Articles in Antiquities
Penn Museum opens MAYA 2012. Lords of Time
The Penn Museum in Philadelphia Explores Origins of 2012 End of World Predictions with a Major New Exhibition MAYA 2012: Lords of Time The Penn Museum confronts the current fascination with the year 2012, comparing predictions of a world-transforming apocalypse with their supposed origins in the ancient Maya civilization. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Instituto Hondureño de Antropologia e Historia of the Republic of Honduras, on view May 5 through January 13, 2013. MAYA ... Read More
Penn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art Announce Loan Agreement
When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian section curator made one special request—for a temporary “exchange of prisoners.” Door socket, Archaic Temple, Hierakonpolis, 3000-2675 BCE (object #3959), photo: Penn Museum.Metropolitan Museum’s curator of the exhibition and University of Pennsylvania alumna Diana Craig ... Read More
Brooklyn Museum Acquires Shell Inlaid Mexican Folding Screen
An extremely rare mother-of-pearl-inlaid Mexican folding screen, commissioned about 1700 by the viceroy of New Spain has been purchased by the Brooklyn Museum from Salvart Limited in London.Circle of the González Family (Mexican, late 17th to early 18th century), Folding Screen with the Siege of Belgrade (front), ca. 1697-1701. Tempera and resin on wood, shell inlay (enconchado), 90 1/2 x 108 5/8 in. (229.9 x 275.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Lilla Brown in memory of her husband John W. ... Read More
Ashmolean Museum Receives Donation of Important Textile From The Prophet Muhammad’s Tomb from Professor Nasser D. Khalili
Professor Nasser D. Khalili has presented the Ashmolean with an exceptional embroidered sitarah (curtain) made for the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina. The textile will go on permanent display in the Ashmolean’s Islamic Middle East Gallery from 1 May 2012. Comparable examples from the Khalili Collection were featured recently in the British Museum’s acclaimed exhibition Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam. Sitarah made for the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina Egypt . Silk with ... Read More
Discovery Times Square presents Terracotta Warriors exhibition
Discovery Times Square presents Terracotta Warriors. Defenders of China’s First Emperor, an exhibition on view , featuring nine of the estimated 8,000 figures entombed at Xian in central China. The Terracotta Army or the “Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses”, is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in ... Read More
Frick Collection opens Antico. The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
The Frick Collection presents Antico. The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes, the first monographic exhibition in the United States devoted to the Italian sculptor and goldsmith on view from May 1, 2012 through July 29, 2012. Pier Jacopo Alari de Bonacolsi, called Antico (c. 1460–1528), Apollo Belvedere, c. 1490, copper with partial fire gilding and silvering; base of bronze, 16 1/4 inches without base, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico ... Read More
National Maritime Museum opens Royal River. Power, Pageantry and the Thames exhibition
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich presents Royal River. Power, Pageantry and the Thames, an exhibition on view 27 April–9 September 2012.This spectacular exhibition, a landmark heritage event of the year, brings together nearly 400 beautiful, fascinating and often unique objects, including one of the largest-ever loans of Royal Collection objects to any museum. Created to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and guest-curated by historian David Starkey, Royal River ... Read More
Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle gets new home at the National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich announced that thanks to the generosity of many individuals, the fundraising appeal to buy Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s sculpture Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle for the National Maritime Museum and ensure it remains on permanent display has been a success.Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Art Fund he campaign was launched by the Art Fund and the National Maritime Museum at the end of 2011 and successfully raised £362,500 to enable the National Maritime ... Read More
Her Majesty The Queen Reopens Cutty Sark
On Wednesday 25 April, Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness, The Duke of Edinburgh, officially re-opened Cutty Sark; the world’s last surviving tea clipper and one of Britain’s greatest maritime treasures, following an extensive conservation project, with major support totalling £25 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The ship is now open to visitors for the first time since 2006. Lord Sterling, Chairman of Royal Museums Greenwich and the Cutty Sark Trust, ... Read More
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announces Himalayan Pilgrimage. Journey to the Land of Snows
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Himalayan Pilgrimage. Journey to the Land of Snows, on view June 16, 2010 – June 30, 2013. Unidentified artist, Tibet: Shakyamuni Buddha, 14th century; gilt bronze; 56 in. high; on long-term loan from a private collection. Reaching across several centuries and over the highest mountains in the world, Buddhism spread from India through the narrow corridors of Central Asia into Tibet, where it has remained the primary ethical and ... Read More
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