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East-West Collector's Vision
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International Herald Tribune
02-12-2000
At distant intervals, great collectors with a highly personal perception of art have the means through fortune and circumstance to build up a museum that others only dream up. Then, as they leave this world, the museum vanishes, broken up between heirs or institutions benefiting from their largesse. The extraordinary thing about the works collected by the oil millionaire Calouste Gulbenkian over more than half a century is that th...
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Everlasting beauty of Egyptian creation.(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
The Washington Times
; NEW YORK - For those who consider Egyptian art to be only monumental pyramids and inscrutable sphinxes, think again. Much has clouded our view of this once mighty civilization. Egyptomania, or the craze for things Egyptian, did not help further understanding of the genius of the art. Now, three
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(book review)
Antiquity
; JAROMIR MALEK. Egyptian art. 448 pages, colour photographs. 1999. London: Phaidon; 0-7148-3627-3 paperback 14.95 [pounds sterling], US$24.95, Can$35, Aus$39.95. What is art? We might include every human intervention in the material world, or one segment in a spectrum from least to most
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EGYPTIAN ART COMES TO BOISE; Boise Art Museum features three shows focusing on Egypt
Boise Weekly
; One of the ultimate objectives of the ancient Egyptians was to live for eternity to achieve the afterlife to be remembered as eternally young and strong. This they accomplished. Our cultural identity is littered with artifacts of the ancient Egyptians--from the most creative to the most clich.
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(book reviews)
Antiquity
; The design and rendition of early images is also the subject of GAY ROBINS' Proportion and style in ancient Egyptian art (x+283 pages, 208 figures, 19 plates. 1994. London: Thames & Hudson; ISBN 0-500-23680-1 hardback [pounds]24). This will be an important contribution to the analysis of
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EGYPT FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES
The Boston Globe
; NEW YORK - On the wall of one of the galleries housing the splendid show "Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" is a scale drawing that compares the monuments of the Giza Plateau with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where "Pyramids" is currently ensconced. The Met's Fifth Avenue facade, at 1,000
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Sun shines brightly on MFA's ambitious 'Pharaoh' exhibit.
The Boston Herald
; To Rita Freed, the fractured statues lay in the dim basement of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo like massive jigsaw puzzles begging to be reassembled. The Egyptian art curator for the Museum of Fine Arts was on one of several trips to Cairo to prepare for the Pharoahs of the Sun exhibit, when she saw
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Freeing the pharaohs' glory
International Herald Tribune
; Holland Cotter International Herald Tribune 02-07-2004 The undying appeal of ancient Egyptian art for modern audiences may be a mystery to some of us. But there's no mystery at all as to why the Metropolitan Museum has engineered a minor hullabaloo around the opening of a revamped section of its
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EGYPTIAN ART EXPERT TO SPEAK.(PEOPLE & PLACES)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; Egypt and the Old Testament is the title of a lecture to be given by an expert on Egyptian art on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at UNCG. Dr. Robert Bianchi, former curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum, will speak at 8 p.m. in room 103 of the Anne and Benjamin Cone Building. His talk is free and
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Egypt comes to Baltimore
Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; Treasures from one of the world's most important collections of artwork bring the splendor of ancient Egypt alive at the Walters Gallery in Baltimore. "Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art From the British Museum" features 144 stunning works revealing the beauty and the astounding variety of
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Egyptian Art Association to include non-Egyptian artists
Al Bawaba
; The Egyptian Art Association agreed during their last meeting to include the Syrian actor Jamal Suleiman, Lebanese actor Nour and Tunisian actress Hind Sabri as members of the association. More names will be added to the list. He of the association, Ashraf Zaki, announced that the association is
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