Monthly Archives: May 2009

Brooklyn Museum API: the iPhone app released on iTunes

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This is a rare weekend blog post from us, but we found out that Brooklyn Museum iPhone app hit iTunes and, well, we just can’t contain ourselves—yay! If you read this blog, you may remember this app is a product … Continue reading…

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The Fertile Goddess Comes to a Close

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

Excavated examples of figurines such as this one from northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Syria, made during the Late Halaf Period in the late fifth millennium B.C.E., have been found, often in groups, among domestic refuse. We were thrilled to … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for June 2009: Nick Fortunato

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Will Cary

Nick Fortunato is the second artist selected via the open call for the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed. Similar to An Xiao’s work with Morse Code, Nick’s proposal for the feed explores the delivery of news and evolution of communication through … Continue reading…

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When Lions and Dragons Fly

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Jakki Godfrey

In preparation for renovation to the glass corridor roof, two of the museum’s exterior architectural elements, a stone dragon and a zinc lion, needed to be temporarily relocated for safekeeping.     The dragon is carved from limestone and although the … Continue reading…

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Reinstalling the Arts of the Islamic World

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Ladan Akbarnia

For those of you who have been missing the arts of the Islamic world (or wondering what it is you’ve been missing), we are almost finished with our reinstallation of the past several weeks. The galleries had been a sandy … Continue reading…

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Dash Snow

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Patrick Amsellem

The Museum recently acquired some great new photography. Much of it will be on view this coming August when we open a new show with material from the Contemporary Collection. In this delicate group of black and white photographs, Dash … Continue reading…

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Crowdsourcing the Clean-Up with Freeze Tag!

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

As most of our readers know, we encourage tagging on our online collection and we created Tag! You’re It to make that contribution more fun and more relevant.  We’ve been surprised at the tagging that has taken place, how much … Continue reading…

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The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC): Towards Radical Collaboration

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Lily Pregill

Librarians are natural collaborators—we share materials through interlibrary loan, data through cataloging cooperatives, and our subject and technical expertise on numerous listservs and professional committees—but moving beyond these traditional modes of collaboration is challenging. Collaboration is hard because it often … Continue reading…

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An Adventurous Painting

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the things that I love about museums that have blogs is how easy it can be is to get a hold of counterparts when you need something.  In the most recent instance of this, we were able to … Continue reading…

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Sarah Baley

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Patrick Amsellem

Sarah Baley’s show “Bois” opened at Collette Blanchard Gallery on the Lower East Side last Thursday night and we are very happy to have this image by Sarah in the collection. Sarah Baley (American, born 1969).  Dug, 2005. From the … Continue reading…

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Museum Membership and the N.B.A.

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Will Cary

I’ve been watching the N.B.A. a lot lately, and not just because the playoffs are going on and I’m a huge basketball fan. I’m also watching the N.B.A. as a league, which is, like many businesses, struggling right now. I’ve … Continue reading…

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Walt Whitman and the Arts in Brooklyn: A Commemoration in the Brooklyn Museum Library

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Deirdre Lawrence

We are very proud of the fact that Walt Whitman not only lived and worked in Brooklyn but that he had a direct connection to this institution in its early days as a library. This past Saturday we had a … Continue reading…

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Thothirdes

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

Thothirdes may be familiar to those of you who have seen her on display in the 3rd floor Egyptian Galleries.  She was deinstalled and brought up to the lab this week so that we could prepare her for a trip … Continue reading…

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“Body Language: Brooklyn Museum”: A Mother’s Day Performance by the True Body Project

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Sarah Giovanniello

The True Body Project. Photograph courtesy True Body Project. Copyright Esther Freeman, True Body class of 2005. This Mother’s Day program has grown out of a yearlong collaboration between the Brooklyn Museum and the True Body Project. Originally based in … Continue reading…

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A visit from artist Seher Shah

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Eugenie Tsai

Seher Shah recently stopped by the Brooklyn Museum to see her large drawing Jihad Pop Progressions 5 – Interior Courtyard 2, 2007 on view in the fourth floor Contemporary galleries. Seher Shah (Pakistani, b. 1975). Interior Courtyard 2, 2007. Graphite … Continue reading…

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