Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly, co-curators of the Center’s inaugural exhibition, recorded the introduction to the Global Feminisms audio tour today. This tour, free to our visitors and delivered via cell phone, will feature many of the artists in the exhibition responding to their relationship to feminism.
Cell phone audio has helped us in many ways. One of the nice things about the new production method is that tour stops can be recorded via phone, similar to leaving a standard voice mail message. Since the show consists of work by approximately eighty women artists from around the world, we found this aspect incredibly helpful in producing our tour. We could send questions to many of the artists and ask them to record their answers via phone. We didn’t have to worry about arranging for a studio offsite or asking them to make a special trip to do a recording.
If we can arrange to do the recording onsite, the quality is often more predictable, so we try and take advantage of this when we can. For this session, Maura and Linda also took the opportunity to try out a new shade of MAC Cosmetics lipstick, Plumful.
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We started off this week with a full round of recordings for The Dinner Party audio tour. This tour, free to our visitors and delivered via cell phone, will feature a range of voices, including curators, educators, scholars, and others.
Judy Chicago dropped by to record the introduction.
Susan Zeller, the Brooklyn Museum’s Assistant Curator for the Arts of the Americas, recorded the piece for the Sacajawea place setting.
Radiah Harper, Vice Director for Education, recorded one of Sojourner Truth’s most famous speeches “Ain’t I a Woman.”
Bob Nardi, our resident sound wizard, set us up and watched over the recordings in progress. Thanks, Bob!
As we install our upcoming exhibition Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses, the Museum’s conservation team has been working on several of the objects that will be part of the exhibition. Check out what Jakki Godfrey has to say about this Egyptian copper alloy statue of Wadjet in her Dig Diary Blog posting.
A fully illustrated catalogue, published by the Brooklyn Museum in association with Merrell, accompanies the exhibition Global Feminisms. Reflecting the global reach of the exhibition, the catalogue features essays by the two organizing curators, Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, along with essays by an international team of critics and scholars that includes: N’Goné Fall, an independent curator born and raised in Senegal; Geeta Kapur, an independent art critic and curator in New Delhi; Elisabeth Lebovici, a Paris-based independent scholar and art critic; Charlotta Kotik, John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum; Joan Kee, an independent critic, curator, and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art of East Asia; Michiko Kasahara, Chief Curator of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Director of the TEOR/éTica art project in San Jose, Costa Rica. The 304-page book features more than 250 color illustrations as well as biographies of the 86 participating artists. Pre-Order online now!
As part of New York University’s International Symposium on the Arts in Society, Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly will be speaking together about Global Feminisms next Sunday, February 25, from 3:25 to 4:25 p.m. at the NYU Center for Art and Public Policy. Full details, including additional speakers, schedule, and directions can be found here.
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