Monthly Archives: November 2011

Behind the Scenes on The Latino List

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Lisa Small

If you’ve visited The Latino List exhibition, you may have wondered how Timothy Greenfield-Sanders creates such monumental photographs. It all starts with the camera. For over 30 years Greenfield-Sanders’s signature tools have been the large-format camera and the large-format negatives … Continue reading…

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Cover Guy: Paul Cadmus by Luigi Lucioni

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Terry Carbone

This face may look familiar to you . . . ! As our signature image for Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties. Luigi Lucioni’s stellar portrait of his friend and colleague, Paul Cadmus, is reproduced on BIG posters … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #6: Subconscious Effects

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Beau Sievers

In the previous post I closed by noting that depending on what participants were asked to do, visual complexity could affect their ratings. Indeed, we found that the effect of complexity changed depending on the task completed before providing a … Continue reading…

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Calling Rapaljes, Rapeljes, Raplees and all descendants!

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Lisa Small

Get ready for some surprising encounters when you visit the Brooklyn Museum’s beloved period rooms this February, when several of the rooms will be the site of a group show called Playing House, which I’ve been working on with curator … Continue reading…

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It’s important to draw in the Museum

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Maya Valladares

Sculptors and painters draw constantly. Architects, botanists, designers, and many a traveling student have been known to constantly have a sketchbook in hand. But what about teachers? Dancers?  Surgeons? What about you? I spent a recent Saturday at an inter-disciplinary … Continue reading…

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Project CHART at the Brooklyn Museum

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Deirdre Lawrence

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been an important supporter of several initiatives to make the Brooklyn Museum’s collection much more accessible to a wider audience. One good example of this initiative is the M-LEAD Project which has … Continue reading…

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Split Second Stats #5: Complexity

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Beau Sievers

Complexity is an important factor in the evaluation of art. In all of the previous Split Second blog posts I’ve talked about how the complexity of artworks dramatically affected participants’ reactions. But I never explained what, exactly, was meant by … Continue reading…

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