Videos & DVDs

Videos and DVDs

Moving Nefertiti (2009)

2:29 minutes. Produced by Ellen Brody-Kirmss. Text by Stan Parchin. Images courtesy of Neues Museum, Berlin. © Art Museum Journal.

Art Museum Journal's behind-the-scenes video traces the painstaking relocation of ancient Egypt’s famous Bust of Nefertiti (ca. 1346-1342 B.C.) from Berlin's Altes Museum to the nearby renovated Neues Museum in Summer 2009.

Finding Tutankhamun (2009)

4:02 minutes. Produced by Ellen Brody-Kirmss. Text by Stan Parchin. Images courtesy of he Metropolitan Museum of Art. © Art Museum Journal.

Developed from glass negatives, black-and-white photographs by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Harry Burton capture many of the precious artifacts in the modest four-chamber tomb of ancient Egypt’s Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.), a site discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Christmas Tree and Baroque Neapolitan Crèche (2009)

2:52 minutes. Produced by Ellen Brody-Kirmss. Text by Stan Parchin. Images by Robert Alan Espino. Music performed by Arthur Kirmss and Courant. © Art Museum Journal.

Art Museum Journal's video captures the resplendence of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's world-renowned Christmas Tree and Baroque Neapolitan Crèche, a festive Yuletide feature of the Main Building's first-floor Medieval Sculpture Hall since 1965.

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