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Category Archives: Contemporary Art
What drew you to the Egyptian Galleries?
One morning in late September, I went to Lan Tuazon’s studio in Bushwick with Pierce Jackson, who is making the videos for Raw/Cooked. Lan was talking us through her sculptural combines, which are now on view in the Museum’s 3rd … Continue reading
Behind the Scenes on The Latino List
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
What’s the deal with the pumpkins?
If you have walked through Raw/Cooked: Kristof Wickman then you have probably noticed the abundance of cast pumpkins. As the Coordinator for Raw/Cooked, I had the pleasure of working closely with the artist on the exhibition and when all was said … Continue reading
Give a Flower, Share Your Experience
As Eugenie noted in her post, The Moving Garden is installed in our Rubin Pavilion and the artist invites the visitor to take a flower from the installation on the condition that the person takes a detour on the way … Continue reading
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The Power of Flowers
A long granite table top filled with roses now welcomes visitors as they enter the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway. You might be tempted to think that this spectacular new flower arrangement is part of a campaign to beautify the … Continue reading
How has your culture shaped your life and accomplishments?
All eyes will be on you this fall when you enter the Great Hall and encounter the twenty-five massive photographic portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders that comprise The Latino List. Those of you who remember his incredibly popular and thought-provoking 2008 … Continue reading
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A Tree Blossoms in Brooklyn
In preparation for the exhibition Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective, conservators took part in preparing and installing Blossom, 2010, a recent acquisition to the collection. Blossom is a mixed-media installation depicting a life-size sculpture of an oak tree extending out … Continue reading
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
Judging from the aphorisms “a penny saved is a penny earned” or “a penny for your thoughts,” the copper cent at one time possessed a degree of value that it has since lost, but there’s a place for those seemingly worthless … Continue reading
Skylar Fein and Abraham Lincoln: a look into Brooklyn’s collections
With the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War it is a good moment to look back through time and how Americans have been depicted over the years in both the objects we live with and through the popular press. … Continue reading
reOrder: Breaking Ground
Some may have seen my post in December about my visit to a drafty construction site in Manhattan to view Situ Studio’s full-scale mock up related to the firm’s reOrder project. The mock up consisted of one of the column … Continue reading
reOrder Takes Shape
As many may know Situ Studio, a Brooklyn based architectural and fabrication firm, has been preparing for their installation reORDER, which will be presented here in conjunction with the completed renovation of the Museum’s Great Hall, March 5th 2011. Situ … Continue reading
Collaborations, Continued
The current exhibition Andy Warhol: The Last Decade features some remarkable paintings that Warhol made with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente in the 1980s. With the earliest of these, one artist would begin a canvas and then it was circulated … Continue reading
Object of the Month: August 2010: Miscegenated Family Album
It’s when a work of art is able to communicate on many different levels at the same time – when it can speak to audiences on both an emotional and intellectual level – that I often feel it’s the most … Continue reading
Hank Willis Thomas on View
Last year I blogged about a great new acquisition, Hank Willis Thomas’ “Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America.” I am thrilled that we have now installed this series of 41 photographs on the Museum’s fifth floor. It is a … Continue reading
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