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May 22, 2012: Let’s GO
Over the years many people have asked me if we'd do Click! again and my general response has been to say that we wouldn't do a… »May 17, 2012: Meet Another Charming Lady
All of us were a little sad to see “Bird Lady” go, even if it is only for a brief period of time, but we were able to take… »May 15, 2012: Santi Moix
Perched high on a lift in the fourth floor contemporary galleries, Brooklyn-based artist Santi Moix is drawing directly on the… »May 15, 2012: Connecting Cultures Through Books!
The presence of three books in the new Connecting Cultures installation gives me a welcome opportunity to talk about these… »May 11, 2012: A Sunset for 1stfans
It's been roughly three and half years since Will Cary and I started the 1stfans Membership program at the Museum; come July,… »
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Category Archives: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Know Your Museum-Sounds (Remembering the Triangle Fire)
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
Wikipop iPads and Visitor Metrics
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
Cents Sign Traveling From Broadway to Africa via Guadeloupe
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
An Invitation to The Dinner Party Institute
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
BklynFlow on GitHub
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
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)
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
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
Jen DeNike and PERFORMA are “happening” at First Saturday
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
The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part III: Creation
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
The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part II: Planning
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
The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Beginnings, Part I: Conception
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
The Fertile Goddess Comes to a Close
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
“Body Language: Brooklyn Museum”: A Mother’s Day Performance by the True Body Project
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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“Feminism Now: New Feminist Art Scholarship” Symposium Tomorrow!
Tomoko Sawada (Japanese, b. 1977). Untitled, from the OMIAI series, 2001. Chromogenic photographs. On Loan from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections in honor of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, L2007.8.6.11, .16. Photographs courtesy of the artist and … Continue reading


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