Monthly Archives: August 2008

Carnival is coming!

Posted on August 27, 2008 by Eleanor Whitney

West Indian American Day Parade, 2006. Photo courtesy Sam Liu. All rights reserved. I always know that Labor Day weekend is coming when the the stage for the events and concerts for the West Indian American Day Carnival Festival is … Continue reading…

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How I learnt about Brooklyn – 2.0 style.

Posted on August 26, 2008 by Francesca Ford

A little background, in 2006 I was finishing a Masters in Online Learning in Sydney Australia, researching how cultural institutions were participating in online social networks. One fateful day I found the Graffiti in Brooklyn photographs on Flickr. Set up … Continue reading…

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A Public Programs Recap for July!

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Sarah Giovanniello

July was a hot month for programming in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art! First off, Ladan Akbarnia, Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art here at the Brooklyn Museum, with the assistance of sign language interpreter Jina … Continue reading…

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Kehinde Wiley Here and Around Town

Posted on August 13, 2008 by Tumelo Mosaka

Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977). Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps, 2005. Oil on canvas. Collection of Suzi and Andrew B. Cohen, L2005.6. Photo taken in the Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Lobby of the Brooklyn Museum courtesy … Continue reading…

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Reflections on Click! by James Surowiecki

Posted on August 8, 2008 by James Surowiecki

Much of the critical reception of Click! has focused, understandably, on the artistic quality of the photographs that the crowd liked best, with a number of critics making predictably dismissive comments about the mainstream nature of the favored pictures (and … Continue reading…

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Petah Coyne – New Installation on 5th Floor

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Tumelo Mosaka

New on view on the 5th floor is an installation of works by Petah Coyne from the collection. These works are individual pieces that have been envisioned as an installation. For this, she created flowers and bows to complement and … Continue reading…

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Tag! You’re it!

Posted on August 1, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

We’ve just launched our collection online and now we need some help tagging, so visitors can better find objects within it. Of course, we were thinking, why does tagging have to be such work? Why not try and do something … Continue reading…

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