“The shadow of Osama bin Laden fell across the start of the Edinburgh Fringe festival yesterday as a new show, ‘Jihad: The Musical,’ publicized as ‘a madcap gallop through the wacky world of international terrorism,’ prompted an online protest to Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain….”
Tag: 08.06.07
With CT Scanner, Unraveling The Mystery Of Demetrios
“As Demetrios, a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy belonging to the Brooklyn Museum, lay on the table of the ’64-slice’ CT scanner, a cluster of art curators, conservators and medical specialists looked on, riveted by the macabre spectacle. While mummies have been subjected to CT scans for more than two decades, it was a first for the museum…. The goal was to gain insights into who Demetrios was, how he died and what his mummified remains might tell them about Egyptian funerary practices.”
The Seductive Bilbao Model
Guggenheim director Thomas Krens says the rest of the world still wants their own. “In last three years, more than 130 cities have made an initially inquiry into doing something like Bilbao. We are more or less in this business. But 95 percent of inquiries don’t have any substance or they are not in the position to make financial or capital investments for one of top museums in world in terms of exhibition programming and among the best expertise in terms of international development.”