All posts tagged: Grand Egyptian Museum

The Egyptologists’ Guide to the Grand Egyptian Museum

The Egyptologists’ Guide to the Grand Egyptian Museum

Published by Jenni Sidey

After more than a decade of anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest museum devoted to a single civilization, has fully opened its exhibitions, including the long-awaited King Tutankhamun halls. Originally announced in 2002, the idea for the museum dates back to the 1990s, when Egypt began envisioning a new institution in Giza to relieve the strain on the aging Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo. Construction began in 2005, but the path to completion faced setbacks from political upheavals, economic instability, and the logistical complexities of moving tens of thousands of fragile artifacts from across the country—and from abroad. The museum opened its doors in stages over the years: limited exhibitions, preview tours, and select events, including a visit from the British Royal Philharmonic. The museum was officially inaugurated on November 1, in a ceremony attended by world leaders, with public access beginning on November 4—the 103rd anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb. Twice the size of the Louvre, the vast complex is expected to draw between 13,000 and 15,000 visitors daily, according …

Filmmaker Amos Poe Dies at 76, and More

Filmmaker Amos Poe Dies at 76, and More

Published by José Betancourt

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines REEL GENIUS. The filmmaker Amos Poe, a No Wave pioneer whose gritty, DIY films helped define New York’s punk scene in the mid- and late ’70s, died December 25 at 76 following a battle with cancer, Reuters reports. His seminal works—including The Blank Generation (1975), Unmade Beds (1976), and Subway Riders (1979–80)—broke through the formalism of earlier generations of Downtown filmmakers, offering a mix of humor, off-kilter tenderness, and keen-eyed observation of a moment defined as much by economic decay as by guerrilla freedoms. Often made with amateur actors on minimal budgets, Poe’s films moved with an energy that mirrored the underground he traversed: densely composed, taut sequences of people forced into motion. Related Articles FLAGGING TASTE. A controversy has erupted at the British Museum after director Nicholas Cullinan proposed a 2026 fundraising ball themed “red, white, and blue” to celebrate the planned loan of the Bayeux Tapestry from France, the Guardian reports. Some staff decried the color scheme as being “in poor taste” amid a surge in far-right activity across the UK, including anti-immigration rallies marked by flag-waving and xenophobic …