Each image in Bannino's Still Diets series consists of a table suspended in a black void, upon which elegant silverware, relevant decorative artifacts, and the food in question lay.
A 27,500 years old burial of a 1.5 year old child, complete with burial gift decorative artifacts, pendant or necklace elements made of teeth of large ungulates, was discovered in Borsuk Cave near Kraków (southern Kraków-Częstochowa Upland).
It was given to the museum in 1996 as part of a gift that included 32 functional and decorative bronze artifacts from what is now northern Iran.
Although the interior of the house looks much the same as before — simple contemporary furnishings complemented by decorative Asian artifacts and a miniature black schnauzer named Alice — living there has definitely become more complicated.
In any case, Mark Peters, the mayor, and Jack Goodman, who grew up a mile away and represents the area in the State Legislature, said they hoped to salvage decorative architectural artifacts to incorporate into any renovations.
They may be blessed -- or burdened -- with troves of artworks by once-semifamous, now-forgotten names and tons of decorative objects, artifacts and memorabilia donated by local citizens, but they usually have little space to display their treasures and limited resources for preservation and proper storage.
Comprising some 375 exhibits, including paintings, decorative arts, artifacts, models, ethnographic material, recorded sound and early film from 1837 to 1901, "Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision," Thursday through July 29, professes to present the Victorians as people of ambition and rather liberal societal attitudes and to show how the modern world was forged by their progress.
Through Oct. 22 Exhibitions juxtaposing art, artifacts, decorative objects and ephemera are in vogue, and more power to them.
From here the show tracks French history through the next two decades, with more than 200 paintings, sculptures, decorative objects, historical artifacts and all manner of odd and unexpected memorabilia.
It contained 40 mummies, including those of the pharaohs Seti I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose III, and Ramses II, in inscribed sarcophagi, as well as a profusion of decorative and funerary artifacts.
With 438 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, religious artifacts and decorative objects made by more than 160 artists, "Splendor" is the most complicated show the Philadelphia museum has organized to date.
