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Article: A 20th century time machine. (British Museum's exhibition of Egyptian art)
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- The Middle East
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- February 1, 1995
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An exhibition at the British Museum blends the old and the new with some startling results.
In hundreds of central London locations, including scores of underground stations across the city, a striking poster advertises an exhibition, Time Machine - Ancient Egypt and Contemporary Art - currently being staged at The British Museum. The poster depicts a spectacular golden coloured sand sculpture, snaking across the floor of the British Museum's Egyptian Sculpture Gallery towards the head and torso of a centuries old statue excavated in Upper Egypt decades ago. Don't bother to look for the sand sculpture if you visit the exhibition - it isn't there. But, as James Putnam ...