Friday, June 13, 2003

NEFERTITI GETS A NAKED BODY, EGYPTIANS ANGERED

This strikes me as a very odd curatorial decision by the good folks at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Here's an article in the Al-Ahram Weekly, which is also the source for this picture of what appears to be the controversial Hungarian artistic event in question:

nefertit with a naked bronze body

At the very least, this controversy will give Egyptians more ammunition in their attempt to recover artifacts from the Germans.

Read also the Guardian piece on this issue.