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June 11, 2013: Moving Toward a Conversation
If you've ever heard me speak at conferences you know that one of our most successful technology projects is also one of our… »June 6, 2013: The Reinstallation of the Asian and Arts of the Islamic World Galleries
If you’ve visited the second floor of the Museum recently, you may have noticed that it looks considerably more bare than… »June 5, 2013: George Grosz, Otto Dix and World War I
In my last post, I highlighted several of the many prints in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection that, like those now on view in… »May 30, 2013: German Expressionist Prints at the Brooklyn Museum
The current exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art features the politically… »May 7, 2013: Looking for love?
I've been at the Brooklyn Museum for about a year-and-a-half now, which is also as long as I've been a resident of our fair… »
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Category Archives: Design
Advances in Exhibition Casework
In my last post, I discussed the wall murals and the state-of-the-art photo enlargements in Connecting Cultures. Today, I’d like to talk about a few other firsts that make this a cutting edge Museum display. Connecting Cultures is the first … Continue reading
The Big Picture(s)
As Kevin mentioned in his last post, Connecting Cultures is presented in thematic sections: Places, People, and Things, in addition to an Introductory Center. Since the artwork was curated cross-collection, the question for me as a designer was how to … Continue reading
African Innovations Now Open!
After many months of object review, checklist creation, cross-departmental consultation, budgeting, conservation, design, research, writing, photography, editing, construction, painting, installation, and lighting, I am pleased to report that African Innovations is now open to the public. Our ace Technology team … Continue reading
Installation in Progress
One of the many adaptations that moving the African collection into the South Gallery on the First Floor has required has been adjusting to a space that is both smaller and considerably more open than the old Arts of Africa … Continue reading
Posted in Arts of Africa, Design
Tagged africaninnovations, collection, Design, exhibitions, reinstallation
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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
Gearing up to install Who Shot Rock
Since early 2007, I’ve been working with the noted photo historian Gail Buckland to create Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History. It’s hard to believe, now 2 years later, the show’s about to open on … Continue reading
Luce Center: Timex Night-Glo on Steroids
Last week we received a query via Twitter asking how we did the lighting in the Luce Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. This was a long-term design project that lasted from 2001 until the Center opened in 2005. At the … Continue reading
Share your Michael Jackson Story
Thursday afternoon, around noon, I was doing an advance press interview with Modern Painter magazine about the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll, which opens here at the Brooklyn Museum in October. One of the questions the writer asked me … Continue reading
Please sit down
You’ve been walking around a museum for several hours looking at hundreds of artworks, and want to take a break and sit for a minute. . . . whether to chat with a friend, rest your feet, or to spend … Continue reading
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Preparing to Click!
With the opening of Click! rapidly approaching, I have been asked to describe my approach in designing and mounting this particular exhibition. It is important to note that although this exhibition is comprised entirely of photographs, it is not foremost … Continue reading
Who Shot Rock will ROCK
On October 23, 2009, we’re launching a major exhibition, Who Shot Rock: Photographers of Rock and Roll. Who Shot Rock will be guest curated by the distinguished photography historian Gail Buckland, who began her career in the early 1970s collaborating … Continue reading
Posted in Contemporary Art, Design, Photography
Tagged exhibitions, first saturday, whoshotrock
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Painter Marie Roberts Riffs on Egyptian Sculpture
From Winter to Summer 2008, the Museum’s longterm installation in the 3rd floor Beaux Arts court ambulatory, About Time: 700 Years of European Painting will be taken off view. The reason is that the glass block floor of the court … Continue reading
How do you light Light?
A major factor influencing Brushed with Light‘s design was due to the delicate nature of watercolors themselves. Because the works are light sensitive it is required that they be exhibited in low light. This being said, a dim room is … Continue reading

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