Tag Archives: collection

All Geared Up for a Timely Repair

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Joannie Bottkol

For 19th-Century Modern, which opened last month, the conservation department undertook the cleaning and stabilization of many objects, among them the five-piece silvered bronze candlesticks and clock/thermometer set that forms the centerpiece of the exhibition. The set was created by … Continue reading…

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Refining the Russian Collection

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Richard Aste

When I arrived at the Brooklyn Museum in the spring of 2010, I began a careful review of the Russian holdings and within months my colleagues and I identified a core group of avant-garde paintings from 1860-1930, which led to … Continue reading…

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From Russia—To Brooklyn—With Love

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Richard Aste

The Brooklyn Museum celebrates for the first time in over eighty years its renowned collection of modern Russian paintings with its newest installation, Russian Modern. From its first modern Russian art acquisition in 1906—Vasily Vereshchagin’s raw depictions of the Russo-Turkish … Continue reading…

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A Tree Blossoms in Brooklyn

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Jakki Godfrey

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…

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On-the-Road Research, or What Curators Do On Their Summer Vacations

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Karen Sherry

One of the projects I’ve been working on is Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, an exhibition of about 100 of our pre-1945 American drawings and sketchbooks scheduled to open in March 2013. At this stage, I’m researching … Continue reading…

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African Innovations Now Open!

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

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…

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Elvis is in the building

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Kerith Koss

Elvis is at the Brooklyn Museum and not where you’d expect to find him—in the new installation of the Museum’s African galleries, African Innovations. Brooklyn’s Elvis is a ceremonial mask of the Nyau Society of the Chewa peoples, who reside … Continue reading…

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Please Touch

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Textiles are a crucial element to the story I wanted to tell in African Innovations. Immensely varied in media, form, content and use, textile arts are found in every corner of the continent. They have played important roles in the … Continue reading…

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Installation in Progress

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

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…

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Arts of Africa Gives Way to African Innovations

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Recent visitors to the museum may have noticed some increasingly dramatic changes to the first floor—first, a new series of walls began to rise in the South Gallery space beyond the Great Hall. As of this week, the African galleries … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn’s Semi-Cameo on Treme—Delving Deeper

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Thinking further about our unexpected cameo on Treme the other week, there are even further connections to our own collection that can be made to the Loma mask highlighted on the show. Despite the considerable geographic distance between them, the … Continue reading…

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“They got that from us” Brooklyn’s Semi-Cameo on Treme

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

I was recently alerted by Jenny and Shelley that our African collection got an unexpected shout out on a recent episode of Treme, HBO’s drama about post-Katrina New Orleans. Sure enough, in an episode entitled “What is New Orleans?” that … Continue reading…

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The British Are Coming!

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Karen Sherry

This portrait by the British painter Thomas Hudson has just been added to American Identities, the installation of the Museum’s world-renowned collections of American art. While these galleries display works of vast diversity in terms of date, medium, style, and … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn Museum API: Collections iPad App

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

Our collection data can now be found on the iPad courtesy of Wayne Bishop and his Art Collections app. The app uses our API and we’re pretty happy to see a developer pick up our data and run with it … Continue reading…

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Lady Gautseshenu goes to the Hospital

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Tina March

Yesterday, a team of curators, conservators, and art packers and handlers took the last of our human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned.  (See Lisa Bruno and Ed Bleiberg’s blogs about the previous mummies). Lady Gautseshenu, … Continue reading…

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