Word: artes
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...that has changed, though, as a spectacular exhibition opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City this week makes clear. "Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" is the first major show devoted to the Old Kingdom. It features some 250 objects from 32 institutions in 10 countries--including exquisite sculptures, relief paintings, vessels, furniture and jewelry--created for use in the temples and royal tombs surrounding Egypt's most familiar monuments...
...during the Old Kingdom that Egypt came of age as a civilization. It was also, says Dorothea Arnold, curator in charge of the Met's Egyptian department, the time when art began to flourish. "It was invented and stylized then," she says, "and it stayed that way for 2,000 to 3,000 years. This was a time when the human figure was at the center of art. When people asked, 'Who are we? What is death?' These people came to grips with death by cherishing life, by transforming human figures into stone in order to preserve them forever...
...biggest news of the year involves the very ground the Crimson plays on. During the off-season, Harvard constructed Jordan Field, a $3.3 million, state-of-the-art, synthetic-turf field to replace the natural grass surface at Cumnock Field...
Fogg Receives Art Gift Worth $20 Million...
...longtime supporters of the Fogg Museum, George S. Abrams '54 and his wife Maida Abrams donated a $20 million art collection to the University, museum officials announced this week...