We’ve been on a roll the last few months on the Twitter Art Feed by featuring the work of our fellow 1stfans members, and this month will be no exception. In November, the Twitter Art Feed artist will be Brooklyn … Continue reading…

One of the great things that we’ve discovered through the Twitter Art Feed is how many of our very own 1stfans have wanted to create projects to share specifically with this community. So following last month’s project by Museum Nerd, … Continue reading…

This month on the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed artist, we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to feature one of our very own 1stfans: the anonymous, yet notorious, Twitter personality known as @MuseumNerd. If you’re one of the over 24,000 followers … Continue reading…

This month on the Twitter Art Feed, we’re presenting the work of Brooklyn Museum staff member, Danny Tuss. Danny is assistant to the Chief Curator and, on a daily basis, works as a curatorial assistant for all of the curatorial … Continue reading…

July’s Twitter Art Feed artist is Brian Piana, who, in his own words, creates works “from the Internet, for the Internet,” several of which used Twitter as their base. While Brian often uses Twitter as a source for his works, … Continue reading…

June’s 1stfans artist is Mike Monteiro, an artist whose work we discovered through our friends at 20×200.com. We were initially attracted to Mike’s work because of his strong use of text: his striking black and white paintings illustrate maxims which … Continue reading…

May’s 1stfans artist for the Twitter Art Feed is Odessa Begay, who has probably merged “twitter” and “art” in the most literal way by illustrating celebrity tweets. Begay, who’s a Brooklynite, has done a tremendous job taking single tweets and … Continue reading…

After a month of staff tweets (feel free to provide feedback below!), Shelley and I have a great few months of artists tweets lined up for 1stfans, beginning this month with Joanie San Chirico. I continue to be surprised by … Continue reading…

We’re going to try something different for the March edition of the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed. Instead of featuring an artist, we’re going to feature Jennifer Bantz, who is the Interpretive Materials Manager here at the Museum. We have two … Continue reading…

February’s 1stfans Twitter Art Feed artist is Brooklyn’s own Man Bartlett. Man’s work includes drawings (mostly of circles), paintings, sculpture, and, as those on twitter may know, performance. Shelley mentioned Man’s “#BestNonBuy” project a couple weeks ago, and this week … Continue reading…

1stfans is a year old (more on that to come), and we thought it fitting and affirming to start the new year of the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed with one of our own. Last January 1stfan An Xiao generated lots … Continue reading…

This month, Lori Hepner’s project for the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed has prompted a great response from 1stfans with interesting and thought-provoking @replies, but there also seems to be a curiosity about how she goes from a response on twitter … Continue reading…