Tag Archives: collection

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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Four Bathing Beauties, Together for the First Time

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Richard Aste

Four Bathers by Degas and Bonnard offers an intimate look at bathing scenes by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) and Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) completed in Paris and the French Riviera between 1884 and 1925. This focused installation of four works drawn entirely … Continue reading…

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Skylar Fein and Abraham Lincoln: a look into Brooklyn’s collections

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Deirdre Lawrence

With the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War it is a good moment to look back through time and how Americans have been depicted over the years in both the objects we live with and through the popular press. … Continue reading…

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IDENTITY CRISIS RESOLVED

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Richard Aste

Last week at the Frick Collection in upper Manhattan, H. Perry Chapman, Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware and author of Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity, presented “Rembrandt & Dou: Rivalry in Self-Portrayal.” In a … Continue reading…

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Poetry Comes to our Collection Online

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month?  To celebrate, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s office is hosting Poem In Your Pocket Day and we are taking part. If you show up this Thursday, April 14th … Continue reading…

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There’s a New Girl in Town

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Richard Aste

Today an American beauty goes on view in the Museum’s European Beaux-Art Court. The Virgin by the Italo-American Futurist Joseph Stella joins the Court’s Old and Modern Masters on the northern wall nestled in between Renaissance portraits of women painted … Continue reading…

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Where in the Wikiverse is the Brooklyn Museum?

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

Today, we are releasing a new feature in the labs area of the collection online that reports on our recent project to cross-post no known copyright images to Wikimedia Commons.  When we started the project to cross-post all those images, … Continue reading…

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Photo Survey of Historic African Collection

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Kevin D. Dumouchelle

Careful watchers of the museum’s online image collections may have noticed some large new batches of African works begin to pop up over the last month. This summer, with the help of Connie Jang, an intern with the Digital Collections … Continue reading…

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Object of the Month: August 2010: Miscegenated Family Album

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Patrick Amsellem

It’s when a work of art is able to communicate on many different levels at the same time – when it can speak to audiences on both an emotional and intellectual level – that I often feel it’s the most … Continue reading…

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Hank Willis Thomas on View

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Patrick Amsellem

Last year I blogged about a great new acquisition, Hank Willis Thomas’ “Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America.” I am thrilled that we have now installed this series of 41 photographs on the Museum’s fifth floor. It is a … Continue reading…

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