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The Museum is currently displaying an egungun costume from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. The costume is used during the annual or biennial egungun ceremony and during funeral rites. The costume is believed to be inhabited by a spirit during the masquerade performance and the wearer may mediate between the world of the living and dead in judicial and tribal matters. The costume is richly decorated and its appearance displays the wealth and status of the family who commissioned the costume.
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A special exhibition titled Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum will bring 85 objects from Egyptian history to the North Carolina Museum of Art. The works in stone, wood, precious metals, and papyrus will illuminate the Egyptian view of life, death, and the afterlife. The exhibition will be split into four sections which focus on the influence of the pharaoh or king, objects of artists and nobles, statures of Egyptians, and objects found in Egyptian tombs.
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The Museum recently acquired the false door from the tomb of the Egyptian Ni-ankh-Snefru, known as Fefi. Fefi was a lector priest, Overseer of the Two Cool Rooms of the Great House, Overseer of the Pyramid Complex Menefer-Pepy, and a courtier of the royal house. The false door was a painting or sculpted relief representing a door that served as a passageway for the ka(soul) of the deceased to travel freely between the tomb and the afterlife. A description of the door, Fefi, and ancient Egyptian burial practices is detailed.
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The Egyptian collection at the Museum was recently reorganized and updated after over 20 years on display. This reinstallation has allowed for updated educational material to be produced, a rearrangement of the objects into a thematic display, and for new items to be added to the display. The gallery’s reorganized display cases now introduce three important themes: The Afterlife and Funerary Practices, Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, and Artisan Craft and Technology.
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The Prudhoe Lion, its symbolism, and its creation are detailed. The Prudhoe Lion was commissioned by Pharaoh Amenhotep III to decorate the processional avenue of his jubilee temple at Soleb, downstream from the Third Cataract in Upper Nubia, Sudan. The lion and several other monumental sculptures from Egypt are currently on display as part of a new exhibition on loan from the British Museum. The Prudhoe Lion, a statue of King Tutankhamun, and a statue of Amenhotep III all have the history of their creation, their importance, and their acquisition described.
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A new exhibit by the Museum presents 23 large-scale photographs by a diverse group of contemporary photographs who are expanding the size and pushing the boundaries of photography. The photographs include portraits, landscapes, cityscapes, and fabricated worlds and all are unusually large in size. The exhibition addresses the themes of personal identity, fantastic narratives, environmental issues, the changing landscape of cities, systems of power, the passage of time, and images of contemporary life.
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29736
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The BIG Picture is a new photography exhibition that showcases work on loan from Allen G. Thomas, Jr., Dr. Carlos Garcia-Velez, and the Museum’s expanding photography collection. Previewing the collection, the work of photographers Lorna Simpson, North Carolina’s elin o’Hara slavick, Anthony Goicolea, and Chris Jordan are featured. Their work looks at the role personal and cultural identity plays in our everyday lives. The style, composition, and criticism of 6 works from the 4 artists are detailed.
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The removal of a painting for conservation has opened the opportunity for 13 Dutch Kabinet paintings from the 17th century to be displayed. These small, finely crafted paintings would have displayed in the Dutch home in the 17thcentury. The collection includes still-lifes, history scenes, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life and are among the most important treasures at the Museum.
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Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism presents a panorama of progressive landscaped painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition features 40 paintings from the Brooklyn Museum in New York and includes major works by leading French artists such as Charles Daubigny, Gustave Courbet, and Monet. Also included are talented American impressionists, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and Theodore Robinson. The history of the impressionistic movement, a description of the style, and criticism of the artists and the work is detailed in a preview of the exhibition.
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The newest addition to the North Carolina Museum of Art’s collection of outdoor art is a functional piece of art. The Lowe’s Park Pavilion was designed by Mike Cidndric and Vincent Petrarca of Raleigh to be a work of art but also to be used, experienced, walked through, touched, and as a shelter. This sculptural pavilion offers Park visitors a beautiful sheltered place to stop, rest, and reflect. The appearance of the shelter changes with the time of day and light reflected off of it and it will be used by staff as a place for the outdoor teaching of art.
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The Museum’s newest affiliate members group, the Friends of Photography, funded the recent acquisition of five new photographs for the Museum’s permanent collection. The new works include two photographs by Seydou Keita of Bamako, Mali and three by Deborah Luster or New Orleans. Four of the photographs are pictured and the artists and their work is detailed.
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A preview for the Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism exhibit details why landscapes were so popular with impressionist painters during the 19th and 20th centuries. As people began to move to major cities with industrialization, people often found themselves cut off from nature and traditional ways of life. As a result, these paintings provided a comfort, some solace, and a moment’s fantasy for viewers where they could imagine such beautiful, peaceful places. Several paintings are pictured as examples and the scope of the exhibition is previewed.
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In 2003, the North Carolina Museum of Art, in recognition of the importance of photography in contemporary art and of the medium's strength among North Carolina's photographers, created a new collection. The collection now has 105 works by ten photographers who live and work in the state. The works cover a variety of subject matter, including landscapes, portraits, architectural vignettes, and folk life. Among the photographers are Elizabeth Matheson, Caroline Vaughan, and Bill Bamberger.
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The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of only two art museums in the country to have a permanent display of Jewish ceremonial art. The Judaic Art Gallery was founded by the late Dr. Abram Kanof. Among the items in the collection are ornaments that decorate the Torah and a rare late 18th-century silver Torah shield.
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John Singleton Copley's portrait of Wilmington merchant and planter John Burgwin, which was painted in 1783, is one of only a few portraits of North Carolinians by America's first great artist. The painting remained in the family for 222 years, and in 2005, it was donated to the North Carolina Museum of Art.
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