by wizwerx | 2022年8月20日 | News Coverage
Concepts of spectacle and immersion have gotten a bad rap lately in the art world. Believe me, I understand. When a dazzling presentation comes at the cost of curatorial substance, it’s not only disappointing, it fails to honor the subject. The term “immersive...
by wizwerx | 2022年8月19日 | News Coverage
Among the almost 200 opulent ancient Egyptian artifacts in the new exhibition “Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs,” curator Zahi Hawass says he’s been transfixed by one sculpture: an 8-foot-tall, red granite head of Ramses II dating to the 13th century B.C....
by wizwerx | 2022年8月19日 | News Coverage
Ramses the Great was the most powerful, most celebrated pharaoh of ancient Egypt. A talented military leader, he ushered in a golden era of security and prosperity and built a never-before-seen number of monuments, temples, and colossal statues (mostly dedicated to...
by wizwerx | 2022年8月19日 | News Coverage
Thousands of years before the ’49ers descended upon San Francisco in the hopes of unearthing a fortune in the mountains of California, a living god half a world away was laid to rest in The Valley of the Kings with a cache of gold that all but the most fortunate...
by wizwerx | 2022年8月17日 | News Coverage
Grab your tickets now and start counting down the days, Jurassic World: The Exhibition will be inviting the public into a prehistoric paradise next week. Lace your boots, pull on your khaki shorts and don your safari hat, the opening of Jurassic World: The Exhibition...
by wizwerx | 2022年8月9日 | News Coverage
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For now, you’d have to be Indiana Jones to slide past the door of Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs. But as workers put the finishing touches on this magnificent exhibit, curators at San Francisco’s de Young Museum...