June 5th, 2009 
Hui 
From Egyptology News. Every two decades also, the Egypt government tours their Tut collection, and every time they claim that it would be the last time since traveling abroad cast potential harm to the antiquities. Early in the organization, the tour was refused by both Metropolitan Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum because both refused [...]
May 14th, 2009 Hui 
It was crowded as usual when I visited Metropolitan Museum of Art last Saturday. At one point, the gallery of Amarna Art had two guided tours at the same time. I walked to the galleries of late period instead. Most of the visitors would get tired by the time they reach there if they have [...]
Posted in Artist, Egyptian Art, Museum 
Tags: Jean-François Millet, Metropolitan Museum of Art 
No Comments » February 12th, 2009 Brownie 
Then came the touchy question? Can blacks rightly claim the Egyptian cultural heritage?
Dr. Zahi Hawass commented that “Egyptians are not Arabs and are not Africans despite the fact that Egypt is in Africa”. [Read more...]
January 30th, 2009 Hui 
But if we don’t show those things, and we don’t interpret them and we don’t use them to educate people, what are they surrounded by? Plastic and bad design and things that have no aesthetic quality at all. [Read more...]
January 16th, 2009 Lin 
There are details of naturalistic depiction. Almost like a gold-finger touch, they imbue the statue with personalities: just enough to distinguish the person , but not enough to resolve the mystery. It requires one to look, to imagine, to speculate, even to attempt to communicate.[...]
January 15th, 2009 Hui 
America is defined by what comes to be American, not by what has been American. There is no place better than New York to understand why Americans regard Cultural Patrimony as vague and odd. Here races, languages, cultures, money, and talent confluence and culminate in one of the finest cities in the world. And the [...]
January 10th, 2009 Lin 
It looks ridiculous that Mesopotamian tried so hard to pursue something which can only be used after life, but aren’t we human beings all peculiar in one way or another? Eric in his blog “The Pleasures of Collecting” says “the fault lies in the vicissitudes of existence and brevities of life”, probably those foreign wives of Pharaohs would agree with it too. [...]
Posted in Egyptian Art, Museum Tags: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Narmer Pallete, Wilbour Plague No Comments » January 4th, 2009 Hui 
Without getting rid of colored glass, we may be fooled again in future. We must not!The Victorial nicety and Eclecticism are appropriate for the final resting places, yet unearthing the truth is all we sought for in scientific and museological study. [...]
January 4th, 2009 Hui 
Overall, this is a great book with a lot of new findings updated by recent scholar research. The writing is fluent, concise and well organized. The pictures of objects from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum make the reading more rewarding. It can be used as a catalog for the museum visitors who have the access to the exhibition; but more importantly it is a necessary addition to anyone who wants in-depth knowledge of Egyptian funeral belief and practices. [...]
December 31st, 2008 Hui 
There was a moment of silence when my friend asked me why Egyptian art? Why a people 5,000 years ago whose language obsolete? Nothing is more striking than looking at this picture of head of Ramsess II lying on the rubbles. It is sad, mysterious, and marvelous despite of the damage. If we obliterate the [...]
