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Egyptian treasures to seduce visitors of museum Turin
Updated: February 5 2009, 16:20 CET
TURIN: Some major exhibitions are travelling around the globe attracting thousands of visitors. Egypt’s "Sunken Treasures" is one of them. This weekend Scuderie Juvarriane della in Turin Reggia di Venaria will open her doors to this major travelling exhibition displaying 489 archeological Egyptian artefacts excavated from beneath the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, taking the visitors on an imaginary voyage through time and space back to the Ptolemaic, Byzantine, Coptic and early Islamic eras.
Visitors can take a virtual dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea and explore the lost treasures of ancient Egypt. With waves echoing on the audio system and the sparkling black floor reflecting the seabed, audio-visual technology and visual effects are used to invoke the ambiance from which the antiquities were retrieved and the stages of the underwater excavation. Pots and pans, knives, forks, bottles and plates are exhibited alongside navigational instruments, cannons, swords and guns from Napoleon's fleet, sunk by Nelson during the naval Battle of Abu Qir in 1798. These objects are the result of almost two decades of underwater excavation beneath the Mediterranean.
The exhibition travelled earlier to Berlin, Paris, Bonn and Madrid and aroused worldwide interest, and the professional archaeologists as well anxiously await the opportunity to examine the sensational archaeological finds
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New Porsche Museum opens in Stuttgart
Updated: February 2 2009, 15:45 CET
STUTTGART: Despite the economic recession and problems in the car industry, last Saturday the new Porsche museum in Stuttgart opened her doors to the public at the automaker's headquarters in the city's Zuffenhausen district. The museum, designed by Delugan Meissl, hopes to lure 200,000 visitors a year to the museum, competition for the rival Mercedes museum, located a half-hour away in Untertuerkheim, a Stuttgart suburb. Engines, interactive displays, Porsche memorabilia and 80 cars, including prototypes and icons like the 911, all polished to a mirror-sheen, are parked on two floors of pristine, white galleries illustrating 60 years of German engineering.
The collection includes a 550 Spyder, the model James Dean was driving when he died in a collision with a Studebaker in 1955. Other models, like the 917 type Hollywood star Steve McQueen made famous in "Le Mans" and the 928 version Tom Cruise's character in "Risky Business" used to elude trouble, are parked bumper-to-bumper under dazzling spotlights.
Each car is described with signs in English and German, and visitors can get up-close-and-personal with the vehicles, with no barriers keeping them at a distance. Many of the cars on display still race in events around the world and almost every car in the museum is road ready.
Behind a glass wall opposite the main entrance, visitors can watch mechanics working on the museum's collection.
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Budapest presents blockbuster ‘Diana: A celebration’
Updated: January 29 2009, 14:45 CET
BUDAPEST: This weekend the major travelling exhibition ‘Diana: A celebration’ will open at the Károlyi-Csekonics Residence in Budapest. The exhibition is on loan from the Althorp Estate, the Spencer family’s 500-year-old ancestral home, and an initiative of Diana’s brother Charles Spencer. At the Althorp Estate it has been on display since 1998 and attracted over 700,000 visitors, although open for only three months of the year.
The exhibition presents the life and humanitarian work of Diana (1961-1997), the late princess of Wales, through nine galleries containing 150 objects including her royal wedding gown and 28 of her designer dresses to family heirlooms, personal mementoes, paintings and rare home movies and photos. The show invites the visitor to share the milestones of her many roles: as a youngster, schoolgirl and athlete; as the shy kindergarten teacher who captured the heart of the Prince and the public; as the young, ravishing royal bride; as the devoted mother, sister and daughter; and as the tireless charity advocate and spokeswoman.
The exhibition is being produced by Arts and Exhibitions International. All profits generated to the Althorp Estate from exhibition will support the ongoing work of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to benefit communities living with the legacy of landmines, cluster bombs and other explosive remnants of war. Since 1998 the Exhibition at Althorp has generated over $1,899,708.41 for charities supported by the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.
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Three major international festivals compete for film fan
Updated: January 27 2009, 10:21 CET
GOTHENBORG: Last Friday the 30th edition of the Göteborg Film Festival opened her doors in the second largest city in Sweden, Gothenborg. This years focus of international festival is on Turkey with 10 new, Turkish films, 2 documentaries and 8 fiction films. Göteborg International Film Festival was started in 1979 and is today the biggest film festival in the Nordic countries and one of the biggest public film festivals in the world. Every year about 450 films from around 70 countries are screened. The aim of Göteborg International Film Festival is to offer interested viewers a broad programme of international films that not always reach the cinemas.
And the Göteborg Film Festival is not the only major film event to attract film fans, because two days earlier the 38th edition of the international film festival in the Dutch harbor of Rotterdam started, offering a selection of worldwide independent, innovative and experimental cinema as well as a series of film-related visual arts exhibitions and live performances. During twelve festival days, hundreds of filmmakers and other artists present their work to a large and devoted audience in 24 screening venues located within central Rotterdam.
Next week the 59th edition of the Berlinale, the annual international film festival and Berlin’s largest cultural event will open its doors in the German capital. Up to 400 films are shown every year as part of the Berlinale's public programme, the vast majority of which are world or European premieres. This year’s main venues are the Cinema Paris on the Kurfürstendamm, and the Friedrichstadtpalast where the Berlinale Special Gala Screenings will be held. In addition, a long-term documentation will be shown at the Cosima, a local arthouse cinema. The festival sees itself as a showcase for what is happening in cinema, but also as an actor and propagator on the international film circuit. Whether through film series, workshops, panels and thematic collaborations with other cultural players - the Berlinale offers countless forms of co-operation and creative interaction.
Göteborg Film Festival 2009 (23.01 – 2.02. 2009)
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 (21.01-01.02.2009)
Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2009 (05.02 – 15.02.2009)
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Opera world premiere at Palais Garnier in Paris
Updated: January 26 2009, 09:06 CET
PARIS: This weekend ‘Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne’ the new opera of the Belgian composer Philippe Boesmans had its world premiere at the Palais Garnier in Paris. The opera based on Witold Gombrowicz's surrealist play of the same name is conducted by Sylvain Cambreling and performed by Klangforum Wien and the Ensemble Les Jeunes Solistes. The cast includes Caroline Peters (Yvonne); Paul Gay (Le Roi Ignace); Mireille Delunsch (La Reine Marguerite) and Yann Beuron (Le Prince Philippe). The character of Yvonne evolves, revealing others not as they think they are but reflecting their inner truth as if in a mirror.
Many of the world’s capitals have famous opera houses as one of their main tourist attractions. The Paris Opera is run by Gerard Mortier who will move to Madrid’s major opera house Teatro Real next year. His aim is to work to make it one of the world's great opera houses and win more people over to the art. "I aim to fascinate the public," said Gerard Mortier.
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