Barbara Surk, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DOHA, Qatar - Qatar's new Islamic art museum, designed by the famous American architect I.M. Pei, is the latest effort by this tiny, oil-rich nation to compete with rival Gulf countries for international attention and investment. Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates have also spent billions over the last decade to transform themselves from small desert towns to sprawling...
Mario Testino: Saatchi Gallery, Jean-Leon Gerome: The Getty, Norman Rockwell: American Art Museum
Huffington Post
Huffington Post
WHO: Mario Testino WHAT: 'Kate Who?' WHERE: Phillips de Pury & Company Howick Place London SW1P 1BB WHEN: Exhibition Opens 21 July 2010 WHY: Kate Who?, an exhibition of iconic works by Mario Testino at Phillips de Pury &...
Milwaukee Museum Hosts Mummies Exhibit
WPXI
WPXI
MILWAUKEE -- The largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled is coming to Milwaukee later this year....
Companies vie to build new $550 million museum of pharaonic treasures in Egypt
Daily Star Lebanon
Daily Star Lebanon
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - Powered by CAIRO: Forty companies are vying to build the final phase of Egypt’s new $550 million museum which will showcase the largest collection of pharaonic treasures in the...
Firms vie to build Egypt's $550 mln pharaonic museum
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
CAIRO (Reuters) – Forty companies are vying to build the final phase of Egypt's new $550 million museum which will showcase the largest collection of pharaonic treasures in the world, the project's...
New museum exhibit focuses on mummies
The Business Review
The Business Review
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Meetings with remarkable mummies
The Guardian
The Guardian
A new exhibition in the US puts on display an incredible array of mummies – and only a few from Egypt The 13th-century mummy of a Peruvian adult female on display at the California Science Center, Los Angeles....
'Chasing Mummies' premiering
Tulsa World
Tulsa World
By Verne Gay Newsday WHAT IT'S ABOUT: According to History, this show is about the "amazing adventures" of Dr. Zahi Hawass, a leading Egyptologist and general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. A fixture on...
Real-life Indiana Jones unearths 'Mummies'
Boston Herald
Boston Herald
The title of History’s latest show “Chasing Mummies” (debuting tonight at 10) lends itself to obvious questions: How fast are these mummies and where are they going? “I don’t know if you can...



