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Amsterdam, Netherlands
De Nieuwe Kerk
Oman
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 18 Apr 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Dam Square, Amsterdam Amsterdam 1015 BC
Tel: +31 (0)20 638 6909 Website
Baltimore, USA
Walters Art Museum
Heroes! Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
Dates: 11 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 600 North Charles Street Baltimore 21201
Tel: +1 410 547 9000 Website
Beijing, China
The Palace Museum
Selected Steles and Stone Rubbings Dating from Han to Wei (third century BC-third century CE) from the Permanent Collections
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Far East
Address: 4 Jingshan Qianjie Beijing 100009
Tel: Website
Berlin, Germany
Bode-Museum
Childhood on the River Nile: Images of Children from Egypt in the National Museums in Berlin
Dates: 10 Jul 09 - 6 Jun 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Bodestrasse 1-3, Museumsinsel Berlin D-10178
Tel: +49 (0)30 2035 5259 Website
Boston, USA
Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston
The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC
Dates: 18 Oct 09 - 16 May 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 465 Huntington Avenue Boston 02115-5519
Tel: +1 617 267 9300 Website
Brussels, Belgium
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Delvaux and the Ancient World
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 3, rue de la Régence Brussels B-1000
Tel: +32 (0)2 508 3290 Website
Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire
The Silk Road: a Journey through Life and Death
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Curious
Far East
Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Parc du Cinquantenaire 10 Brussels B-1000
Tel: +32 (0)2 741 7200 Website
Brocade from Nanjing
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 7 Feb 10
Categories: Far East
Archaeology & Ancient art
Decorative
Address: Parc du Cinquantenaire 10 Brussels B-1000
Tel: +32 (0)2 741 7200 Website
Frankfurt, Germany
Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of World Cultures)
Being Object, Being Art: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Museum of World Cultures
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 31 Oct 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
African
Address: Amt 45G, Schaumainkai 29-37 Frankfurt D-60594
Tel: (0)69 212 359 13 Website
London, United Kingdom
British Museum
Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler
Dates: 24 Sep 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Latin American
Address: Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7323 8299 Website
A dejected ruler murdered by his own people after failing to prevent Spanish forces from conquering his once mighty empire that at its height stretched from the Pacific Ocean the Gulf of Mexico; this is the image of Moctezuma II that resonates five centuries after his demise. This show, the last in the museum’s series to explore power and empire through historical figures, investigates the less well-known period in the life of the Aztec emperor—the 18 years he reigned prior to the arrival of the conquistadors. The display tells the story of Moctezuma (reigned 1502-20) through monumental sculpture, gold and turquoise artefacts, codices, European portraits and enconchados (oil paintings with mother of pearl detail inlaid on wood panels) drawn from the museum’s collection as well as those in Mexico, the US and Europe.
“We want to reinsert Moctezuma into the Columbian world as a unique ruler in his own right—not merely as a post-colonial figure. It’s a wonderful challenge,” says Dr Colin McEwan, head of the museum’s Americas department and curator of the show, in cooperation with his Mexican colleagues Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Leonardo López Luján and Felipe Solís Olguín, who died in April 2009.
Divided into thematic sections, the show examines various aspects of Moctezuma’s life including his role as a semi-divine figure or intermediary with Aztec gods, his military prowess and his varied achievements as a ruler. The exhibition also delves into the Spanish conquest and presents an alternative version of the ruler’s death. On display are two 16th-century codices—shown together here for the first time—one of which depicts Moctezuma in chains and the other with a rope around his neck, suggesting he might not have willingly welcomed the Spanish, but rather been a captive who was later dispatched by the Hispanic invaders. “We’re showing how history is constructed and represented and how events can be read in the 21st century. We want to bring less well-known aspects of his life into Western historicity,” says McEwan.
The show presents new scholarship on the emperor including the first in-depth reconstruction of a lost portrait of Moctezuma carved into Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City. E.S.
Turquoise mosaic mask, Aztec/Mixtec, 1400-1521 AD
Los Angeles, USA
Getty Villa
The Chimaera of Arezzo
Dates: 16 Jul 09 - 8 Feb 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles 90265-5708
Tel: +1 310 230 7075 Website
Inaugurating the long-term partnership between the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Florence is the display of the fourth-century BC Etruscan masterpiece The Chimaera of Arezzo. On loan from the Florence museum, which according to Getty museum director Dr Michael Brand “houses one of the most important collections of Etruscan art in the world”, this sculpture forms the centrepiece of an exhibition exploring six centuries of representations of the mythical beast described by Homer as “a thing of immortal make…lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and breathed forth flames of fire”. Accompanying the 80cm bronze are antiquities from the museum’s permanent collection as well as loans from such institutions as the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The work was unearthed in the Tuscan town of Arezzo in the 16th-century and entered the collection of ruler and art patron Cosimo I de’Medici. This is the first time the sculpture has travelled to the US. E.S.
