Art exhabits (long) repost from med.dance@world.std.com
Barbara Morgan
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>Tedi said:
>I'm sure some of you get the "Aramco World", but for those
>of you who don't, you might be interested in noting some of these items that
>are listed on their "Events & Exhibitions" page (especially if you happen to
>live in any of those localities).
>The Telephos Frieze of the Pergamon Altar. The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
>New York, January 16 through April 14.
>Somewhere East of Suez: Peoples and Places. Sharpe Gallery, University of
>Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, January 20 through April 7.
>The Word Made Image: Religion, Art, and Architecture in Spain and Spanish
>America, 1500-1600 (symposium). Gardner Museum, Boston, January 20.
>The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt. The Los Angeles County Museum of
>Art, through January 21.
>Indian Harvest: Rajasthani Paintings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection.
>Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, through January 21 and from
>February 15 through April 28.
>Picturing the Middle East: A Hundred Years of European Orientalism. The
>Danesh Museu, New York, through January 27.
>Current Archeology of the Ancient World. A series of talks at The
>Auditorium, Musee du Louvre, Paris (January 19, February 2, February 16 and
>March 22).
>Crosscurrents in Chinese and Islamic Ceramics. Freer Gallery of
>Art,Washington, DC, beginning February 3.
>Thundering Hooves: Five Centuries of Horse Power in the American West. The
>Children's Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 3 through May 5.
>Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum. Kimbell Art
>Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, through February 4.
>Earth 2U, Exploring Geography (traveling exhibit booked for a five-year,
>39-city tour - it's for the kids and it might be coming to a location near
>you). Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian
>Institution's "Sites" and Nissan USA.
>Teaching About the Arab World and Islam (teacher workshops). Milwaukee,
>February 10 and 14; Louisville, Kentucky, February 19; Denver, March 2.
>Sons of Ra: Images of Egyptian Royalty from the Louvre. Cleveland (Ohio)
>Museum of Art, February 14 through April 14.
>Contemporary Indian Miniatures. The Commonwealth Institute, London, through
>February 18.
>Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan. The Denver Art Museum, through
>February 25.
>Textiles of Late Antiquity. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
>through April 7.
>Embroideries of the Ottoman Empire. Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva,
>through May 12.
>Power and Gold: Jewelry from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
>Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, through May 19.
>Raiders and Traders on China's Northern Frontier. Arthur M. Sackler
>Gallery, Washington DC, through August 18.
>I offer this information to you on the hope that some of you may be able to
>make some of these wonderful exhibits and events.
>Tedi (tth...@siu.edu), Carbondale, Illinois
>(and I "hear" my coffee fresh brewed and hot calling to me from the kitchen
>- I had nothing "better" to do while waiting...)
Amaryllis Alexandrea de Lacey
Ba...@DISTANT-CARAVANS.reno.nv.us
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