Egypt
- Exchange Of Prisoners With Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Penn Museum (Pam Kosty) When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian section curator...
- 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...
- More Re Missing Artefacts Found
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) Today, with the help of Egypt’s armed forces and the tourism and antiquities police, five artefactes from 42 objects missing from the Egyptian Museum were recovered. The five items include four bronze objects depicting...
- Aera Website Updated
Thanks to a posting on EEF for the information that the AERA website has been updated with some new articles: Conserving and reconstructing a pyramid builder's house: http://www.aeraweb.org/spec_conservation.asp "In the autumn of 2005, AERA initiated...
- Egyptian Treasures: From The Collections Of The Brooklyn Museum
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York 1978 ISBN 0-8109-2170-7 How I dislike over sized books this one though half a book shelf long is not thick and it's size is exploited beautifully with full page photographs by Seth Joel. Many beautiful objects...
Egypt
Exhibition: The Dawn of Egyptian Art
nj.com (Dan Bischoff)
The bull’s head is tiny, napped from a flint core 5,650 years ago, but its horns make a beautifully sweet curve to point at one another with uncanny precision, like two curved knives. It’s astounding that it has survived so long intact, but it’s also pretty marvelous that anyone was able to chip it, with another stone, so exactly.
The bull’s head goes back more than halfway to the beginning of civilization, closer to the folks painting aurochs on cave walls than to, say, Michelangelo. And you don’t see many art exhibitions that go that far back — in fact, the “Dawn of Egyptian Art” at the Metropolitan Museum is one of the few shows in New York that ever has.
And yet even that long ago, art is already art, transforming everyday objects into symbols and artificially creating beauty. One of the most common decorated objects in this show are the flat greywacke stones used to mix cosmetics in every era.
Most of the 190 objects here are small, made of hard stone like flint or greywacke, or from ceramic, ivory or wood.
- Exchange Of Prisoners With Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Penn Museum (Pam Kosty) When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian section curator...
- 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...
- More Re Missing Artefacts Found
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) Today, with the help of Egypt’s armed forces and the tourism and antiquities police, five artefactes from 42 objects missing from the Egyptian Museum were recovered. The five items include four bronze objects depicting...
- Aera Website Updated
Thanks to a posting on EEF for the information that the AERA website has been updated with some new articles: Conserving and reconstructing a pyramid builder's house: http://www.aeraweb.org/spec_conservation.asp "In the autumn of 2005, AERA initiated...
- Egyptian Treasures: From The Collections Of The Brooklyn Museum
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York 1978 ISBN 0-8109-2170-7 How I dislike over sized books this one though half a book shelf long is not thick and it's size is exploited beautifully with full page photographs by Seth Joel. Many beautiful objects...