Egypt
- Dorothea Arnold To Become Curator Emeritus
Art Daily Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that distinguished curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will retire on June 30, following 21 years as head of the Department of Egyptian Art,...
- Exhibition: Late Pharaonic Art
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Crépuscule des pharaons, chefs d'oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, until 23 July 2012. Following the end of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom in around 1000 BCE, Egypt...
- 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: 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...
- 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
The Roots of Art in Ancient Egypt
Daily Telegraph (Souren Melekian)
How art begins is one of mankind’s greatest enigmas to which an answer has yet to be found.
If there is any hope of discovering the process out of which it emerges, ancient Egypt might be the place that will yield some clues.
The admirable show, “Dawn of Egyptian Art,” put together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Diana Craig Patch, reveals a world of seething artistic creation headed in multiple directions. Much of it bears no recognizable connection to the statuary and objects from Egypt under its historic dynasties.
The most startling revelation is the simultaneous existence by the end of the fourth millennium B.C. of pure abstraction, highly stylized figuration and representational art close to nature.
All three trends are occasionally observed side by side on a single object.
A large earthenware vessel from Naqada, a site north of Luxor in Upper Egypt, is thus painted with some abstract motifs above a group of simplified human figures. Around and below them, desert goats are accurately rendered with their characteristic twisted horns. The vessel was created around 3300-3200 B.C.
During the centuries that preceded it, Egyptian artists had been exploring radically different avenues.
- Dorothea Arnold To Become Curator Emeritus
Art Daily Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that distinguished curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will retire on June 30, following 21 years as head of the Department of Egyptian Art,...
- Exhibition: Late Pharaonic Art
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Crépuscule des pharaons, chefs d'oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, until 23 July 2012. Following the end of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom in around 1000 BCE, Egypt...
- 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: 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...
- 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...