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With the UAE art season under way, Artsy, a leading online marketplace for art, has launched two initiatives that focus on the Mena region.
Middle East Galleries Now
The first, Middle Eastern Galleries Now, is an online presentation with at least 21 galleries from the UAE, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine, including Carbon 12, 1x1 Art Gallery, Tabari Art Space, Lawrie Shabibi, Q0DE, Art d’Egypte and Zawyeh Gallery.
Akin to an art fair, the virtual exhibition, which opens on Monday and runs until the end of the month, will include
booths for visitors to browse through and allow them to buy artworks directly from the galleries.
Penn Museum is getting its biggest makeover in 118 years
Soaring, 40-foot portal and columns of a temple from the palace of Merenptah will be displayed intact for first time. Rendering by Tom Fricker (Fricker Studio) and Carl Peterson (Brightman Designs). The Penn Museum is internationally famous for its incomparable collection of mummies and architectural elements from ancient Egypt (not to mention its sphinx), its dazzling artifacts from the Royal Tomb of Ur in the Middle East, and for its Mayan writing on stone shafts and tablets, some of the oldest carved in the Western hemisphere. It is less congenially known for displaying these objects in some of the darkest, hottest, and timelessly static galleries known to humankind.
Penn Museum awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge grant The grant will help catalyze fundraising for renovations to the Egyptian Wing of the Museum. Another grant was awarded to a project involving Weitzman School of Design’s Francesca Russello Ammon. The front entrance to the Penn Museum with a view of the Sphinx that was moved to the main entrance in 2019 as part of the major Building Transformation project. The Museum was just awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support the transformation’s next phase, renovation of the Egyptian Wing.
The Penn Museum has been awarded a $750,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The grant will help catalyze fundraising for the renovation of the Egyptian Wing as the Museum shifts into the second phase of its Building Transformation project.