Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part III: Creation

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

An installation view of The Fertile Goddess intro panel and title taken for archival purposes by our ECAMEA Curatorial Assistant, Kathy Zurek-Doule. All this time, I had been researching each figurine type intensively in order to understand their original appearance, … Continue reading…

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The Installation of Reception

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

Through the generosity of Beth Rudin DeWoody, the Museum recently acquired a multiple component installation piece made by the artist Vadis Turner, which will be included as part of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The installation titled … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for August 2009: Lauren McCarthy

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Will Cary

The 1stfans Twitter Art Feed artist for August is Lauren McCarthy, a young artist who has already worn many hats. A self-described “artist/programmer/designer/person,” Lauren’s work explores the intersection of physical and virtual space. She has invented a tent that can … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn Museum iPhone App ver 1.3 released + API Lessons Learned + Going Open Source

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

  If you’ve already downloaded the Brooklyn Museum iPhone app (link opens iTunes), you may have noticed an update (or two) for it in the app store.  We are psyched to mention that version 1.3 was just released and has … Continue reading…

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Luce Center: Timex Night-Glo on Steroids

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Matthew Yokobosky

Last week we received a query via Twitter asking how we did the lighting in the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. This was a long-term design project that lasted from 2001 until the Center opened in 2005. At the … Continue reading…

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Sun Bleaching in the Sculpture Garden

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Caitlin Jenkins

What is the Brooklyn Museum’s important Arshile Gorky lithograph doing outdoors?  And why is it immersed in water?  I received these questions many times from museum visitors and employees who strolled by my light-bleaching set-up outside the building’s staff entrance … Continue reading…

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Male and Female Mummies: Bad Grammar, Bad X-rays, Bad Judgment

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Edward Bleiberg

It should not be so hard to tell a woman from a man. Yet three of the five male mummies from the Brooklyn Museum that were CT-scanned in the last eighteen months at North Shore University Hospital were at one … Continue reading…

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Shonibare at Play in the Period Rooms

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Judy Kim

Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play is a work that was made specifically for our period rooms. Last spring when Yinka Shonibare was in New York, he visited the Brooklyn Museum to meet with the relevant staff … Continue reading…

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Sufi-Inspired Artist Books

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Deirdre Lawrence

One of the great feelings I experience at the Brooklyn Museum is when I see a true connection between the Library and art collections here. This connection was felt recently at a public program showcasing the work of the widely-admired … Continue reading…

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Art Handlers Go Mobile with iPod Touch and ArtSee

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

If you read the blog, you know we talk about our web initiatives all the time, but we rarely discuss the work we do on internal projects.  The web side of the Technology Department is charged with developing the stuff … Continue reading…

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Mummy Transport

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Lisa Bruno

As some of you may have seen from the recent press coverage, we took four of our Egyptian human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned—short for computed tomography.  Although the bodies were well preserved with the … Continue reading…

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Monkey at the Brooklyn Museum!

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

We’ve been so jealous of @museummodernart for so long because they’ve had multiple visits from Monkey and we’ve had none. We watched as Monkey got famous and took in Shakespeare in the Park, the High Line, the AIC—all the time … Continue reading…

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The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part II: Planning

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

Last summer we met in storage for a “bonding” session with the figures we selected from the collection for the show, where Maura, Ellen Belcher (our consultant), and I talked at length about each individual object. Much of what came … Continue reading…

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5 Reasons to See Caillebotte By 5 July

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Judith F. Dolkart

Almost every day that the Caillebotte show has been open to the public, I have been in the galleries—to ponder the works, to give tours, and to talk to our fantastic guards about visitor response. (The guards can tell you … Continue reading…

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HBO’s True Blood team kindly answers our “Bird Lady” questions!

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

Many thanks are due to our faithful community. Their tweets helped us get in touch with @TrueBloodHBO, the official True Blood twitter feed and they set up a coast-to-coast conference call Tuesday evening between Suzuki Ingerslev, Production Designer for the … Continue reading…

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