Category Archives: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Catherine J. Morris

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…

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Know Your Museum-Sounds (Remembering the Triangle Fire)

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Danny Tuss

Image Courtesy of Sarah Gentile Remembering the Triangle Fire by Know Your Museum March 25, 2011 marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Brooklyn Museum staff will join the world in ringing a bell at 4:45PM to commemorate this … Continue reading…

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Wikipop iPads and Visitor Metrics

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

Now that Seductive Subversion has closed, it’s time to look at the Wikipop project and report on what we’ve seen in the galleries over the run of the exhibition.  In general, we believe this was one of our more successful interactives in … Continue reading…

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Cents Sign Traveling From Broadway to Africa via Guadeloupe

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Lisa Bruno

When I first saw Chryssa’s neon sculpture in storage in late 2004, the object was in an unexhibitable state, missing the two end pieces of the Plexiglas box, with scratches and small losses on the existing sides of the box.  We … Continue reading…

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An Invitation to The Dinner Party Institute

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Cheri Ehrlich

This summer I had the opportunity to further investigate ways to teach students about feminist artworks from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection when I participated in “An Invitation to The Dinner Party Institute.” Held at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, the Institute … Continue reading…

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BklynFlow on GitHub

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Beau Sievers

The essential experience of Wikipedia is, for me, one of deep focus without effort — of getting lost in thought without feeling like I’m really getting lost. I think this is one of the most compelling and profound user experiences … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia and the Women of Pop Art

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Rebecca Shaykin

I was thrilled when Shelley and Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, approached me about working on this Wikipedia project for Seductive Subversion.  Knowing that Wikipedia is often one’s first, if not last, source … Continue reading…

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Welcome to WikiPop, 25 Articles in English (on iPads in the Gallery)

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Seductive Subversion opens today and the show takes a look at the impact of women artists on the traditionally male-dominated field of Pop art.  The exhibition team wanted to keep things simple in the gallery—a spare look, so the pop … Continue reading…

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Patricia Cronin and Harriet Hosmer Meet Across Generations

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Sarah Giovanniello

In the Herstory Gallery, Patricia Cronin’s luminous watercolors series has captivated many visitors since the exhibition opened last June. This is the last weekend to catch the wonderful Patricia Cronin: Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found in the Herstory Gallery before … Continue reading…

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Jen DeNike and PERFORMA are “happening” at First Saturday

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Sarah Giovanniello

Academic Programs Coordinator Eleanor Whitney and artist Jen DeNike conduct a walkthrough of the Rubin Pavillion and Lobby in preparation for TWIRL. For months, the city has been eagerly anticipating PERFORMA, the performance art biennial that is literally “happening” all … Continue reading…

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The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part III: Creation

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

An installation view of The Fertile Goddess intro panel and title taken for archival purposes by our ECAMEA Curatorial Assistant, Kathy Zurek-Doule. All this time, I had been researching each figurine type intensively in order to understand their original appearance, … Continue reading…

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The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part II: Planning

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

Last summer we met in storage for a “bonding” session with the figures we selected from the collection for the show, where Maura, Ellen Belcher (our consultant), and I talked at length about each individual object. Much of what came … Continue reading…

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The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part I: Conception

Posted on June 10, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

An installation view of The Fertile Goddess in the Herstory Gallery. Photograph by Christine Gant. As we deinstall The Fertile Goddess exhibition, it seems appropriate to reflect on a very good question that numerous visitors have asked me: how do … Continue reading…

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The Fertile Goddess Comes to a Close

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Madeleine Cody

Excavated examples of figurines such as this one from northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Syria, made during the Late Halaf Period in the late fifth millennium B.C.E., have been found, often in groups, among domestic refuse. We were thrilled to … Continue reading…

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“Body Language: Brooklyn Museum”: A Mother’s Day Performance by the True Body Project

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Sarah Giovanniello

The True Body Project. Photograph courtesy True Body Project. Copyright Esther Freeman, True Body class of 2005. This Mother’s Day program has grown out of a yearlong collaboration between the Brooklyn Museum and the True Body Project. Originally based in … Continue reading…

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