“I don’t get to introduce rock stars,” said Art Gallery of Ontario CEO Matthew Teitelbaum.
Well tonight he did.
Forget the critical New Yorker article, the mixed reviews of the new Tut exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, or the fact that local Toronto media largely stayed away from this lecture.
The world’s most well-known Egyptologist completely filled Convocation Hall, with people who had all paid a small admission fee (no more than $18) to hear him speak.
There was a line snaking up Kings College Circle (the street outside the hall) an hour before it even started.
Now, before I get into what Dr. Hawass said, I should say this – I’ve been cursed.
It’s believed that the mosaic was created at some point between AD 325 and 350. This was the time when the city of Constantinople was being founded.
At the centre is an image of a red rooster along with fruit. The rooster is surrounded by a vine scroll. A Greek inscription is at centre and reads: (mosaic) was completed on April 15 in the Indiction year 10 in the year 104. There is a geometric pattern surrounding these motifs. On the right side of the mosaic there is a very complex pattern.
The mosaic will be featured in the new Byzantine gallery, opening in 2011, at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
The galleries will be completed some time in 2011. For now I thought I would show a picture of a key artefact that will be featured in the Byzantine Gallery. It’s a mosaic that dates to the time when the city of Constantinople was being founded (AD 325-350).
Nine speakers from universities in Ontario and New York State will present their research on the ancient Aegean. The event is free if you have a museum membership - non-members will have to pay the usual museum admission fee.
The event will be held in the Eaton theatre, and is sponsored by the museum, the Hellenic Republic of Greece, Greek Communities of Canada and the Archaeology Centre at the University of Toronto.
The Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto Canada, will be hosting Ontario Aegean Archaeology Day on Saturday March 6.
Nine speakers from universities in Ontario and New York State will present their research on the ancient Aegean. The event is free if you have a museum membership. Non-members will have to pay museum admission. The event is being held in the Eaton theatre.
The event is being sponsored by the museum, the Hellenic Republic of Greece, Greek Communities of Canada and the Archaeology Centre at the University of Toronto.
LECTURES:
Source - Royal Ontario Museum
10:30 am - Introduction: Paul Denis, ROM
Chair - 1st session: Professor Carl Knappett, Art, University of Toronto
10:40 am - Professor James Conolly, Anthropology, Trent University
Of Blades and Arrows: Hunters and Farmers of Antikythera in the Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
11:10 am - Dr. Jill Hilditch, Art, University of Toronto
As Far as the Eye Could See - Islandscapes and Community Space in the Early Bronze Age Cyclades
11:40 am - Professor Tristan Carter, Anthropology, McMaster University
Body Politics: Adornment and Identity in the Later 3rd Millennium BC Southern Aegean
This Sunday tutters at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), in Toronto Canada, will attempt to set a world record for the most people tutting at one time.
Dr. Chen Shen is a senior curator at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto Canada. He also teaches at the University of Toronto as an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies.
He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto, an MA from the University of Oklahoma and a BA from Wuhan University, China. Dr. Shen came to the ROM in 1997 as the first Bishop White curator of East Asian Archaeology, an endowed curatorship.
His research focuses on unravelling the story of the first people of China. His team has uncovered the earliest known hominid site in China, dating back 1.66 million years. It’s known as the Guodi site and is located to the northwest of Beijing. He has also done work at the site of Zhoukoudian, which is where Homo Erectus fossils (Peking Man) were found in the early 20th century. They date to as far back as 770,000 years ago.
In his position at the ROM he has taken on responsibility for a collection that spans every time period of China’s past. As such he is curator in charge of the show The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army which will be the largest Terracotta Warriors show ever to hit North America.
News of this exhibit has been leaking out in bits and pieces for weeks. But today the official announcement of it was made and full details have been released.
The exhibit will be hitting the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Canada starting in late June. The precise exhibition start/end dates are being arranged.
As reported earlier the exhibit will be stopping at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and the Royal BC Museum in Victoria BC. A stop in Montreal was announced several months back.
The official announcement is coming a week today (January 27) but news continues to trickle out about the exhibition of the Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, set to hit Toronto in June.
Officials have been tight-lipped about this exhibit so what we've been hearing has been in drips and drabs.
But that’s not all. Earlier in the day there was an announcement made by Canada’s infrastructure minister John Baird.
He said that the Canadian government will commit $2.75 million towards the construction of new Roman and Byzantine galleries at the Royal Ontario Museum. It will also be used in revamping the “bat cave," - a facsimile of a bat cave that is geared towards children.
Question – who can completely fill up a cavernous 1,500 seat domed hall on a Saturday night in Toronto?
Planners and construction workers are hard at work building new 
Snow-weary Toronto residents are set to get some Aegean relief this Saturday. The 
News of this exhibit has been leaking out in bits and pieces for weeks. But today the official announcement of it was made and full details have been released.
The official announcement is coming a week today (January 27) but news continues to trickle out about the exhibition of the 
Yesterday was an exciting day for those in Toronto who are interested in archaeology.
