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EXHIBITS AND EXHIBITIONS
OF
EGYPTOMANIA
(current exhibits & lectures) (collections/permanent
exhibits) (past lectures)
1983--1990--1991--1992--1994--1998--1999-2000--2001--
2003 -- 2005--2006--2007--2008
1983
7 May - 17 July 1983
The Inspiration of Egypt: Its Influence on British Artists, Travellers
and Designers 1700-1900
Brighton Museum
Brighton
England
4 August - 17 September
Manchester City Art Gallery
Manchester
England
Catalog
published.
1990
4 February - 29 April 1990
The Sphinx and the Lotus: The Egyptian Movement in American Decorative
Arts 1865-1935
Hudson River Museum
Yonkers NY
USA
Catalog
published.
1991
(dates unknown)
El Sueno de Egipta: La Influencia del Arte Egipcio en el Arte Contemporaneo
Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo
Mexico City
Mexico
Catalog published.
1992
12 June - 24 July 1992
Egyptomania
Hillwood Art Museum
Long Island University
Brookville NY
USA
curator: Bob Brier
Catalog published.
1994
20 January 1994 - 29 January 1995
Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art 1739-1930
20 January - 18 April 1994
Musée du Louvre
Paris
France
17 June - 18 September 1994
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
16 October 1994 - 29 January 1995
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna
Austria
Catalog
published.
1998
19 May - 27 September 1998
La Publicite à l'Ègyptienne
Musée du Papier - Le Nil
Angoulême
France
curator: Denis Peaucelle
19 May - 27 September
Desseins Égyptiens
Musée de la bande dessinée et de l'image - CNBDI
Angoulême
France
curators: Jean-Pierre Mercier, Thierry Groensteen
Catalog published.
22 August - 1 November 1998
Egyptomania in Nederland
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Rotterdam
Netherlands
info: http://www.museumserver.nl/museumkrant/editie17/pag2.htm
1999-2000
(dates unknown)
Egyptomania in Greece and Rome
Virginia Museum of Art
Richmond, Virgina
USA
2001
5 March - 21 May 2001
Crazy for Egypt: Egyptomania in Europe and America
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Mount Holyoke, New Jersey
USA
2003
L'Egypte, parfums d'histoire
Musée International de la Parfumerie
Grasse
France
2005
5 March - 25 September 2005
Winckelmann und Ägypten. Die Wiederentdeckung der ägyptischen
Kunst im 18. Jahrhundert
AEgyptisches Museum
München
Germany
info: http://www.aegyptisches-museum-muenchen.de/de/d/d02_in.php
14 April 2005
student works inspired by ancient Egypt and the Near East
Département d'histoire de l'art de l'Université Concordia
Bureau des Affaires Culturelles et de l'Éducation du Consulat
Général d'Égypte
1 Place Ville-Marie
Montreal
Canada
1 June - 15 August 2005
Zandsculptuur Apeldoorn
Sand sculptures Apeldoorn: Discover Ancient Egypt
Park Berg & Bos (near the Apenheul)
J.C. Wilslaan 21
Apeldoorn
Netherlands
info: http://www.zandsculptuurapeldoorn.nl
(note: 60 scenes recreating ancient Egyptian monuments in sand)
4 June - 5 September 2005
Napoleon's La Description de l'Egypte
Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science
3rd Floor
350 South Duval St
Tallahassee, Florida
USA
info: http://www.thebrogan.org/exhibits.html
(note: exhibit of the 23 volumes, loaned from the Institute on
Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University)
12 August - ongoing
exhibit:
Egypt Through Other Eyes: the popularization of ancient Egypt
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
USA
info: (718) 638-5000
info: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/egypt-through-other-eyes
info: http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=14626
(note: more than 30 books, plates, and similar objects from the Wilbour
Library of Egyptology, some never before presented to the public, demonstrating
the Western fascination with ancient Egypt)
17 September - 27 November 2005
Egyptomania: modern fascination for ancient civilization
Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts
USA
info: http://www.worcesterart.org/Exhibitions/egyptomania.html
(note: exhibit of photographs, prints, and paintings, including
watercolors by Howard Carter, drawn from the museum's own collection.)
