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Category Archives: Contemporary Art
What was that about the WPA?
For her Raw/Cooked exhibition, Supple Beat, Marela Zacarias has installed in the Museum’s lobby and Great Hall four site specific works, each based on one of the Williamsburg Murals. These works seduce on a purely visual level, but don’t stop … Continue reading
Out of Africa, 1926: Malvina Hoffman and a Senegalese Soldier
In his newly opened installation Rumination, Raw/Cooked artist Duron Jackson has included Senegalese Soldier(28.385), a remarkable work by the early-twentieth-century sculptor Malvina Hoffman. Placed in close proximity with Jackson’s Blackboard Paintings—abstracted aerial views of American prisons—Hoffman’s larger than life-sized bust … Continue reading
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree
Since the 1990s, Yoko Ono has created her work Wish Tree in locations all over world. In honor of Ono’s acceptance of the Brooklyn Museum’s 2012 Women in the Arts Award, we have installed this work in our third floor … Continue reading
Join us in Celebrating GO
It’s hard to believe we are here after dozens of artist and voter meetups throughout the summer; an exhilarating open studio weekend that resulted in 147,000 studio visits; nominations and curator studio visits, and a whirlwind installation schedule…our exhibition opens … Continue reading
Making Choices to Create an Exhibition
Once we had our group of the ten most nominated artists, Eugenie and I set out on our part of the collaboration. We visited the artists independently without preconceived ideas about the work we would see or the show it … Continue reading
Creating a Framework to Collaborate with the Public
You have been following us from the 1708 studios to 9,457 nominations to 10 nominees to the 5 featured artists. Let’s take a look at how we got here. Over the past year and a half, we discussed many ways … Continue reading
Going Gangnam Style in Support of Ai Weiwei
In late October, acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei and friends performed a parody of the “Gangnam Style” video by the South Korean rapper PSY. The video, which you can watch above, shows Ai dancing with colleagues at his Beijing studio. He … Continue reading
Our GO Featured Artists
Since our announcement of our top ten nominated artists in late September, Eugenie Tsai (John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art) and I have visited their studios in Brooklyn. We decided to each individually meet with the artists, and then discuss … Continue reading
Looking at Glass
Jean-Michel Othoniel has noted that he is fascinated and inspired by fragile glass objects that have survived for centuries, imbued with the unknown histories and desires of the people that have handled and protected them. We are fortunate to have … Continue reading
Your Ten Nominated Artists
After approximately 147,000 studio visits to 1,708 artists, and then 9,457 nominations, we have our top ten nominated artists. In alphabetical order: Aleksander Betko, Cobble Hill, painting and drawing Jonathan Blum, Park Slope, painting and printmaking Adrian Coleman, Fort Greene, … Continue reading
Moving Toward an Exhibition with 9,457 Nominations
As you saw in Shelley’s previous post, we were thrilled about the level of participation over the open studio weekend. At the same time, we remained anxious about how many of the 4,929 eligible voters (those who checked in to … Continue reading
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Open Studio Weekend Visitation Statistics
As the nomination phase of GO continues this week, now is a good time to review the weekend and share some statistics about weekend visitation rates. Here’s a brief rundown of what happened, and we’ll explain these figures in the … Continue reading
GO See Art in Brooklyn This Weekend!
Our borough-wide open studio weekend is finally just days away! On September 8th and 9th, more than 1800 artists across 46 neighborhoods in Brooklyn will open their studios to share their work with you from 11am to 7pm. We hope … Continue reading
Getting Beyond the Like Button
The open studio weekend is just 16 days away and as we get closer, it’s worth taking a look at some of the participatory design choices we’ve made and reasons why. Many people mistakenly think that GO is all about social media, that … Continue reading
Partnering with NYCHA for GO
GO is a project that’s rooted in community, but “community” is one of those words that can have a lot of different meanings. As Sharon and I conceptualized GO, we thought a lot about this—how is community defined for a … Continue reading
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