Culture - Page 74

The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Britain has been overcome by Bayeux Tapestry fever (as has CA: see our feature on here and more in Sherds on here) with the famous embroidery returning to British soil for the

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Last Supper in Pompeii

November 16, 2019

The extraordinary levels of preservation at the relatively ordinary Roman city of Pompeii and other sites in the Bay of Naples, where the eruption of Mount Vesuvius devastatingly interrupted the inhabitants as they went about their daily lives, provide remarkable insights into the production, distribution, and conspicuous consumption of food and wine.

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The Charterhouse

October 12, 2019

A recently opened museum at London’s Charterhouse illuminates centuries of life at this former medieval monastery. Lucia Marchini explores some of the highlights.

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Cyclades: Homage to Dhaskalio

September 19, 2019

My trip, then, was a pilgrimage of sorts, to visit Colin Renfrew and his newly-found sanctuary.

TV & Film

War on Film: Zulu

Military History

September 14, 2019

Taylor Downing reviews the classic war film Zulu.

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One of the magnificent six: secrets from the Byzantine city of Shivta

August 18, 2019

How did cities come to flourish in the Negev Desert? George Nash has gone in search of Shivta’s former glory.

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Review: Royal Navy Submarine Museum

Military History

July 14, 2019

Reviewing the best military history exhibitions WITH MATTHEW ADAMS.

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Denmark’s Viking fortresses: a Tuscan challenge

Richard Hodges

January 19, 2019

Richard Hodges explores the Viking fortresses at Trelleborg and Borgring.

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The Road to Palmyra

January 19, 2019

Halfway between the Mediterranean and the River Euphrates, the Efqu spring offered refreshing respite for ancient traders crossing the dusty Syrian desert. The city of Palmyra flourished at the oasis, its merchants

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Writing early medieval England: tracing the first echoes of Anglo-Saxon voices

January 15, 2019

How did the kingdoms of early medieval England evolve into a single nation? A new exhibition at the British Library combines artefacts and manuscripts to tell the story of the Anglo-Saxons in their own words. Carly Hilts reports.

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The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey

December 3, 2018

New displays in Westminster Abbey’s eastern triforium (the gallery above the nave) explore the long history of the church, its royal links, and its importance as a national monument. Lucia Marchini takes a look at the recently opened Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries.

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Harry Potter: a history of magic

October 27, 2018

What link is there between archaeology and a best-selling series of children’s books? To find out, Lucia Marchini tours the British Library’s major new exhibition.

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The Rothschild Pentateuch

September 15, 2018

The text contains features that indicate it may have been written in France for Jewish emigrés who had been expelled from England in 1290.

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Modernising Maudslay’s Maya casts

June 15, 2018

These monumental carvings are just two of the many the adventurous Alfred Maudslay recorded on his travels around Mesoamerican sites in the 1880s and 1890s.

TV & Film

War on Film – The Vietnam War

Military History

January 15, 2018

James H Willbanks gives an insider’s view on the making of The Vietnam War.

Travel

Iran

September 21, 2017

It was a splendid tour: we stayed in 9 different hotels over 16 days, which meant that we were always on the move. But this was just what we wanted, for we explored the heart of the historic country and saw – if briefly – most of the best-known archaeological sites.

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema: the archaeologist of artists

August 24, 2017

Dominic Green looked at the sensual paintings of the acclaimed Victorian artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema on show at Leighton House in London.

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Picasso – half man, half bull

August 22, 2017

Picasso never visited Greece, let alone Crete. He didn’t need to do so. He re-created it on paper. The drawings and prints in our show reveal how Picasso evoked the ancient world and peopled it with gorgeous girls who resembled his mistresses.

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Ancient America: following the Thunderbird

January 20, 2017

Well-known for his television programmes on the archaeology of South America, curator Dr Jago Cooper now focuses on the ancient cultures of the northwest coast of North America in his new exhibition at the British Museum, as he tells Diana Bentley

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A stitch in time: masterpieces of English medieval embroidery

January 15, 2017

Jenny Davenport marvels at all the astoundingly intricate works of medieval English embroidery in Opus Anglicanum, a major exhibition currently on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

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