Egypt
SFGate (Kenneth Baker)
With photos.
See the above page for full details.
- Tutankhamun Still Selling Well
IndyStar.com A four-month King Tut exhibit at the Children’s Museum has had thousands of ticket orders today. In the first few hours after the museum opened ticket sales, the museum has sold more than 19,000 tickets, said Jaclyn Falkenstein, public...
- Revenue From Tutankhamun In The 1970s
ArtNet (Thomas Hoving) Thomas Hoving is author of Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game (2005) and is former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The same stories circulate each time the Golden Age exhibition moves to a new venue, but I thought it...
- Gas Tokens To Pay For Tutankhamun Tickets
Star-Telegram (Eva-Marie Ayala) This is a rather different approach to encouraging parents to whisk their children to potentially educational exhibitions. Fuel prices shouldn’t stop Tarrant County students from seeing the pharaoh in Dallas.So organizers...
- Tickets Go On Sale For Dallas King Tut Exhibit
The Earth Times Following the success of the first U.S. tour, which drew nearly 4 million visitors and broke records at each of the four museums it visited from June 2005 through September 2007, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" will return...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...
Egypt
Profit, not learning, drives 'Tutankhamun'
SFGate (Kenneth Baker)
With photos.
Among people with a professional interest in the arts, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs," which opens today at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, will merely deepen the tarnish on the reputation of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Although FAMSF curator Renee Dreyfus has swapped out four objects presented at other venues for four of her own choosing, the show in bulk comes here prepackaged by National Geographic and Arts and Exhibitions International, a subsidiary of corporate impresario AEG Worldwide, which also owns the San Francisco Examiner.
Critics have hammered every art museum that has hosted "Tutankhamun." (A parallel exhibition, "Tutankhamun, the Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" - same size, same sources, same organizers - opens today at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.) But here, as elsewhere - except Dallas, where attendance fell about 40 percent short of projections - a vast audience probably will eat it up, even at $27.50 a head for general admission.
Why?
Therein lies a mystery to eclipse the unanswered questions represented by many of the objects on view.
See the above page for full details.
- Tutankhamun Still Selling Well
IndyStar.com A four-month King Tut exhibit at the Children’s Museum has had thousands of ticket orders today. In the first few hours after the museum opened ticket sales, the museum has sold more than 19,000 tickets, said Jaclyn Falkenstein, public...
- Revenue From Tutankhamun In The 1970s
ArtNet (Thomas Hoving) Thomas Hoving is author of Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game (2005) and is former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The same stories circulate each time the Golden Age exhibition moves to a new venue, but I thought it...
- Gas Tokens To Pay For Tutankhamun Tickets
Star-Telegram (Eva-Marie Ayala) This is a rather different approach to encouraging parents to whisk their children to potentially educational exhibitions. Fuel prices shouldn’t stop Tarrant County students from seeing the pharaoh in Dallas.So organizers...
- Tickets Go On Sale For Dallas King Tut Exhibit
The Earth Times Following the success of the first U.S. tour, which drew nearly 4 million visitors and broke records at each of the four museums it visited from June 2005 through September 2007, "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" will return...
- Ticket Prices And Tutankhamun
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12921152.htm An article about the financing of the Tutankhamun exhibition: "New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which hosted the Treasures of Tutankhamen in 1978 and helped organize the original tour, declined...