Though it’s not always considered high art (unfairly relegated, like fashion, to a lower rung), the demand is almost equally high for Egyptian Revival pieces. To land a Van Cleef & Arpels pictorial bracelet, a flat bracelet designed between 1923 and 1925 with sphinxes, scarabs, and lotus flowers, for example, Zapata said “a million dollars … Read more
When you decide to mount a production as spectacularly set, historically debated, and potentially unwieldy as Spike’s upcoming miniseries, Tut (which debuts on Sunday, July 19), you need to be seriously committed to the project—and possibly committed, too. Faced with the challenges of making three two-hour features in a 74-day time period in an unfamiliar … Read more
We’ve seen stories of ancient Egypt on-screen before—the biblical tale The Prince of Egypt, the extremely long Cleopatra, and the Mummy trilogy, as well as that one episode of Futurama on the possibility of ancient aliens. But have we mined all the stories of ancient Egypt, which spanned thousands of years and several cultural milestones … Read more
“This is how you tell a human story: by putting our hero into extraordinary corners out of which he has to fight.” And so it stands to reason that a conversation with actors Sir Ben Kingsley and Avan Jogia should be as significant as the tale they are bringing to the small screen. Sitting down … Read more
