As Arty Facts and the Gallery/Studio program celebrates their twenty-fifth anniversary this year, I thought it would be a great time to sit down with Nina Pelaez, who has been participating in Brooklyn Museum programs since she was four. In … Continue reading…

For my second installment of Brooklyn’s Finest, I wanted to approach someone with whom I work closely with in the Director’s Office. Everyone knows his name, his face, and may have even heard his billowing voice beckon from down the … Continue reading…

One of the great things about doing an interview for Brooklyn’s Finest is the chance for me chat for awhile with a colleague whose path I may not generally cross on a day-to-day basis. For December, I was curious to … Continue reading…

As this is the last edition of Brooklyn’s Finest that I’ll be authoring, I wanted to feature a different kind of Museum staff member here—a longtime Museum volunteer. The first time I met Elizabeth Franks was several years ago during … Continue reading…

When I sat down to talk to Matthew Yokobosky to ask him about his job here as Chief Designer, he told me that the first question people usually ask him is, “So, you pick the art?” Though Matthew did, in … Continue reading…

It’s that time of year again: the massive stage is going up in the Museum’s back parking lot, which means the West Indian-American Day Parade and Carnival is right around the corner. In light of the upcoming revelry this weekend, … Continue reading…

For this month’s edition of Brooklyn’s Finest, I spoke to Gilbert Moore, operator of the Museum’s freight elevator. Gilbert was recommended to me for this feature by several different staff members who had discovered some interesting tidbits about his past … Continue reading…

This month’s edition of Brooklyn’s Finest features Keith Duquette, a longtime staff member (23 years!) whose role as Library Preservation Associate ensures the physical well-being of many rare and fragile holdings of the Museum’s Libraries and Archives. What he does … Continue reading…

It’s time for second installment of Brooklyn’s Finest, where you can meet a different member of the Brooklyn Museum staff every month. Today we’ll meet Bob “Media Guru” Nardi, who works in our Technology department and produces the behind-the-scenes films … Continue reading…

I recently came across the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s excellent “Meet the MIA” set on Flickr, and I couldn’t help but go through all the photos in one sitting. No, I wasn’t procrastinating; it was just a fun way to … Continue reading…