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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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An Artist and his Model

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Richard Aste

So, now that you know Rossetti’s Silence is on view for a limited time in the Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court, let’s enhance your visit by getting to know the artist, his model, and the story behind this late Victorian masterpiece. Dante … Continue reading…

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Silence on View

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Richard Aste

Beginning today, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Silence, one of the Brooklyn Museum’s finest European works on paper, will be on view for the first time in nearly 40 years in the third-floor Beaux-Arts Court (the European paintings gallery). Dante Gabriel Rossetti … Continue reading…

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Object of the Month: May 2010: Infinity II (Shinso)

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Joan Cummins

Often as I walk through the Asian galleries, I see people sitting on the bench in front of this porcelain sculpture, just sort of blissing out.  It is indeed a beautiful object, insanely pristine with its pure white body and … Continue reading…

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Cross-posting the Collection to Wikimedia Commons and the Internet Archive

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Shelley Bernstein

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  it’s simply not enough to publish assets on our own website—we cannot expect people to come to www.brooklynmuseum.org and we need to be reaching out to communities on the web to … Continue reading…

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Object of the Month: April 2010: Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta

Posted on April 7, 2010 by Yekaterina Barbash

It is pretty timely that this month’s object for discussion is the Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta .  I absolutely adore this sculpture because it is one of the best examples of art made during the reign of Amunhotep … Continue reading…

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