Tag Archives: video

An Adventurous Painting

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the things that I love about museums that have blogs is how easy it can be is to get a hold of counterparts when you need something.  In the most recent instance of this, we were able to … Continue reading…

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A visit from artist Seher Shah

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Eugenie Tsai

Seher Shah recently stopped by the Brooklyn Museum to see her large drawing Jihad Pop Progressions 5 – Interior Courtyard 2, 2007 on view in the fourth floor Contemporary galleries. Seher Shah (Pakistani, b. 1975). Interior Courtyard 2, 2007. Graphite … Continue reading…

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Re-making the mess

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Have you ever had one of those days where everything falls into place? When Eugenie Tsai blogged about Valerie Hegarty’s Fallen Bierstadt back in October, she mentioned we needed to do a follow-up post with our paintings conservator, Carolyn Tomkiewicz.  … Continue reading…

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Wrapping Up YouTube Quick Capture for Community Voices

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This is a follow-up report to my earlier post about utilizing YouTube Quick Capture to create a community voices component for The Black List Project.  The exhibition closed yesterday, so the time seemed right to post an analysis of the … Continue reading…

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iPod Touch for use in the Gallery

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

So, the idea was pretty simple: the curators of Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection wanted our visitors to hear directly from the artists in the exhibition, so we set out to create a series of videos … Continue reading…

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What does it take to Photosynth the Brooklyn Museum?

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

After seeing this demonstration video, we couldn’t wait to answer this question. Before I get too deep into this, it’s important to keep in mind Photosynth is a new application and Microsoft released it in the early stages so anyone … Continue reading…

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Gilbert & George take Times Square!

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

If you’ve been in Times Square lately, you may have seen this already, but we were waiting to post until we had some good photos. Tash put out a call to the Brooklyn Museum Members group on Flickr and Trish … Continue reading…

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Destination Paintings . . . as Featured on Sunday Arts

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Terry Carbone

In planning our spots for Channel 13, we faced the challenge of choosing two particularly engaging paintings from among the many works on view objects in our American Art galleries. We often select groups of works for inclusion in the … Continue reading…

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The Making of “Mr. Pointy Comes to Brooklyn”

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Has everyone seen the fantastic work the Indianapolis Museum of Art is doing on their YouTube channel? It’s hard to miss and we’ve been watching their videos for while now in complete amazement. They’ve got a little bit of everything … Continue reading…

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Different Takes: Take 2

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Following up on this earlier post, our new video has just been published to our YouTube feed. Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!

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Different Takes

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

For the past several months, we’ve been working with filmmaker Matt Wolf on an upcoming video project. The video is in the final stages of editing, but I wanted to take a moment to write about the process. When we … Continue reading…

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Indianapolis prepares for “To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum”

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Edward Bleiberg

A team from the Indianapolis Museum of Art including curator Theodore Celenko, designer Tim Hilldebrand, director of new media Daniel Incandela, and new media project administrator Despi Mayes, Gregory Smith, Technical Designer, and Naeema Jackson, formerly in the Education Department … Continue reading…

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Video Competition Lessons Learned

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Shelley Bernstein

Lessons learned post about the Visitor Video Competition for all the colleagues out there who might be thinking of doing something similar.

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Good Luck!

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Shelley Bernstein

On the eve of the announcement of our judges’ decision, Brooklyn Museum staff wanted to share some of our own thoughts (ranging from the “I-have-to-smile moment” to “the wow feeling” to “sleeper hit artworks”) with the filmmakers who created these … Continue reading…

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Video entries are rolling in…

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Shelley Bernstein

Entries for our Visitor Video Competition are starting to roll in. We’ve created a YouTube playlist which can be seen in this post and we will keep updating it as entries are submitted. If you were filming that night and … Continue reading…

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