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The Brooklyn Museum honored renowned artist Kiki Smith at its seventh annual Women in the Arts award ceremony on November 19, 2009.

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In conjunction with the exhibition The Fertile Goddess, scholars Ellen Belcher and Diana Craig Patch discuss early female figurines of the Neolithic Period from ancient Mesopotamia and of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods from ancient Egypt. Moderated by exhibition curator Madeleine Cody, the panel will investigate issues of interpretation, function, and provenance that have influenced how herstory is uncovered. The panel was held at the Brooklyn Museum on March 14, 2009.

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This panel discussion, moderated by Elvis Mitchell, interviewer for The Black List Project, continues the exhibition’s consideration of how race, history, and each individual's striving shape and enrich their stories of success. The discussion will center on what the next four years might hold for Black women now that First Lady Obama and her daughters have moved into the White House. Panelists will include Studio Museum in Harlem Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden, acclaimed artist Lorna Simpson, and CNN Entertainment Correspondent Lola Ogunnaike.  The panel was held at the Brooklyn Museum on January 31, 2009.

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A panel discussion about the process and outcome of Click! held on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at FIGMENT 2008. Panelists included James Surowiecki, New Yorker financial columnist and author of The Wisdom of Crowds; Jeff Howe, contributing editor of Wired magazine, who coined the term “crowdsourcing”; Eugenie Tsai, Brooklyn Museum’s John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art; and Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum’s Manager of Information Systems and the organizer of Click! The panel was moderated by Nicole Caruth, Brooklyn Museum’s Manager of Interpretive Materials and a freelance writer and curator based in Brooklyn.

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This panel discussion took place at the Museum on March 30, 2008. Presented with feminist cooperative gallery A.I.R. as part of a month of events sponsored by Art W, this panel features feminist artists and critics Carolee Schneemann, Mira Shor, Brynna Tucker, Susan Bee, and Emma Bee-Bernstein, and explores connections between generations of feminist artists.

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This artist dialogue took place at the Museum on March 13, 2008. The contemporary Egyptian-born American artist Ghada Amer discusses her work and her new exhibition, Love Has No End, in a dialogue with Maura Reilly, Ph.D., curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

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This moderated panel discussion took place at the Museum on November 17, 2007. Scholars and artists included Miguel Luciano, Raquel Z. Rivera, and Sujatha Fernandes discussing the cultural impact of different popular Caribbean musical styles, including soca, calypso, reggae, mambo, and merengue.

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This moderated panel discussion took place at the Museum on October 27, 2007. Scholars and artists included Elizabeth McAlister, John Amira, and Marta Vega discussing the ways belief functions in the daily life of Caribbean peoples within the islands and in New York.

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Artist Hew Locke discusses his work El Dorado in the exhibition Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art. This artist talk took place at the Museum on September 21, 2007.

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Artist Joscelyn Gardner discusses her work Creole Portraits II (A Collection of Singular & Scarce Portrait Heads to Perpetuate the Memory of the Women of Egypt Estate in Jamaica) in the exhibition Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art. This artist talk took place at the Museum on September 21, 2007.

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The following recording is of an unscripted conversation between artist Devorah Sperber and former Brooklyn Museum Curator of Prints and Drawings, Marilyn Kushner. Sperber's exhibition The Eye of the Artist: The Work of Devorah Sperber is on view at the Brooklyn Museum January 26 through May 6, 2007.

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In association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and the release of their new publication Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents, the Brooklyn Museum hosted a panel discussion on women’s contributions to graffiti and street art on November 18, 2006. Panelists included Lady Pink, Toofly, Swoon, and Lady K Fever.

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As part of the Annie Leibovitz Talk Series, Jane Sarkin O'Connor, Features Editor of Vanity Fair magazine, shares her insight into her personal relationship with Annie Leibovitz and her own extensive experience with commercial photography.

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The following recording is of an unscripted conversation between artist Walton Ford and Brooklyn Museum Curator of Prints and Drawings, Marilyn Kushner. Ford's exhibition Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford is on view at the Brooklyn Museum November 3, 2006 through January 28, 2007.

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The following audio file contains excerpts from interviews with the exhibition's co-curators, Curator of Prints and Drawings Marilyn Kushner and Principal Librarian Deirdre Lawrence. Looking Back from Ground Zero: Images from the Brooklyn Museum Collection is on view August 30, 2006–January 7, 2007.

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The following recording of photographer Annie Leibovitz is from an interview that took place at the artist's studio on September 28, 2006, related to the exhibition Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005. The exhibition is on view at the Brooklyn Museum October 20, 2006 through January 21, 2007.

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Artist Crash started spray-painting murals on the sides of subway cars, on basketball courts, and on building walls more than twenty years ago. Hear him discuss his work in the Brooklyn Museum exhibition Graffiti. This audio file is from a live recording of our Target First Saturday event on July 1, 2006.

Q&A with Crash

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Exhibiting artist Lady Pink gives a talk in the Graffiti exhibition gallery. This audio file is from a live recording of our teen program held at the Museum on July 22, 2006.

Q&A with Lady Pink

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Brooklyn artist Ellis Gallagher, a.k.a. ©Ellis G., speaks about the history of graffiti, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum exhibition Graffiti. This audio file is from a live recording of our Target First Saturday event on July 1, 2006.

Q&A with ©Ellis G