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South China Morning Post
29-06-2025
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong Palace Museum's Egyptian relics show ‘just the start' of collaborations
A coming Hong Kong Palace Museum exhibition displaying Egyptian relics, including a Tutankhamen statue and feline mummies, is just the beginning of plans for further collaborations and events, the custodian of the African nation's treasures has said. Dr Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, also told the Post that it would not rule out displaying other notable artefacts and mummies in Hong Kong. The council and the museum, located in the West Kowloon Cultural District, earlier signed an agreement to host the city's largest and longest-running exhibition of artefacts from the country, with 250 exhibits to go on display from November 20. The event, titled 'Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums', will run until August 31, 2026. The agreement has paved the way for the first collaboration between a Hong Kong museum and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, with both sides describing the move as the starting point for more joint efforts. Dr Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said he hopes the exhibition will encourage travellers from Hong Kong and mainland China to visit his country. Photo: Dickson Lee 'We were discussing today [about] future collaborations from different themes and also different artefacts that will be allowed to travel [from Egypt], or maybe new discoveries,' he said on Thursday.


SBS Australia
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- SBS Australia
Darrel Sibosado Brings his Artistic Eye to Bangarra's Illume
NITV Radio speaks with Darrell Sibosado, a Bard man from Lombadina by the Dampier Peninsula of the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. In their first time working with a First Nations visual artist, Bangarra Dance Theatre's Illume will have Darrell as an artist and cultural collaborator to bring the story of Country to life. "with this work, lighting is a big part of it, and its trying to reflect my visual arts practice and at the same time give an essence or feel of my Country." Bangarra Dance Theatres Illume will be touring nationally, from the 4th June to 13th September.


New York Times
30-05-2025
- New York Times
When the Met Renovated, It Listened to Villagers 9,000 Miles Away
The intricately painted panels of crocodiles, flying foxes and cassowary bellies hovering above the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will have a different look when the gallery reopens this weekend, after a four-year-plus renovation. The piece, called Ceremonial House Ceiling, was reconfigured through a collaboration with the Kwoma people of Papua New Guinea, some 9,000 miles away. This is probably the first time Pacific artists had input into its reinstallation since it was first displayed at the museum in 1982, when the wing opened. The number of panels, called pangal, which are individually painted sago palm petioles, has also dwindled to 170 from over 270. Pangal created by the Kalaba clan are now positioned south of the central spine that divides the structure. The other half were made by the Wanyi and are closer to the north. The pangal, through their designs, are a map of the cosmos, mythical knowledge and clan histories. They are hung in the men's ceremonial house, the largest and most sacred building in a Kwoma village. It is where initiation rites of young men, ceremonies tied to yam cultivation and other important events, are held. Museum staff jumped at the chance to collaborate with the Kwoma people, who were deeply involved in the project and came to New York for the gallery's reopening. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.