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AnimeNation Anime News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The British Museum yesterday opened its “Manga: Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure” exhibit. The exhibit primarily consists of an original “life size” (wall size) manga story by artist Hoshino Yukinobu depicting his globe-trotting folklore & history professor Munakata character visiting the British Museum. The exhibit also offers a selection of sample manga...
The Modern Historian (Free subscription) | yesterday
On 8th November 1793, as the Reign of Terror began in Revolutionary France the Palais du Louvre (Louvre Palace) first opened in its new role housing a national museum. The palace started life as a twelfth-century fortress, which successive generations of French monarchs altered and expanded. In the mid-eighteenth-century, King Louis XV accepted a proposal to use part of the palace as a gallery in which...
Bryn's so called life (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
So a couple of weeks ago my Mum and my stepfather John came down to stay for the weekend. I also have my cousin Scott staying with us at the moment as he is doing an elective attachment with the HEMS team at the Royal London. Above is a pic that I quite like that I took near the festival hall.So while in town we headed along to the Sir John Soane's Museum on Lincoln's inn fields (below). I have
All Things Considered (Free subscription) | yesterday
I first came across Arthur Probsthain, Oriental & African bookseller, in 1986. I was in London to visit the British Museum for the first time, and I was sixteen years old. It was a rainy day - somehow London always seems more Londony when it rains - and my heart gave a little flutter when I first spotted the bookshop's hanging sign. I was obsessed with Japanese prints, but no local bookstores stocked...
Electronic Cerebrectomy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eau De Cobra This episode opens with a mummy robbing an Ancient Egyptian tablet from the British Museum. I don't think there's any more I could add to that, really. I assume the guy inside the wrappings is Firefly, because he then shows up at an Antarctic base and orders a couple of techs to take him to something they've found called the Jackal's Bane root. One of the techs steps on a silent alarm...
Londonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Clockwise from top left: Duck house at Parliament , fireworks at BT Tower , walrus penis bone , "> shenanigans on Upper Street The week's most popular posts, and a round-up of what's happening around London In the news As the BT Tower was lit up to mark 1,000 days until the Olympics, it was announced that the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower would reopen The Tokyo-style (or maybe...
Ellen Loudon (Free subscription) | yesterday
He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2.4 Each Wednesday we share morning prayer at St John Chrysostom Church together at 10am. Those who are able to get there take it in turns to share a...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Heritage Key (Sean Williams) A summary of some of the main themes of the Colloquium. This year's Egyptological Colloquium, held in the British Museum's fantastic BP Lecture Theatre, was roundly applauded as a great success. No fewer than eighteen gifted minds took to the lectern, as a glut of opinions, theories, excavations and discoveries were explored to a large audience's enthralment. Some of the...
fictions (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Harker Volume 1: The Book Of Solomon Plot, story, script – Roger Gibson. Plot, art – Vincent Danks Ariel Press. Anyone reading the blog over the past 9 months or so will have surely picked up on my great love of Harker. I’ve championed it since issue 1 and every month have delivered positive review after positive review. So with this first collection I’m hardly likely to have...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Trotsky by Robert Service (Macmillan, £25)
Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Zahi Hawass’s requests for the return of the bust of Nefertiti by Germany has generated largej amounts of publicity, encouraging people to enter into discussion on why the artefacts is in Germany & whether it should be returned to Egypt. From: Christian Science Monitor Germany: Time for Egypt’s Nefertiti bust to go home? A German museum has a bust [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
In an unusual turn of events, New York’s Metropolitan Museum purchased a four thousand year old relief from a collector with the sole intention of returning it to Egypt. It is unclear from this article whether there was any other motive present that led to this peculiar transaction. From: Press TV (Iran) MET agrees to return Pharoanic relic [...]
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From chic point to space exodusThe Institut du monde arabe's current show of work by 19 Palestinian artists challenges preconceptions of contemporary Palestinian art, writes David Tresilian in Paris Chic Point, Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), and Exodus (2008) Chic Point, Fashion for Israeli Checkpoints (2003), and Exodus (2008)Intended, according to the show's curator, to suggest the components...
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Peter Brooks Dominique Vivant Denon, the subject of my piece in the November 19, 2009 issue of the New York Review of Books , is known above all as the first Director of the Louvre—which, under his guidance, became the first encyclopedic public museum. But he was also an artist prized for his travel sketches and engravings. Since I could only touch on this aspect of his career briefly in my...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ruth Duckworth was one of the most innovative and influential postwar potters in Britain, before transforming herself in America from a ground-breaking studio potter to an important sculptor in clay.
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eprnetwork | 10/02/2009
Superbreak, the short break specialist, has created a new range of packages that will allow customers take in the latest exhibition at the British Museum. At the end of September, a major exhibition opened at the British Museum and through Superbreak's services, customers can take care of all their holiday needs - flights, London hotels and exhibition entrance - through one website. This new British
saifversion | 10/02/2009
Britain's Tate Modern has temporarily closed an exhibition that includes a nude image of a 10-year-old Brooke Shields as it was controversial piece of art based on a 1975 nude photograph of actress Brook Shields and it breaches the U.K.'s obscenity laws. The piece shows a 10-year-old Brooke Shields, nude, oiled, and heavily made-up, standing in a bathtub and looking directly at the camera. Read more...
wellbeingnewseditor | 07/25/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Bedfordshire > Edited by Jane Hill: This summer, Wardown Park Museum, Old Bedford Road, Luton will host the British Museum’s touring exhibition called ‘Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana’. Wardown Park Museum, in collaboration with the Luton Ghana Society, will hold a traditional African opening procession, with talking drums, to celebrate the arrival of the...
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