Community: Comment: Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn

i liked the concept very much, but i found the graphics on the walls to be a bit distracting. and sometimes it wasn't clear to me what the unifying theme of a group of objects was. that said, i thought it was beautifully installed and designed and an interesting way of bring disparate cultures, times, and media together

Some dynamic pieces; however, lacking some cohesion in places. Great idea, but would love better execution. Thanks!

I loved the juxtaposition of objects and the apposition of 'high art' and 'material culture'. The enigmatic allure of the female Sphinx from millennia ago continues to intrigue with its sense if frozen sentiment; similarly, the Appian Way painting was intriguing in showing how a relatively recent past viewed the distant past.

excellent!!! the juxtaposition of the different eras produces a new kind of consciousness, activates perceptions that otherwise would have lain dormant.

love it! Bkln Museum is already my fave because it feels like exploring someone's amazing house with magic wardrobes. this exhibit just adds to the intelligent eclectic fun by bringing down some oldies and mixing up how i think of them next tp pieces i am not used to seeing. thanks!!!

i think this is very helpful and useful to my 3 year old son donte.i have not been here in years and we are both equally excited and the tour is not done!

Sometimes the connections work well, and I particularly liked the use of early film alongside static art-works. Mostly, it seemed too arbitrary. I had also expected Brooklyn to figure in the exhibition, and it didn't.

Some of the plinths could be lower to allow shorter people to see the objects better. But the curators' choices are very interesting, a good example of this museum as an example of the cultural melange that is Brooklyn.

Very cool but a bit overwhelming to take in at once.

There is a more marked sense of disorganization and jumble in this exhibit. Though that's a quality that pervades the Brooklyn Museum; reading some of the curator's notes in other exhibits, it's said that pieces ended up here because there was literally no room for them elsewhere. And many of those pieces are interesting, but not one-of-a-kind or especially important. So besides some of the ceramic work in this exhibit, which was plainly difficult to see, I feel that this is an accurate, if somewhat more pronounced, sketch of the museum as a whole. That is, a bit more like a poorly organized antique shop than a museum, but moderately interesting nonetheless.