Archaeologists found the burial chamber in the necropolis at Dahshur, about 20 miles south of the capital. The tomb evidently holds a daughter of the 13th Dynasty pharaoh Ameny Qemau, who rules roughly 3,800 years ago.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.11.17
Next Week’s Bellwether Auctions: Guarantees, Investor Pleas, Uncertainties
Ahead of next week’s major Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions, both Sotheby’s and Christie’s are assuring possibly skittish buyers that there are “signs of strengthening” in the market … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-05-11
Catching Up With You
From time to time, Rifftides asks readers to send information about the music they turn on, and vice versa. It has been more than five years since we canvassed you about what you’re hearing. It’s time. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-05-11
Cannes Film Festival Changes Competition Rules (And They’re Looking At You, Netflix)
“Facing pressure from French theater owners upset that Netflix films would go straight to streaming, the Cannes Film Festival said Wednesday that it would change its rules to require all future competition films to commit to distribution in French movie theaters.”
How P.T. Barnum Helped Support – Save, Even – The Nascent Animal-Rights Movement
The showman ultimately became a good friend and supporter of his one-time adversary, the founder of the ASPCA – and Barnum taught him some crucial points of public relations, without which the movement might have died.
Some Of The Coolest, Most Interesting Stuff In Medieval Manuscripts Is Off In The Margins
Humans, animals, human-animal hybrids, disembodied limbs and other parts, monkeys playing bagpipes, rabbits in a funeral procession, naked bishops – the surprises are nearly endless. What’s more, says a scholar from the University of Glasgow, these drawings, doodles, and offhand notes can tell us a surprising amount about the people who wrote and read these volumes.
The Stuff That Keeps Museum Lawyers Awake At Night
Tax law, public art commissions, guns and people shooting them, and so on. Martha Lufkin gives an overview of the half-dozen biggest issues covered at a convention in Dallas for museum professionals sponsored by the American Law Institute and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Story Of Flora Mayo, Giacometti’s First Mistress
An attractive young department-store heiress from Denver, Flora divorced the painfully conventional husband she had been pressured to marry at 19 and took off to study art in Paris, where she met and fell in love with the sculptor. If only the story had ended there.
Founder-Director Of Silicon Valley’s Flagship Theater Company To Step Down After 50 Years
“[Robert] Kelley built TheatreWorks from a single scrappy youth theater production, Popcorn, to a community theater, then to a semiprofessional company, then to a major regional theater with an $8 million budget, 40 full-time staff members and 8,000 subscribers.”
A Contemporary Art Show For Dogs, And It’s Called –
Yes, we’re afraid so: Dogumenta. The idea comes from former Washington Post art critic Jessica Dawson, whose Yorkie/Maltese mix Rocky (pictured) accompanies her on all her gallery visits in Chelsea.
Producers Win Lawsuit Over Broadway’s ‘Rebecca’ Fiasco, But They Don’t Get Much In Damages
It wasn’t exactly an insult from the jury of the one-dollar-in-damages type, but after a strange trial about an even stranger case of fraud, the plaintiffs were awarded less than 1% of the amount they sought.