotto "North Wei Xiaowen Dili Buddha Map" relief and the Yuan Dynasty mural "Pharmacist Buddha's Map" as the background wall for the fashion show.
news once released, it caused the social media Chinese netizens to question, summed up the following two main issues: First, stone carvings, frescoes and other cultural relics on the light, temperature and humidity changes are very sensitive, the scene of the open exhibition mode, will cause damage to it; Second, the theme of the exhibition - "China's influence on Western fashion" is suspected of misleading the public, some art historians pointed out that Western modern fashion and Oriental Buddhist art is out of step.
both professionals and frequent visitors to museums will notice that the collections are often better preserved than archaeologically unearthed, for one important reason being their continued use and maintenance. It's as big as a building, and so is it. In Italy, many roman-era buildings were converted into churches in the Middle Ages and survived in 2000. From this point of view, "China: Mirror Flower Water Moon" exhibition as an attempt to use cultural relics and publicity, should not be fundamentally denied.
basis, we will discuss how cultural relics should be used. There is something debatable about the exhibition: first, whether cultural relics will be unintentionally or even intentionally destroyed in their use. Second, there are concerns that such exhibitions mis-disseminate the value of cultural relics precisely because most people do not understand what they really mean. Even the organization misled the audience by attaching something that was not relevant for commercial reasons.
of cultural relics is an unavoidable subject. Professionals do not do ostrich, it is better to take the initiative to deal with, toward standardization. In addition, the effective protection and rational use of cultural relics, but also need the participation and support of the whole society. This requires professional researchers to assume the responsibility of publicity and education, play a good role as a bridge.