Exhibitions, 1941-2002

This series contains records relating to the planning and organization of exhibitions, as well as related activities such as events and publicity. Exhibitions that are most Guide to the Records of the Department of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art 20 extensively documented are Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan (1978) and Cleopatra’s Egypt: Age of the Ptolemies (1988). The Africa in Antiquity exhibition, which contained over 250 objects from twenty-five lenders, went through a five-year gestation and was postponed once before opening at the Brooklyn Museum on September 30, 1978. Cleopatra’s Egypt was a traveling exhibition that began at the Brooklyn Museum and traveled to the Detroit Institute of Arts and then to the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Stiftung, Munich. A catalog was published and a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition.

This series also contains files on Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period. Organized by Bernard Bothmer and John Cooney in 1960, this exhibition displayed approximately 140 objects dating from 700 B.C. to A.D. 100. This first comprehensive showing of Late Period Egyptian sculpture was the culmination of ten years of research in Egypt, Europe, and the Americas.