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The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists is pleased to present HERO’S STORY: New Works by Cullen Washington, Jr, an exhibition of contemporary mixed-media works exploring the interplay between popular media heroes and black masculinity. The exhibition extends from October 18, 2009 through January 10, 2010. The exhibition is accompanied by a twenty-eight page illustrated catalogue. A conversation with the artist will be presented on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. More...
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HAITI: Paintings by Marilene Phipps
Though well-known as a poet, Marilene Phipps is a gifted visual artist passionately in love with paint and unafraid to probe spiritual dimensions of life as she observed and participated in it in her native Haiti. In these major paintings, she examines sites of public and personal pilgrimage, and pays respect to the humanity, dignity and character of Haitians that touched her life and work. Along the way, she infused the paintings with color and sobriety, introspection and a sense of the elegiac.
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Aspelta
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- A Nubian King's Burial Chamber"
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Permanent Exhibition
Ancient Nubians reached the pinnacle of glory during the 25 th dynasty when Nubian kings occupied the Egyptian throne and ruled from the Mediterranean Sea to the mountains of Ethiopia. In the waning years of the dynasty, King Aspelta ascended to the throne governing from 600 to 580 BC. After his death, he was buried at Nuri near the Nile River in present day Sudan.
Partial view of Aspelta’s recreated coffin
Early in the 20 th century, the Anglo-Sudanese government resolved to raise the Aswan dam higher thereby increasing the probability that the area would be permanently under water. Archeologists from the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, and Harvard University were hired to remove the significant historical material.
For this reason, a wealth of Nubian objects and records came to rest at the MFA. Drawing upon that collection and excavation records, we created Aspelta: A Nubian King’s Burial Chamber.
Eye of Horus
Our exhibition features more than fifty 2600 year old objects from Aspelta’s tomb and times, including a brick still speckled with gold, as well as the world’s only fully accurate recreation of a Nubian tomb interior. At the center of the burial chamber is a cast from Aspelta’s original sarcophagus containing a replica of his gilded coffin.
The walls of the tomb are carved with text from four chapters of the Egyptian Book of the Living along with illuminations of the myth of Osiris and from cycle of kingly death and resurrection. Walking into the burial chamber will impress upon the viewer the majesty of ancient Nubia and the ambition of its rulers
Nubian food altar
The museum offers tours and art projects based on Aspelta: A Nubian King’s Burial Chamber by pre-arrangement.
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- A Nubian King's Burial Chamber"
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