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Lectures Around the City

Wednesday, February 19, 6:30 p.m.
Janet Wallach
"The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell."
Kevorkian Center, Stephen Cahn Auditorium, New York University.

Wednesday, March 26, 6 p.m.
Susan Allen
"Up the Nile in Style: Travel in Egypt in the 19th and Early 20th Century"
National Arts Club, Sculpture Garden, 15 Gramercy Park South
Sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt

Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The New Amarna Galleries: Egyptian Art 1353-1295 B.C.
October 8, 1996-February 2, 1997

Queen Nefertiti and the Royal Women: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt
Through February 2, 1997

Art from Central Asia: Tadjikistan
Opened October 1996

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents regularly scheduled programs related to exhibitions and the collections as listed below. Information on films is available at the Uris Center Information Desk where tickets are available one hour before screening. Gallery talks start at the Gallery Talk stanchion in the Great Hall. Lecture tickets are available at the Uris Center Information Desk for Friday lectures.

Wednesday, January 22 - 11:00
Queen Nefertiti and the Royal Women: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt. Phyllis Saretta

Thursday, January 23 - 2:00-5:00 p.m.
The Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series on Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Islamic Art.
Rita Wright, New York University
Marsha Hill, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Philippa Vaughan, Royal Asiatic Society, London
Uris Center.

Sunday, January 26 - 3:00 p.m.
Marianne Eaton-Krauss, of Humboldt University Berlin
"Ankhesenanum: Daughter of Nefertiti, Wife of Tutankhamun"
Uris Center.

Sunday, February 2 - 3:00 p.m.
"Mistress of Heaven": An Expedition to Karnak and an Exhibition in Brooklyn. Richard Fazzini, Chairman, Department of Egyptian, Classical and Ancient Middle eastern Art, The Brooklyn Museum. Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum.

Tuesday, February 11 - 3:00 p.m.
Life on the Nile. Shirley Glubok.

Tuesday, February 18 - 2:00 p.m.
Film: Ties That Bind: Fibres (55 min.). Uris Center Auditorium.

Friday, February 21 - 3:00 p.m.
Funerary Arts of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. Phyllis Saretta.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art also offers tours to regions around the world. One tour that may be of interest is: Ancient Civilizations from MArch 1-21, 1997. Itinerary includes Cairo, Upper Nile, Sinai, fabulous Petra and Palmyra, Damascus and an optional Prelude in Jerusalem.

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