Egypt
Examiner.com (Sofia Ambrosia)
With photos.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Epoch Times
With a different photo.
- Exhibition Review: The Dawn Of Egyptian Art
California Literary Review (Ed Voves) With lovely photos. Ancient Egypt, the world’s first nation-state, really was “the gift of the Nile.” But much of the form and content of Egypt’s art can be traced far back, beyond the time of pyramids...
- Exhibition: The Dawn Of Egyptian Art (met Museum, Ny)
New York Times (Roberta Smith) Thanks to Brian Alm and Barbara O'Neill for the links to this excellent review of the "The Dawn of Egyptian Art" (Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum), with a 12 picture slideshow. In many ways the art of dynastic...
- Exhibition: Phoenix Ancient Art To Show Early Faience
The Sacramento Bee A spectacular exhibition of ancient art works of faience from the private collection of the Aboutaam family will be on view at Phoenix Ancient Art in New York (47 East 66th Street) from December 6th-30th, 2011. The exhibition will then...
- Exhibition: The General Who Became King
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) With photos. The ambitious successor of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.) is the subject of Haremhab, The General Who Became King, opening November 10, 2010 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. This landmark...
- Conference: Origin Of The State
There's no website available yet but further details for registering etc are promised for late summer. Dear Colleague, Please find below the announcement calling for papers to be delivered at the upcoming Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: Origin...
Egypt
Exhibition: Dawn of Egyptian Art
Examiner.com (Sofia Ambrosia)
With photos.
Atlanta arts and antiquities lovers, the Metropolitan Museum of Art debuts its impressive new exhibitions entitled, The Dawn of Egyptian Art, opening up the extensive collection to the press for a preview on April 2, 2012 in New York City.
Egyptian artifacts and artworks from the Nile Valley dating from 4,000 to 2,649 B.C. are being featured in the exhibition which runs from April 10 through August 5, 2012.
The Met describes its Dawn of Egyptian Art exhibition to include objects and art which were the result of the Egyptian civilization recording their beliefs through paintings, reliefs and sculptures they made for their shrines and tombs.
One can see how these beliefs and world view changed over the millennia through their artforms.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Some 180 examples of the very earliest works of Egyptian art—created in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, around 4400 B.C.–2649 B.C. (the end of Dynasty 2) from throughout Egypt—will be featured in the exhibition The Dawn of Egyptian Art, opening April 10, 2012, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Outstanding examples of sculpture, painting, and relief from the collections of the Metropolitan and 11 other museums in the United States and Europe have been gathered for this presentation.
“Visitors who are familiar with the appearance of hieroglyphs and other later Egyptian artistic expressions will be surprised by these early works, which are very different in scale, style, and subject matter,” commented exhibition organizer Diana Craig Patch. “Yet, if we look closely at this early art, we can already detect the origins of certain signs in later hieroglyphic writing and of some symbols and concepts associated with ancient Egyptian rulers and the gods. The Predynastic and Early Dynastic period was a time of great creativity, before the ‘typically Egyptian’ forms became codified. Yet, because of the rarity of these objects and lack of inscriptions, we cannot always explain what they meant to the early Egyptians.”
Epoch Times
With a different photo.
- Exhibition Review: The Dawn Of Egyptian Art
California Literary Review (Ed Voves) With lovely photos. Ancient Egypt, the world’s first nation-state, really was “the gift of the Nile.” But much of the form and content of Egypt’s art can be traced far back, beyond the time of pyramids...
- Exhibition: The Dawn Of Egyptian Art (met Museum, Ny)
New York Times (Roberta Smith) Thanks to Brian Alm and Barbara O'Neill for the links to this excellent review of the "The Dawn of Egyptian Art" (Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum), with a 12 picture slideshow. In many ways the art of dynastic...
- Exhibition: Phoenix Ancient Art To Show Early Faience
The Sacramento Bee A spectacular exhibition of ancient art works of faience from the private collection of the Aboutaam family will be on view at Phoenix Ancient Art in New York (47 East 66th Street) from December 6th-30th, 2011. The exhibition will then...
- Exhibition: The General Who Became King
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) With photos. The ambitious successor of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.) is the subject of Haremhab, The General Who Became King, opening November 10, 2010 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. This landmark...
- Conference: Origin Of The State
There's no website available yet but further details for registering etc are promised for late summer. Dear Colleague, Please find below the announcement calling for papers to be delivered at the upcoming Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: Origin...