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Brooklyn Museum API: the iPhone app

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

If anyone needed convincing that an API might be a good idea, this news might just do it for you.  A few weeks ago, we approved an API key for Adam Shackelford, a Brooklyn-based developer, to create an iPhone app. … Continue reading…

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Google, Meet the Brooklyn Museum Posse

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Mike Dillon

Chances are, if you’ve heard of the Internet, you’ve also heard of Google and chances are pretty good that you’ve set up an e-mail account with them as well. Personally, I’ve got three, and that doesn’t even take into account … Continue reading…

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What’s Happening Today?—The Museum Calendar Gets Upgraded

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Jen Borkowski

If you’ve checked out the Museum’s calendar in the last twelve hours or so, you may have noticed how different (or, really, how not different) it is. That’s right, our calendar now looks like it fits with the rest of … Continue reading…

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Brooklyn Museum Collection API

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

We are at the sixth month marker of our Collection going online and you may have noticed that we keep adding to the features as we go along. In the first month, we released our tagging game “Tag! You’re It.” … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art…continued…and a deadline coming up!

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

Wow, there was such a great response to my first post about prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art! Since that announcement, we’ve been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln … Continue reading…

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Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Deborah Wythe

Today we’re launching the next installment in the Brooklyn Museum Collection on the Web—more than 4,000 images from the Libraries and Archives will join the 5700+ works of art and the nearly 10,000 views of past exhibitions that you’ve already … Continue reading…

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Prepping for Wikipedia Loves Art!

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

This is just a quick note to any of the peeps at cultural institutions who may read our blog. We are helping organize Wikipedia Loves Art, an event being held in February at museums across the globe. To get an … Continue reading…

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Collection Preview (and re-thinking tagging)

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Our collection is going online and this is something we’ve been working on for a long time. Although we have some clean up to do and we won’t be layering this feature into our website until early next week, if … Continue reading…

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happy opening, everyone!

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

As silly as this seems, it’s just not real until the signs go up and here they are. I will admit, I was more than a little giddy seeing these unwrapped and going into the lobby case and Mary Jane … Continue reading…

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Click! is not a contest…

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

…it is a study in crowds. It should come as no surprise that this title made it into one of my blog posts (there are many colleagues of mine chuckling about this right about now). That said, we are releasing … Continue reading…

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Last chance to catch our Add-Art show!

Posted on June 2, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Last week I blogged about our participation in Add-Art, the plug-in for Firefox that blocks ads and replaces them with art. We just got an e-mail from Steve Lambert reporting that Add-Art has been downloaded thousands of times since the … Continue reading…

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Thank you!

Posted on May 27, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Wowzer! If you were one of the 3344 visitors who cast 410,089 evaluations for Click!, you know what a commitment it really was. I can’t say this enough: Thank You! This was a very dedicated group of people who gave … Continue reading…

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Mashing-up Hiroshige to block ads and Add-Art!

Posted on May 22, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

What in the world am I talking about?? Brooklyn-based artist Steve Lambert has developed a plug-in for the Firefox browser that block ads and replaces them with art. There’s a lot more about Add-Art (and how great it is) over … Continue reading…

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Last chance to Click!

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

We’ve been watching our little evaluation meter today and we hit 51.3 evaluations a minute this morning! This is a pre-thank you to all of you out there who are active participants in this crowd and, of course, a quick … Continue reading…

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Fireworks! The Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th anniversary

Posted on May 17, 2008 by Deborah Wythe

A recent post on NYC Social alerted us to the Brooklyn Bridge’s upcoming 125th anniversary celebration (May 22nd-26th), featuring fireworks on the 22nd. Fireworks have to be one of my favorite NYC treats, from the 4th of July to the … Continue reading…

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