Category Archives: Arts of Asia

Split Second Thank You

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

The online evaluation phase of Split Second: Indian Paintings came to a close yesterday evening and now it’s time to say thanks to everyone who gave us some of their time to help us build the show that will open this summer. … Continue reading…

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Next up, what you see is what you get.

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

This post continues the discussion about the tool we developed for Split Second.  Once you get past stressing and (possibly) scrolling in the timed trial, the tool asks you to slow down and consider a work in various ways prior to … Continue reading…

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Stressing and Scrolling in a Blink

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the things we wanted to do with Split Second is talk about the tool that we developed for the online activity.  Much like the evaluation tool we developed for Click! A Crowd Curated Exhibition, a lot of thought … Continue reading…

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What do you see in a split-second?

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

Today, we are launching Split Second: Indian Paintings and it’s something I’ve been excited about for quite a while. Split Second is an opportunity to facilitate a collaboration between our curators and our online community using technology and the web to … Continue reading…

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Object of the Month: May 2010: Infinity II (Shinso)

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Joan Cummins

Often as I walk through the Asian galleries, I see people sitting on the bench in front of this porcelain sculpture, just sort of blissing out.  It is indeed a beautiful object, insanely pristine with its pure white body and … Continue reading…

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Beautiful Asian Landscapes on View for 2009

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Joan Cummins

Museums are full of small-scale changes of exhibition that are worth seeing but easily missed because they don’t get any publicity. Sometimes it’s as simple as replacing one of our usual displays with a rarely-seen object because the better-known piece … Continue reading…

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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part VII

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Joan Cummins

I can’t believe that it’s been more than a year since my last posting on this topic. I guess I got distracted by other tasks. I was recently asked to “wrap it up,” so here it goes… In my first … Continue reading…

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Last chance to catch our Add-Art show!

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Last week I blogged about our participation in Add-Art, the plug-in for Firefox that blocks ads and replaces them with art. We just got an e-mail from Steve Lambert reporting that Add-Art has been downloaded thousands of times since the … Continue reading…

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Mashing-up Hiroshige to block ads and Add-Art!

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

What in the world am I talking about?? Brooklyn-based artist Steve Lambert has developed a plug-in for the Firefox browser that block ads and replaces them with art. There’s a lot more about Add-Art (and how great it is) over … Continue reading…

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Celebrating Spring in the Japanese Style

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Joan Cummins

Stepping out of the Eastern Parkway subway station this morning, I was greeted by the most amazing sight: the cherry trees in front of the Museum were bursting with big, puffy pink blossoms. On Friday they had been all brown … Continue reading…

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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part VI

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Joan Cummins

The search for an object to purchase in honor of the soon-to-be-retired Curator of Asian Art began more than eight months before I arrived at the Brooklyn Museum, so I’m a little foggy on all the details of the earliest … Continue reading…

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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part V

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Joan Cummins

Armed with the “wish list” and approximate budget I described in my previous entries, the team of curators and trustees who were interested in finding a suitable object to acquire in honor of Amy Poster went out into the market. … Continue reading…

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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part IV

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Joan Cummins

I have been discussing the process of acquiring a new masterpiece for the collection, and in my first installment, I introduced the object, a bronze image of Shiva from southern India. This sculpture was cast by the master artisans who … Continue reading…

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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part III

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Joan Cummins

Last time I wrote about how we happened to have the money and the initiative to look for a major new acquisition for the Asian collection. This time, I’m going to talk about how we developed a shopping list before … Continue reading…

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Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part II

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Joan Cummins

In my previous entry, I introduced a wonderful object, an Indian bronze of Shiva from the tenth century. I am tracing the way that this work of art entered the Brooklyn Museum’s collection in 2007, offering an introduction to the … Continue reading…

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