Monthly Archives: April 2009

More on mummies…

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

In addition to continuing to x-ray the animal mummies,  the Conservation Lab has started preparing to send several human mummies to North Shore University Hospital. Some readers of this blog may remember that we took the Mummy Demetrius to North … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for May 2009: Tracey Moffatt

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Will Cary

Did you know that we have 1stfans residing in 17 countries around the world?  Outside of the United States, we have the most 1stfan representation in Australia, so we couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that Australian-born Tracey Moffatt is … Continue reading…

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Re-making the mess

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Have you ever had one of those days where everything falls into place? When Eugenie Tsai blogged about Valerie Hegarty’s Fallen Bierstadt back in October, she mentioned we needed to do a follow-up post with our paintings conservator, Carolyn Tomkiewicz.  … Continue reading…

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Not just another Saturday night…

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Will Cary

It was about 4:30pm on Saturday when Shelley called me. Interestingly enough, I was here at the Museum giving a talk to our Student Guides on Membership and leading a group from my college’s alumni association through our Caillebotte exhibition. … Continue reading…

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An Important Letter to our Friends

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Judith Paska

Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold Lehman has announced a series of measures the Museum is undertaking to address the current—and what may likely be ongoing—economic crisis. The measures proposed are conceived so that our public and our visitors can continue to … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn Museum API: the iPhone app

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

If anyone needed convincing that an API might be a good idea, this news might just do it for you.  A few weeks ago, we approved an API key for Adam Shackelford, a Brooklyn-based developer, to create an iPhone app. … Continue reading…

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Google, Meet the Brooklyn Museum Posse

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Mike Dillon

Chances are, if you’ve heard of the Internet, you’ve also heard of Google and chances are pretty good that you’ve set up an e-mail account with them as well. Personally, I’ve got three, and that doesn’t even take into account … Continue reading…

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What’s Happening Today?—The Museum Calendar Gets Upgraded

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Jen Borkowski

If you’ve checked out the Museum’s calendar in the last twelve hours or so, you may have noticed how different (or, really, how not different) it is. That’s right, our calendar now looks like it fits with the rest of … Continue reading…

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Bringing Sun K. Kwak’s Enfolding 280 Hours to Brooklyn

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Judy Kim

People have been asking how I learned of Sun K. Kwak. I first noticed Sun’s work well over a year ago through the gallery that represents her. I obtained basic information about Sun and looked at installation shots of her … Continue reading…

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The results are in!

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Edna R. Russmann

I have been interested to see the results of our online quiz. I think the main problem with it was the software we had to used from MyStudio, which allowed only one view, and, more importantly, didn’t permit closeups. One … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 4: The Stats

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Erin Sweeney

My role in Wikipedia Loves Art was solely as a processor of data. I was not involved with the creation or any of the planning of the contest. That being said, here are some project statistics as well as my … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 3: Almost done

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Erin is going to blog tomorrow about her own take on the process and some additional statistics, but here are just a few of the cleanup issues we’ve been dealing with on a pool of 13,000 images. Machine Tagging, Captioning, … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art: Lessons Learned Part 2: Competition

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This next part of the story will take you through the actual competition which was held during February 2009. I admit…index cards…say it with me now…FAIL! (now don’t we all feel better?) “We ask that you shoot each work twice. … Continue reading…

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