7 October 2005 - 26 February 2006
Europa & Ägypten. Kulturbegegnungen von den Griechen bis
zu Winckelmann
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Am Steine 1-2, D-31134
Hildesheim
Germany
info: http://www.rpmuseum.de/de/start/rpm.html
26 November 2005 - 26 February 2006
exhibit:
Egypt-Greece-Rome: resistance and contact
Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Städel Institute of Art)
info: Städelsches Kunstinstitut (Städel Institute of
Art)
Frankfurt am Main
Germany
info: http://www.staedelmuseum.de/index.php?id=475
(note: Egyptomania in ancient Greece and Rome)
2006
17 February - 5 March 2006
Echoes of Ancient Egypt
The Centre for Creativity
Cardinal Carter Library
King's University College
The University of Western Ontario
266 Epworth Avenue
London, Ontario
Canada
(Photography from Langaki (circa 1900), art from Ron Benner and Jamelie
Hassan, and selected works from several collections; contemporary art and
culture inspired by ancient Egypt. Keynote speaker was Gayle Gibson
of the Royal Ontario Museum; included sound poem by Penn Kemp)
2007
17
August - ??
exhibit:
Stencils
Boston, Massachusetts
USA
info: http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/08/16/a_journey_from_techno_to_mellow/
free and open to the public
in a project sponsored by the New England School of Art and Design at
Suffollk University, artists are stenciling works throughout Boston.
Among them: on August 17 "from 8 to 10 [P.M., Vela Phelan
will]
be at work stenciling the Egyptian god Anubis at the gates of Forest
Hill Cemetery."
8
September - October
exhibit:
Timothy Hull: The Swarm of Possible Meanings Surrounding the Ancient
Pyramids
Freight + Volume
242 West 24th St
New York, New York
USA
212-989-8700
info: http://www.freightandvolume.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.html
info: http://www.artcal.net/event/view/1/5284
until 2 December 2007
exhibit:
Aaron
Douglas: African American Modernist
Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
USA
info: http://www2.ljworld.com/events/ongoing/16946/
free and open to the public
presents 90 works, plus related material,
pertinent to this artist of the Harlem Renaissance, who drew some of
his inspiration from Egyptian forms.
14 September 2007 - 20 January 2008
exhibit:
Piranesi as Designer
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York, New York
USA
info: http://www.cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/piranesi/
some of Piranesi's designs were Egyptian-influenced.
10 October 2007 - 24 February 2008
exhibit:
Paula Modersohn-Becker und die ägyptischen
Mumienporträts
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
Bremen
Germany
info (English): http://www.paula-2007.de/index.php?idcatside=12
info (German): http://www.paula-2007.de/index.php?idcat=2
2008
3-31 May
exhibit:
One Man's Egypt
Lowewood Museum
High Street
Hoddestdon, Herts.
England
info: http://www.lowewood.com/museum/one_mans_egypt.asp
Lew Blake "has been fascinated by how the past of Egypt has been
reproduced and presented for sale and display in our commercial world.
This exhibition attempts to explore the contradiction of style between
the two, the sacred past and the consumer present."
21 March - 22 June
exhibit:
Thomas Hope: Regency Designer
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road
London
England
info: http://www.huliq.com/55013/thomas-hope-regency-designer ; http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/furniture/thomas_hope/index.html
"The exhibition will recreate the atmosphere of three rooms from the
Duchess Street house, originally built by Robert Adam. Each room had a
different character designed to appeal to all the senses. The V&A
exhibition will show objects from one of the Vase Rooms which displayed
Hope’s collection of ancient Greek and Roman vases; the Egyptian Room
which combined ancient Egyptian antiquities with modern pieces of
Egyptian inspired furniture; of Piranesi's designs were Egyptian-influenced."
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