Egypt
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- Egyptomania - Ancient Egypt Film Site
The Ancient Egypt Film Site I rather like the old black and white Mummy films. Welcome to the Ancient Egypt Film Site! This site offers an elaborate overview of motion pictures and tv movies that prominently feature Egyptology and ancient Egypt, its monuments...
- The Louvre Takes Its Shows On The Road
International Herald Tribune (Dana Micucci) As growing numbers of art galleries and art fairs in Paris bid to restore the city's former luster as a center of international art, the Louvre Museum is also expanding its global reach, sending out expeditionary...
- Exhibition: The Louvre In Atlanta
Louvre Atlanta Home Page Be warned - as soon as you click on the above hyperlink, it launches a video interview accompanied by background music. I was still half asleep when I clicked on it, and I nearly jumped out of my skin. The website is the home...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Wrapping Cloth
http://english.people.com.cn/200706/11/eng20070611_382923.html A special exhibition of Pharaoh of Egypt Tutankhamen's treasures opened Sunday evening at the Exhibition Hall of the Egyptian Museum in down town Cairo. The exhibition, which displays...
- Review: Egypt Untold
http://tinyurl.com/9wusx (Hollywood Reporter) Review of the first in a three part series about ancient Egypt and its explorers, showing on the Discovery Channel in the US: "The first in a trilogy of films on Egypt (Secrets of the Rosetta Stone and Rameses:...
Egypt
William Kentridge at the Louvre
Art Daily
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Scheduled to coincide with the monographic retrospective devoted to the artist at the Jeu de Paume, drawings by William Kentridge will be presented in the Salle d’Actualité of the Department of Graphic Arts, alongside a selection of drawings from the Louvre’s collections. Drawings were made for a series of films - conceived especially for the museum - on view in room 26 of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities. Original music for the films was composed by Philip Miller.
Ancient Egypt is a theme that first appeared in Kentridge’s work in 2004, in preparation for his staging of Mozart’s comic opera, The Magic Flute. His fanciful conception is illuminated by projections of the artist’s own animated black-and-white films. Kentridge’s focus moves successively from exotic landscapes on the banks of the Nile to temple ruins and obelisks. The figure of the falcon deity Horus stands in for the artist, appearing and then disappearing, under the magical sway of the draftsman’s art. This production had its first premiere in Brussels in 2005. The invitation extended by the Louvre provides an opportunity for the artist to re-explore the world of ancient Egypt, but also to delve into the Napoleonic campaigns of the late eighteenth century.
- Egyptomania - Ancient Egypt Film Site
The Ancient Egypt Film Site I rather like the old black and white Mummy films. Welcome to the Ancient Egypt Film Site! This site offers an elaborate overview of motion pictures and tv movies that prominently feature Egyptology and ancient Egypt, its monuments...
- The Louvre Takes Its Shows On The Road
International Herald Tribune (Dana Micucci) As growing numbers of art galleries and art fairs in Paris bid to restore the city's former luster as a center of international art, the Louvre Museum is also expanding its global reach, sending out expeditionary...
- Exhibition: The Louvre In Atlanta
Louvre Atlanta Home Page Be warned - as soon as you click on the above hyperlink, it launches a video interview accompanied by background music. I was still half asleep when I clicked on it, and I nearly jumped out of my skin. The website is the home...
- Exhibition: Tutankhamun Wrapping Cloth
http://english.people.com.cn/200706/11/eng20070611_382923.html A special exhibition of Pharaoh of Egypt Tutankhamen's treasures opened Sunday evening at the Exhibition Hall of the Egyptian Museum in down town Cairo. The exhibition, which displays...
- Review: Egypt Untold
http://tinyurl.com/9wusx (Hollywood Reporter) Review of the first in a three part series about ancient Egypt and its explorers, showing on the Discovery Channel in the US: "The first in a trilogy of films on Egypt (Secrets of the Rosetta Stone and Rameses:...