Troy. Myth and Reality
British Museum – 2019-2020
An Enduring Myth from Antiquity to Today
Curators: Alexandra Villing, Victoria Donnellan, and Lesley Fitton.
Date: 21 November 2019 – 8 March 2020
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Trojan War legend was captivating not only in antiquity, but has persevered throughout history to the present day. What inspired the many appropriations of the myth is explored in this show, which features art from ancient to contemporary. Archaeological evidence for the city of Troy is presented as a real-life pendant to the mythical afterlife of the famous city and its war.
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Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi
Pergamon Museum extension - 2018-ongoing
The Life of an Ancient City in the Round
Curators: Studio asisi
Date: 17 November 2018 – ongoing
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Inside the huge cylindrical tower at the center of this museum, artist Yadegar Asisi constructed a photorealistic picture that surrounds the viewer entirely and stretches several stories high. Based on a similar piece he made in 2012, the picture shows a stylized vision of life in the Greco-Roman city of Pergamon (modern Bergama, Turkey) during a festival held for the visiting Roman emperor Hadrian. The surrounding rooms of the museum contain sculpture and other artifacts from Pergamon, shown in Asisi’s spectacular staging with colorful lighting and accent walls.
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Pergamon Museum
Ancient Architecture Indoors
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The most internationally visited German museum is a mainstay of Berlin sightseeing with its three monumental architectural reconstructions from Babylon, Greece, and Rome. It houses the Museum of Islamic Art and the Museum of the Near East as well as part of the Greek and Roman antiquities collection.
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MoMA
Modern Art Masterpieces in New York
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With two main buildings—The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and MoMA PS1 in Queens—The Museum of Modern Art is one of New York City’s most frequented museums and a top address in the world for modern and contemporary art. Its collection comprises fine art genres as well as performance, design, architecture, and technology.
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Visiting Exhibitions Online
Armchair travelers rejoice! More and more museums are putting not only their collections online, but even actual exhibitions. Online collections and online exhibitions have some points in common, but also some crucial differences. Both can allow the visitor to zoom in on a high-resolution photo of an object for a closer look. And both resources offer at least some information about the objects. But an online exhibition does more. It highlights a few objects in the context of a certain theme, and thus offers a more cohesive look into a moment in history through the objects. Placing the objects into a frame like this – associating them with other objects and describing them in focused texts – is a great way to tell a compelling story. What is more, online exhibitions can allow the visitor to move through a virtual space in line with their own interests. And sometimes they connect with exhibitions in the physical world – a chance to see some of the objects in person.
Here are some fabulous online exhibitions – just a click away!
Bauhaus: Building the New Artist – The Getty Research Institute https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/bauhaus/new_artist/
Rembrandt in Southern California – Hammer Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, Norton Simon Museum, Timken Museum of Art https://rembrandtinsocal.org/virtual-exhibition/
Vermeer, Kawakubo, Coco Chanel and 24 more exhibitions by The Met Museum and Google Arts & Culture https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art
Virtual tour of the permanent collection – Bode-Museum http://bode360.smb.museum
O Sentimental Machine – Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung https://kentridge.liebieghaus.de/en/william-kentridge-o-sentimental-machine
Louvre Museum
Art and History in the Heart of Paris
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In the heart of Paris, the prodigious Louvre Palace was transformed into a museum during the French Revolution. In addition to its rich history, it is one of the world’s largest art museums, with collections extending from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Glass pyramids added to the entrance in modern times have become the museum’s architectural hallmark.
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