Category Archives: Museums

At Last! – Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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At Last – Grand News! It took 15- 30 years to build each pyramid- and how many years has the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) been delayed? Trial Visits program in place now, if you are traveling to Cairo, book your appointment now. Access is currently limited to the Grand Hall, Grand Staircase, commercial area, and exterior gardens.

The Grand Egyptian Museum has begun a limited trial visits program for certain completed areas of the complex that are ready for the public to access and enjoy. While it is no longer always necessary to have an advance reservation for a visit to the GEM for the Trial Visits Program, daily slots are limited and sometimes do sell out in advance. Therefore, an advance online reservation is still recommended.

Before you purchase trial visit tickets, you should watch the April 2024 GEM Updates Video in order to ensure that you fully understand which areas of the GEM will be open and accessible during your trial visit and which areas remain closed until the museum’s full public opening in the near future.

Once you are fully aware of how the GEM trial visits work and what areas are and are not accessible on a trial visit, you may use this link to directly access the legitimate temporary website that has been set up for the GEM trial visits program.

While it is no longer always necessary to have an advance reservation for a visit to the GEM for the Trial Visits Program, daily slots are limited and sometimes do sell out in advance. Therefore, an advance online reservation is still recommended.

Highly Recommend and a new reason to return to Egypt!

GEM, Cairo
GEM, Cairo
GEM, Cairo

Paris Art is Always a Good Idea. Two Celebration’s – Spring into Summer.

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Think late spring and try to avoid summer for these two exhibitions. The exhibition, Sheer: The diaphanous creations of Yves Saint Laurent will be on display at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris. Dates: February 9 to to 25 August 2024. It will be the second chapter of a story that began last summer at the Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais.

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The Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris invited the curator Anne Dressen to be its artistic advisor; she will focus on transparency as a chosen artistic expression of Yves Saint Laurent. The exhibition has been designed by the architect Pauline Marchetti, whose work explores the intersection of perception and space.

Few articles of clothing are entirely transparent. In theory, transparency is incompatible with the very function of clothing, which is to cover the body, conceal or protect it. Intrigued by this contradiction, and by the powerful role diaphanous fabrics could play in his work, Yves Saint Laurent began using materials such as chiffon, lace and tulle in the 1960s. Like a leitmotif, he regularly employed transparency during his forty creative years, at times alongside embroidered or opaque fabrics. He daringly reconciled these contradictions, allowing women to proudly and boldly assert their bodies. 1966 announced the start of the sexual revolution of 1968. The female body was gradually revealed. Rudi Gernreich designed the first monokini in 1964. In 1966, Yves Saint Laurent made the female chest visible with his first sheer look, which he subtly covered with see-through cigaline. The nude look was born. In 1968, Saint Laurent designed the most emblematic example of this: a completely transparent chiffon dress with a belt made of ostrich feathers.

March 26 to July 14, 2024. The Musée d’Orsay Celebrates 150 years of Impressionism. Paris 1874.
Inventing impressionism 150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. “Hungry for independence”, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne finally decided to free themselves from the rules by holding their own exhibition, outside official channels: impressionism was born. To celebrate this anniversary, Musée d’Orsay is presenting some 130 works and bringing a fresh eye to bear on this key date, regarded as the day that launched the avant-gardes.