brooklyn museum
i went to the brooklyn museum of art yesterday after a failed attempt last weekend. we had the day off from work, but the subways were still running normally!
i went out to see one exhibit, to live forever: art and the afterlife in ancient egypt. i expected the exhibit to just focus on that, but it actually was primarily focusing on contrasting the upper, middle and lower class funerals.
the exhibit was made up of 2 small rooms and 1 larger room. as i have found is typical of brooklyn museum exhibits, i was not sure if i went through the exhibit in the right order. i ended up going through all three rooms in clockwise orders circling back and finishing at the beginning.
the exhibit was primarily contrasting the three classes. typically, the lower class would try to replicate the upper class funerals by either reducing the number of items (like food given to the dead, toys, fake servants), replacing more expensive materials with cheaper ones or changing the location of the funeral from tombs to burials in the sand. in a few cases, the lower class replacement material became more popular and started being replicated by the upper class. i also thought it was interesting that the lower cases would paint their coffins yellow to replicate the gold plated coffins of the upper class.
times visited: 3
time in museum: 1 hr
overall: B (up from B-)
i went out to see one exhibit, to live forever: art and the afterlife in ancient egypt. i expected the exhibit to just focus on that, but it actually was primarily focusing on contrasting the upper, middle and lower class funerals.
the exhibit was made up of 2 small rooms and 1 larger room. as i have found is typical of brooklyn museum exhibits, i was not sure if i went through the exhibit in the right order. i ended up going through all three rooms in clockwise orders circling back and finishing at the beginning.
the exhibit was primarily contrasting the three classes. typically, the lower class would try to replicate the upper class funerals by either reducing the number of items (like food given to the dead, toys, fake servants), replacing more expensive materials with cheaper ones or changing the location of the funeral from tombs to burials in the sand. in a few cases, the lower class replacement material became more popular and started being replicated by the upper class. i also thought it was interesting that the lower cases would paint their coffins yellow to replicate the gold plated coffins of the upper class.
times visited: 3
time in museum: 1 hr
overall: B (up from B-)
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