Two Egyptian Art Exhibitions Coming to Brooklyn Museum
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Two Egyptian Art Exhibitions Coming to Brooklyn Museum


Suite101 (Stan Parchin)

The Brooklyn Museum turns to its antiquities collection for two cost-saving special exhibitions. Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments & Amulets (November 2009-October 2011) and To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt (February 12-May 2, 2010) feature works drawn exclusively from the museum's fine holdings.






- Exhibition: To Live Forever
Arts Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Ancient Egyptian funerary practices and religious beliefs about death and the afterlife are vividly described by 107 pieces of jewelry, sarcophagi (coffins), statuary and vessels in To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife...

- Exhibition: The Mummy Chamber In New York, Summer 2010
http://artmuseumjournal.com/mummy_chamber.aspx The Mummy Chamber, a long-term installation of more than 170 artifacts that explores the ancient Egyptians' complex funerary rituals and beliefs associated with mummification, opens at the Brooklyn Museum...

- Egyptian Art Exhibitions 2009
Suite101 (Stan Parchin) Stan is continuing to publish some excellent things on the Suite101 website. This time he does a review of 11 museum exhibitions coming up in 2009. See the above page for details of each of the exhibitions. The art and archaeology...

- Coming Exhibits To Move Beyond The Traditional
The Columbus Dispatch From quilts to Chihuly glass, the next two years of exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art will be packed with fare that goes beyond traditional paintings and sculptures. A schedule extending through March 2010 has been crafted...

- Exhibition: To Live Forever, At Indianapolis
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) "To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum" is a special exhibition that explains the ancient civilization's rites of mummification. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices and religious beliefs about death...



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