Anyone planning on going up there to see the exhibit?? I plan to shortly after the 4th of july weekend. I have been waiting for years to see this...I believe its been about 35 years since he was last shown hear. Probably the biggest exhibit here in so cal in quite some time.
I'm taking the kids in October, after the rush is over (We are still on year-round school here)
I remember going to see the exhibit when I was in 1st grade, and no, it hasn't been 35 years.Close, though, 28, I think. 1976 or 1977. I still remember it, so I guess it made an impression on a six year old.
I saw this exhibit in London a few years ago. It is definetly worth going. Awesome!
hey, I said about... :rollside: I cant wait...did you hear about the protestors on the news protesting he was actually an african american man!! :hammerhea
hey, I said about... :rollside: I cant wait...did you hear about the protestors on the news protesting he was actually an african american man!! :hammerhea
African, yes. African-AmericanI don't get it. I don't watch TV, so I did not see them. Sounds pretty hair-brained to me.
African, yes. African-American
QUOTE=My Man's Sportin' Wood]African, yes. African-American
sorry..yeah..african..(black) so used to saying african american.
African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate.
The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse.
All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a caucasoid North African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit.
"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa."
The activists made their comments at the end of the public meeting.
No specific actions were taken by the board, but Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite, who is African-American, did ultimately address the speakers' concerns.
Being a past history major and all....I studied this stuff on end....I saw a very similar exhibit 4 years ago at the LA museum. I was trying to get someone to go with me to this one.....I dont know too many museum savvey people :redface:
Anyone planning on going up there to see the exhibit?? I plan to shortly after the 4th of july weekend. I have been waiting for years to see this...I believe its been about 35 years since he was last shown hear. Probably the biggest exhibit here in so cal in quite some time.
Well worth seeing. I saw it as a kid. It was in LA.
But it was not over 35 years ago just to clear that up.
Being a past history major and all....I studied this stuff on end....I saw a very similar exhibit 4 years ago at the LA museum. I was trying to get someone to go with me to this one.....I dont know too many museum savvey people :redface:
ME ME ME ME ME!!!
Well worth seeing. I saw it as a kid. It was in LA.
But it was not over 35 years ago just to clear that up.
haha...they said in the 70's so I automatically think 30haha :hammerhea
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