Monthly Archives: January 2009

Progress on all fronts

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Mary McKercher

We are so happy that William and Elsie Peck could join us again this year. After a look around the site first thing Saturday morning (their first day), they had a chance to catch up with Jay van Rensselaer, the … Continue reading…

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Jonas Platt

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Terry Carbone

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (American, 1791-1872). Jonas Platt, 1828. Oil on canvas, 35 15/16 x 29 7/16 in. (91.3 x 74.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, 85.23. By the mid-1820s, Samuel F. B. Morse finally had achieved in his portraits a more … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for February 2009: Mary Temple

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

We all know this feeling, right? When you walk into an exhibition and there’s one work that really stops you in your tracks? On a recent trip to Pittsburgh, it happened to me at the Mattress Factory‘s Inner and Outer … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art, full house!

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

In addition to our original partners (Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, V&A) we’ve now been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carnegie Museum of Art, … Continue reading…

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Burning Down the House Artist Focus: CARRIE MAE WEEMS

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Sarah Giovanniello

Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953). Untitled (Man Smoking/Malcolm X), from the Kitchen Table series, 1990. Gelatin silver print, edition 5 of 5. Brooklyn Museum, Caroline A. L. Pratt Fund, 1991.168 The exhibition Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist … Continue reading…

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Our First Week

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Richard Fazzini

At the end of last season we covered the baked brick building north of the Sacred Lake with plastic and sand to protect it and its plastered surfaces while we were gone. Our first job on January 17, our first … Continue reading…

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John Adams

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Terry Carbone

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (American, 1791-1872). Portrait of John Adams, 1816. Oil on canvas, 29 3/4 x 24 15/16 in. (75.5 x 63.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, 32.144. Samuel F. B. Morse’s unrelentingly factual portrait of the former president John Adams … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art…continued…and a deadline coming up!

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Wow, there was such a great response to my first post about prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art! Since that announcement, we’ve been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln … Continue reading…

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The First Day

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Mary McKercher

We flew up to Luxor from Cairo on January 13. The view out the window was absorbing: the mountains of the eastern desert always take my breath away. And the contrast between the fertile fields and the desert edge is … Continue reading…

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He Could Have Been a Contender . . .

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Terry Carbone

An Xiao’s concept for the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed employs the language of Morse code—one of many instances in which science and art have crossed paths. Relatively few people know that the great American inventor—and the inventor of Morse code—Samuel … Continue reading…

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How do you convince a free content advocate (like me) to join 1stfans?

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

As Will Cary notes in his post we’ve seen plenty of feedback with regard to the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed. Will and I had been saying we’d blog about our experiences, so here we go! I hit my head up … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed as a Membership benefit

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Will Cary

One bit of confusion that we have begun to see (<– 4 links) regarding the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed is the notion that we are “monetizing” twitter because we are “charging people” to access the feed. I think there are … Continue reading…

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The world through Goodyear’s eyes: photographs from the 1890’s to 1923 from the Brooklyn Museum Archives

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Deirdre Lawrence

Seeing the response to historic photographs that we have posted on Flickr Commons begs a look back on why we have these images and who created them. Being an art museum library and archives our mission is to collect and … Continue reading…

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Burning Down the House Artist Focus: NAYLAND BLAKE

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Sarah Giovanniello

Curator Maura Reilly installing Nayland Blake’s Untitled, 2003 in the galleries of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art with Supervising Maintainer Filippo Gentile, and Art Handler, Jason Grunwald. New York-based artist and Nayland Blake is without a doubt … Continue reading…

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Happy New Year from “The Fertile Goddess”

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

The latest exhibition in the Herstory Gallery, The Fertile Goddess, just opened on December 19, 2008. Imagine how delighted Sarah Giovanniello, Research Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and I were to see this decoration, which Museum art … Continue reading…

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