Monthly Archives: July 2008

A Titanic–Egypt Connection in the Wilbour Library of Egyptology

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Mary Gow

Like people, books have histories. Bookplates, inscriptions and marginal notes all tell us something about where the book has been and who owned it. The Brooklyn Museum’s Wilbour Library of Egyptology recently received a gift from the Museum’s Director of … Continue reading…

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Q&A about the Conservation of objects for “To Live Forever”

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Tina March

“To Live Forever” is finally up at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and they have done an amazing job posting a wealth of information on their website. The latest bit to go up is a Q&A session about the conservation … Continue reading…

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Crowd-Curated or Crowd-Juried?

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Kevin Stayton

After I was recently asked to write a blog posting about Click! from my perspective, I spoke with some of my colleagues—Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography, and Judy Kim, Curator of Exhibitions–about the exhibition, and we began to discuss … Continue reading…

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Top 10 Reasons The Commons on Flickr is Awesome

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

I promised a follow-up after we’d been in The Commons for a while, so here you go. Top 10 Reasons The Commons on Flickr is Awesome: 10. George Oates is cool and George runs The Commons. 9. Come together now: … Continue reading…

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Collection Preview (and re-thinking tagging)

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Our collection is going online and this is something we’ve been working on for a long time. Although we have some clean up to do and we won’t be layering this feature into our website until early next week, if … Continue reading…

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Ghada Amer’s Political Work

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Sarah Giovanniello

(Ghada Amer (American, born Egypt, 1963) and Ladan S. Naderi (French, born Iran, 1960). I ♥ Paris, 1991. Three chromogenic prints from a series of six. Courtesy of the artists.) A notable section of Ghada Amer: Love Has No End … Continue reading…

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Beaux-Arts Court Gets a New Floor

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Ann K. Webster

Postcard of the plan for the Brooklyn Museum as envisioned by McKim, Mead, & White in 1893. The original design plan for the Brooklyn Museum, developed by McKim, Mead, & White in 1893, called for a building of about 500 … Continue reading…

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Click! The Book

Posted on July 7, 2008 by James Leggio

Cover: Marcia Bricker Halperin. Dubrow’s Cafeteria, 1979. Softcover: 86 pages, 7 x 7 inches. Details, including a special $3-off coupon from Blurb.com, can be found here. It may seem strange that in the third millennium, we still communicate by pressing … Continue reading…

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Information Cascade!

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Photo by Donna Aceto, who saved the day when my camera battery died. Thanks, Donna. I couldn’t help but laugh last Saturday night. Click! was packed—clearly, there was an information cascade happening on the second floor of the Brooklyn Museum. … Continue reading…

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Reflections on June Public Programs in the Center!

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Sarah Giovanniello

June was a rather fruitful month for programs in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art! On Target First Saturday we listened to Ghada Amer talk about her work from the exhibition Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, which … Continue reading…

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Little Treasures From the Past

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Keith DuQuette

One of the delights in preserving the Libraries and Archives collections at the Brooklyn Museum is that I am so often pleasantly surprised at what I find in a book or a box. A while back I opened two boxes … Continue reading…

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Moolaadé: Film and Discussion in the Forum this First Saturday!

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Jessica Shaffer

(Film Still from Moolaadé (2004), directed by Ousmane Sembène.) This month’s Target First Saturday events at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art here at the Brooklyn Museum includes a screening of the film Moolaadé. Directed by Ousmane Sembène, … Continue reading…

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Click! Meetup

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

There’s been overwhelming positive feedback about the idea of a Click! meetup during the upcoming Target First Saturday, so let’s do it! I’ll be giving a Click! gallery talk at 8 p.m., so I’m planning to be around from roughly … Continue reading…

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