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    Exposição dos objetos da tumba de Tutancamon em Nova York 2016

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    UR ANNUAL FOPLE AT THE INTER The SC Exhibitions Magazine 2016 The Egyptian Empire State: King Tut in New York ‘Wes Living in Tat times! Since his tomb’s dis 922, Tutankhamun has inspired exhi- Jhitons, cvents and even memorabilia, And the swecldwide fascination with the golden boy is ‘sexy much here to stays even as we go to press, her's been lots of excitement about the possi- bility of secret chambers hidden in the pharach’s som, rooms that might hide the lost burial of Qoeen Nefertiti. SC Exhibitions is proud to have three exhi- ition units of replica objects from Tatankha- ‘sun's tomb simultaneously touring the world. ‘Ove of these units opened in New York as "The Discovery of King Tut,” making this city the ex- Sibtion’s 30th destination since our first show fepened in Zurich in 2008. And we couldn't have ‘oped for a better location for our 30th opening even inthe 1920s, just after Howard Carter dis- severed Tutankhamun's tomb, New York was in Se grip of Tut-mania. You could listen to Tut seemed songs, walk into Egyptian-themed mov- se theatres and in shops, buy clothing likened to ‘sem that Cleopatra might have worn if'she were ave today To celebrate New York's love ofthe golden boy, Discovery of King Tut,” we decided to pablish The Tut Times, a special newspaper, free 1 Maputne (2016 for all visitors to the exhibition. Within, David Kamp, a long-time contributor to Vanity Fair ‘magazine, wrote a series of articles about New ‘York's relationship with Tutankhamun, and illus trator Peter Oumanski created a special city map, highlighting Egypt-themed locations. We also hheld a photo shoot with models Kadeem John- son and Nicole Alyse (who also did the styling). recreating New Yorks second wave of Tat-mania in the 1970s, when select items from Tatankha- rmun's tomb visited New York: for our shoot ‘Mr Johnson worea ‘Hands Off My Tuts" T-shirt— a replica of a design sold in the ‘70s ~ and Ms. Alyse, an authentic 70s Tut-inspired T-shirt. For a taste of The Tut Times, on the follow- ing pages youll find David Kamps article "NYC Loves Tat" and Peter Oumanski's New York map. ‘ve also included an article about our work with Dynamichrome, a company that trans- formed a selection of original black and white photos of the Tutankhamun tomb excavation into colour for us; these photos became part of ‘our exhibition in New York, and featured in ase- ries of educational vdeoson YouTube, created by Mediendeck. We also take a look at the design of Zahi Hawass's new book, "the Golden Boy: His- ‘ory for Kids” published by SC Exhibitions, “Did You Do the Monkey?” ‘stncaacemee oni Ure" Tut's Written by David Kamp. David Kamp is along- time contributor to Vanity Fait magazine, where he wrote an exhaustive story about the mania surrounding the King Tut exhibition's visit to America in the 1970s, He is also the author of several books, among them the nation- al bestseller "The United ates of Arugula.” He can be found on Twitter as @MrKamp_ Ilustration “Egypt in New York” by Peter Oumanski. Peter Oumanski studied fine arts in St. Peters- burg, Russia. His work bras appeared in such publications as Wired, ‘New York Times Mag: azine, GQ, Condé Nast ‘Traveler and many others. You can see more of Mr. ‘Oumanski’s ilustrations at peteroumanski.com NYC VT The Big Apple and the Boy King: An Ongoing Love Affair. Cov: gather ousice the Metropolitan Museum of ton te opening day ofthe exibition, December 20th 1978. As nation-rockingly successful as the “Trea- sures of Tutankhamun” tour ofthe late 1970s ‘was, no American city took Tut to its bosom more dearly than New York. The Big Apple could claim an early, if not quite ancient, connection to the boy king it was a photog- rapher afllated with the city’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry Burton, who made Howard Carters discoveries in The Valley of the Kings real to the world, by document- ing with his camera the archaeologists ex-

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