The Chimaera of Arezzo
Reconstructing Identity: a Statue of a God from Dresden
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 8 Feb 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 17985 Pacific Coast Highway Los Angeles 90265-5708
Tel: +1 310 230 7075 Website
Mannheim, Germany
Reiss-Engelhorn Museums
Alexander the Great
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: C5 Zeughaus 68159 Mannheim
Tel: +49 621 293-3151 Website
New York, USA
Brooklyn Museum
Tipi of the Great Plains
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 200 Eastern Parkway New York 11238-6052
Tel: +1 718 638 5000 Website
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets
Dates: 19 Nov 09 - 2 Oct 11
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 200 Eastern Parkway New York 11238-6052
Tel: +1 718 638 5000 Website
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW
The Lost World of Old Europe: the Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC
Dates: 11 Nov 09 - 25 Apr 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: New York University, 15 East 84th Street New York 10028
Tel: +1 212 992 7843 Website
The Lost World of Old Europe brings to the US for the first time more than 160 objects recovered by archaeologists from the graves, towns, and villages of Old Europe, a cycle of related cultures that achieved a precocious peak of sophistication and creativity in what is now southeastern Europe between 5000 and 4000 BC, and then mysteriously collapsed by 3500 BC.
Morgan Library & Museum
Rembrandt and His Circle
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 225 Madison Avenue New York 10016-3405
Tel: +1 212 685 0008 Website
Oslo, Norway
Etnografisk Museum
Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys Past and Present
Dates: 1 Jun 09 - 6 Apr 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Frederiusgate 2 Oslo 0164
Tel: +47 22 85 99 64 Website
Oxford, United Kingdom
Pitt Rivers Museum
John Bradford: Pioneer of Landscape Archaeology
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Post-War (1945-70)
Address: South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PP
Tel: +44 (0)1865 270927 Website
Paris, France
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
From Byzantium to Istanbul: One Port for Two Continents
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 25 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 3, avenue Général Eisenhower Paris 75008
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 13 17 17 Website
Musée du Quai Branly
Teotihuacan: City of the Gods
Dates: 6 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Latin American
Address: 37, quai Branly, portail Debilly Paris 75007
Tel: Website
Princeton, USA
Princeton University Art Museum
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 10 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Princeton 08544-1018
Tel: +1 609 258 3788 Website
San Francisco, USA
Legion of Honor
Very Postmortem: Mummies and Medicine
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 4 Jul 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Curious
Address: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Lincoln Park, 100 34th Avenue San Francisco 94121-1693
Tel: +1 415 750 3614 Website
M.H. de Young Museum
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
Dates: 27 Jun 09 - 28 Mar 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco 94118
Tel: +1 415 863 3330 Website
St Petersburg, Russia
State Hermitage Museum
Holy Faces: Greek Icons from the Velimezis Collection
Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Medieval
Address: 2, Dvortsovaya Ploshchad St Petersburg 190000
Tel: +7 812 710 90 79 Website
Following the conversion of medieval Russia to Christianity in 998, its links to Constantinople grew, with Greek architects and artists being invited to the region in its embrace of Byzantine Orthodox culture. The Velimezis Collection of Greek icons dating from the 15th to the 19th century was assembled by Emilios Velimezis (1902-46) between 1934 and 1946 and is now in the hands of the Benaki Museum, Athens, and members of the Velimezis family. This show of 42 icons and three anthivola (preliminary drawings), by painters including El Greco, Emmanuel Tzanes, Leos Moschos and Nikolas Kallergis, is in four rooms close to the Hermitage’s Byzantine galleries, highlighting the intertwined nature of Orthodox Russia and Greece. The show, curated by Yuri Pyatnitsky, senior curator of the Hermitage, is supported by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. J.H.
Strasbourg, France
Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg
10,000 Years of History: Ten Years of Archaeological Exhibitions in Alsace
Dates: 6 Nov 09 - 31 Aug 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Palais Rohan, 2, place du Château Strasbourg 67000
Tel: 03 88 52 50 00 Website
Toronto, Canada
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World
Dates: 27 Jun 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: 100 Queen’s Park Toronto M5S 2C6
Tel: +1 416 586 5549 Website
Zurich, Switzerland
Museum Rietberg
Buddha’s Paradise
Dates: 6 Sep 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Gablerstrasse 15 Zurich Ch-8002
Tel: +41 (0)44 206 31 31 Website
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