Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Week of the Brick

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Mary McKercher

Tracing mud brick takes skill, patience and lots of scraping and brushing. It is paying off for Ayman and his team, though. By Tuesday, they had already uncovered quite a bit of brick in the center of the square north … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for February 2010: Man Bartlett

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Will Cary

February’s 1stfans Twitter Art Feed artist is Brooklyn’s own Man Bartlett. Man’s work includes drawings (mostly of circles), paintings, sculpture, and, as those on twitter may know, performance. Shelley mentioned Man’s “#BestNonBuy” project a couple weeks ago, and this week … Continue reading…

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Patricia Cronin and Harriet Hosmer Meet Across Generations

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Sarah Giovanniello

In the Herstory Gallery, Patricia Cronin’s luminous watercolors series has captivated many visitors since the exhibition opened last June. This is the last weekend to catch the wonderful Patricia Cronin: Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found in the Herstory Gallery before … Continue reading…

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We’re up and running

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Richard Fazzini

   On Sunday, Abdel Aziz began looking for more of the mud brick found last week. He had no luck, as the northern part had been completely destroyed by the Roman pit and extensive animal burrow we found in 2008. … Continue reading…

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Teaming up with 20×200 and Valerie Hegarty for 1stfans

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Will Cary

I grow more convinced every day that unique partnerships and creative incentives are the key to acquiring and retaining members. With 1stfans, Shelley and I spent the last year watching as this program, which started as an idea, became a … Continue reading…

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Highlights from the Pacific Islands Collection on the Web

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

In the spirit of recent discussions about making our collection more available to view online, I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight a small but important cache of updated photographs and information relating to our Pacific Islands collection. The … Continue reading…

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The Start of Another Season

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Mary McKercher

The Brooklyn Museum Mut Expedition’s 2010  season of fieldwork is just getting underway. Once again we will be posting a blog each Friday describing the work of the past week. We hope the blog will help viewers understand the complexities … Continue reading…

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Working Guidelines for the Copyright Project

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Deborah Wythe

“Any analysis of ownership and duration must be performed on a case-by-case basis for each work.” Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives & Museums. Peter Hirtle, Emily Hudson and Andrew T. Kenyon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell … Continue reading…

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Little Images, Big Art

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Arlene Yu

Some of you may have noticed how, over time, some of the small images on our site—the ones with the “Why is this image so small?” caption – have morphed into larger, downloadable ones. This has happened as we’ve found … Continue reading…

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Copyright is complicated

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Deborah Wythe

Copyright is complicated. What’s protected? What’s not? And it’s even more complicated for art, where the work may not be dated and there are questions about whether it was “published” and what “publication” means. And it’s a legal matter, which … Continue reading…

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Doing the Right Thing

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Did you know that today is the first annual World’s Fair Use Day? We’ve been toiling over an ongoing project to better identify the rights status of objects in our online collection, so with World’s Fair Use Day it seemed … Continue reading…

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