| Exhibition:
Islamic works of art of the Aga KhanMuseum. From October 5 2007
to January 7 2008. Museum of the Louvre. Paris, France
As a premiere of the opening of the Aga Khan Museum of Toronto,
expected for 2011, this exhibition invites to discover a selection
of works of art, from the magnificent Aga Khan collections. A number
of pages from the more famous Iranian manuscript of the 16th century,
the "Book of the kings" by Shah Tahmasp, two medieval
clothes wonderfully conserved, handwritings of different forms as
testimony of the aesthetic agitation of the Islamic world from Spain
to India. The exhibition also approaches the looks of the Islamic
world on the European or Chinese artistic productions. Finally,
it presents the architectonic projct made by Fumihko Maki for the
Aga Khan Museum.
Museum of the Louvre. Exhibitions. Arts
Islam. France. Publicated: 8-11-2007
Exhibition:
The Mediterranean of the Phoenicians, from Tyr to Carthage. From
November 6 from 2007 to April 20 2008. Institut of the Arab World,
Paris, France
the Institute of the Arab World is pleased to invite you to a prodigious
adventure around the Mediterranean, that of the Phoenicians during
the first millenium before the Christian era. Navigators and merchants,
Phoenicians are also known for having spread the alphabet and created
great figures of mythology: Cadmos, Europe, Adonis… Although
the Phoenician architecture is still little known, since few monuments
have remained, on the contrary it is fascinating the estatues –
which includes extraordinary sarcophages that will be displayed
in the exhibition -, like the tangible culture that has been conserved
and which is made up essentially of material objects of great refinement.
Institute of the Arab World. Exhibitions.
France. Publicated: 6-11-2007
Dominican
Museums
Sr. Carlos Hernández Soto, antiguo Director del Museo del
Hombre Dominicano, ha sido designado como nuevo Subsecretario de
Estado de Cultura. En lo adelante el nuevo Director del Museo del
Hombre Dominicano será el Dr. Marcio Veloz Magiolo. Contact:
mailto:p.gondecki@unesco.org.cu
UNESCO HABANA. INTERCAMBIO No. 7 - Espacio
Interno de Información entre colegas de cultura en LAC. Publicado:
2-11-2007
Celebration
of the Cuban Culture day in Bayamo
139 years after October 20 1868, when La Bayamesa was sung for the
first time in front of the church of Bayamo, and later became the
Cuban National anthem, after the long Cuban independence war in
that region, the national event was celebrated again. Within the
framework of the Celebration of the Cubans, inaugurated with different
events, including art presentations, tours and dissertations, among
them the central conference dedicated to the independence process
in Central America in charge of Hon. Mr. Estuardo Meneses, Ambassador
of Guatemala in Cuba, after which it started the 9 edition of the
Colloquium Tribute and Reflection, dedicated to heritage and the
museums…
UNESCO. Regional Bureau for Culture for
Latin America and the Caribbean. News. Publicated: 2-11-2007
UNESCO
maps museum heritage of Tajikistan
A recent UNESCO evaluation of more than 30 museums from the Sughd,
Dushanbe, Khatlon and Pamir districts has discovered rich ethnographic
and archaeological collections, as well as interesting materials
on the Tajik civil war. The inventory is part of UNESCO's worldwide
programme for the Preservation of Endangered Movable Cultural Properties
and Museum Development...
UNESCO. Cluster Office for Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Culture. News. Publication:
26-10-2007 |
