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Category Archives: Museums This might be the goddess Hathor. Apparently we are not certain. One of the things I like about shooting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the lighting. There are abundant lights hitting each piece from several angles, yet not so much light that there is a lack of shadows.  This is photograph of a statue of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The entire room is filled with statues of her. I suppose we have so many because “Hatshepsut has been called the most accomplished pharaoh at promoting her accomplishments.”  Earlier this week Edith Levy published a beautiful shot of a glass ceiling in a shopping mall in Rome, and she noted that she doesn’t “recall any shopping centres that look like this here at home.” True enough. But in Vegas? Well. These are the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. And I’m not saying they […]  I take it that these items are not particularly rare. From a shelf of small Epyptian statues in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  This is probably the least ostentatious piece of artwork in the Caesers Palace Hotel in Las Vegas. I quite like it, including the way the image is broken into 4 pieces, creating black horizontal lines across the statue’s face. It would probably not be considered subtle in any other context, but here, it earns the […] 
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