Monthly Archives: January 2011

So How Do You Set Up a Tipi?

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Lisa Bruno

That’s exactly the question we were asking ourselves when Nancy Rosoff and Susan Kennedy Zeller organizing Curators for Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains put not one but four tipis on the checklist.   The exhibition opens February 18, 2011 continuing … Continue reading…

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Looking for Adhesives and Identifying Binders in the Book of the Dead Using FTIR

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Caitlin Jenkins

Another scientific analytical technique commonly used in art conservation is called Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy, or FTIR.  The Brooklyn Museum’s Paper Conservation Lab employed this technique to continue analysis of the Brooklyn Museum’s Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of … Continue reading…

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Analyzing Pigments in the Book of the Dead Using XRF Spectroscopy

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Caitlin Jenkins

One of the many scientific analytical techniques used in art conservation is called X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, or XRF.  The Paper Conservation Lab here at the Brooklyn Museum is using this technique to study the Brooklyn Museum’s Book of the Dead … Continue reading…

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The Second Week

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Richard Fazzini

On January 15 we finished removing the baulk stub over the remains of the southern boundary wall of the Taharqa Gate approach. In this view to the northeast, you can now see that we have a single, wide wall that … Continue reading…

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There’s a New Girl in Town

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Richard Aste

Today an American beauty goes on view in the Museum’s European Beaux-Art Court. The Virgin by the Italo-American Futurist Joseph Stella joins the Court’s Old and Modern Masters on the northern wall nestled in between Renaissance portraits of women painted … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn’s Finest: Peter Downes

Posted on January 19, 2011 by J Palmieri

For my second installment of Brooklyn’s Finest, I wanted to approach someone with whom I work closely with in the Director’s Office. Everyone knows his name, his face, and may have even heard his billowing voice beckon from down the … Continue reading…

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Wikipop iPads and Visitor Metrics

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

Now that Seductive Subversion has closed, it’s time to look at the Wikipop project and report on what we’ve seen in the galleries over the run of the exhibition.  In general, we believe this was one of our more successful interactives in … Continue reading…

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Season 25 is underway

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Mary McKercher

We began what will be mainly a study season on January 11 with the traditional cutting of the camel thorn. Fortunately there isn’t much as we had arranged with the SCA and Reis Farouk to have our part of the … Continue reading…

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Cards from the Library Catalogs – Want some?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Deirdre Lawrence

One of the results of projects to bring our Libraries and Archives into the digital world is that we have boxes of cards—mostly typewritten or computer generated—available for the taking and ready to be transformed into a second life.  Since the Library … Continue reading…

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Know Your Museum-Sounds (object cleaning)

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Danny Tuss

Conservation Object Cleaning by Know Your Museum

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