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Guilt becomes an inspiration for art piece featured at the Tate
Image via Wikipedia When Andy Holden was 12, he broke and stole a chunk of the Great Pyramid of Giza during a visit to Egypt with his father, who was there on business. The guilt kept creeping up until it it became so unbearable that Holden, now an sculptor, had to do something positive to raise... »
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets at Brooklyn Museum
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets at the Brooklyn Museum (November 19, 2009-October 2, 2011) features 35 artifacts in stone and wood. Some are distinct sculptural entities while others are derived from larger compositions. Many are displayed publicly for the first time. Unlike most exhibitions of antiquities that emphasize the reconstruction of damaged... »
Garden statue is really a masterpiece by a modern Egyptian sculptor
A 4 feet tall bronze statue of a woman carrying a water vessel, used as a mere back yard adornment for 4 decades in a Cleveland home, turned out to be a work of art created in Paris in 1931 by Egyptian sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar, known as the father of modern Egyptian art. The piece... »
Giacometti, The Egyptian: The Altes Museum organizes an exhibition showing the Swiss sculptor's passion for ancient Egypt
Image by joelogon via Flickr Now integrated into the sculpture halls of the Egyptian Museum’s permanent exhibition, works by Giacometti from the Sammlung der Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung in Zurich invite visitors to listen in to a dialogue between artists as they communicate with each other in a common language of forms which traverses several millennia. By... »
