Archaeology

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAM HAS CHANGED. We will now be presenting
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Collection

Monday, June 18
6:30 PM

Visual presentation

Many of the objects in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian collection are old favorites with our visitors: William, the blue hippo; the exquisite lips of a queen in yellow jasper; the graceful models from Meketre's tomb; or the serene-looking statue of Hatshepsut in indurated limestone. The stories that these pieces tell about ancient Egypt are well known. This presentation shares new narratives developed by the Met's curators that were uncovered as they studied a number of recent acquisitions. These fascinating objects open new windows into the ongoing study of ancient Egyptian culture.
    Diana Craig Patch, Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge, is an Egyptologist specializing in archaeology, who received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. During her tenure at the Met, Patch has curated The Dawn of Egyptian Art (2012), an exhibition that demonstrated how Predynastic art contributed to the foundation of Pharaonic culture, and the exhibition Cleopatra's Needle (2013–14), which celebrated the Central Park icon. Additionally, she co-curated the reinstallation of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic gallery (2003). Patch has taught courses at the Institute of Fine Arts, City University of New York, and Rutgers University, and also lectures extensively. For the past thirty-five years, Patch has carried out fieldwork in Egypt and currently is co-director of the Joint Expedition to Malqata—a project for mapping, excavating, and restoring the festival city of Amenhotep III in western Thebes.

Diana Craig Patch's second NAC lecture is co-sponsored with ARCE/New York.

Pictured: The Coffin Lid of Nedjemankh, Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017 (2017.255a, b)

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. A RESERVATION IS NOT REQUIRED.