Collections: API: Application Gallery

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Summer Showers

Shortly after he turned to landscape subjects in the late 1850s, Martin Johnson Heade began to gravitate to the lowland coastal salt marshes of the American Northeast, making his studies of the sites in the summer and early fall, when the harvesting of grass and hay took place

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

On View: Kuruma-Dansu (Chest of Drawers)

Japanese merchants considered the easily moveable kuruma dansu, which kept valuables and merchandise in order the storehouse, an essential possession. The chests were often included as part of a daughter's dowry

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May 5, 2011 11:41amArt Collections iPad App

Developer Wayne Bishop releases the Art Collections iPad App, which uses objects from our collection. Read more about it on our blog.

December 17, 2010 10:39amReciprocal Research Network

Objects from the museum's Northwest Coast collection have been added to the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN), an innovative online tool to facilitate reciprocal and collaborative research about cultural heritage from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. The RRN enables communities, cultural institutions and researchers to work together.

August 6, 2009 3:28pmiPhone Application v1.3 Released

Version 1.3 (link opens iTunes) ready for download in the iTunes store.  Fixes are detailed in this blog post.

May 30, 2009 7:00pmiPhone Application v1.0 Released

Apple releases Developer Adam Shackelford's Brooklyn Museum iPhone app into the Apple store as a free download.  Download version 1.0 (link opens iTunes).

April 24, 2009 12:42pmiPhone Application

Developer Adam Shackelford has created an iPhone app, which is soon to be released in the Apple store as a free download.  More about this on our blog.

April 15, 2009 10:15amArtists' Materials

Caroline Brown is working with the API to look at variety of artists’ materials listed under each object’s “medium” attribute.

April 15, 2009 8:12amPython Module

Mark Matienzo is working on a Python module that uses our API to retrieve images and data about the collection.

March 10, 2009 7:51pmPicture Book Mashup

Chris Wallace integrated Brooklyn Museum data his dbpedia-based picture-book mashup, which includes data from Flickr, Wikipedia, and now the Brooklyn Museum. Chris is using XQuery running on eXist XML db using the dbpedia SPARQL interface.

March 9, 2009 7:38pmBrooklyn Browser

David Wilkinson has created a Flash-based browser, written using Adobe Flex, to provide a simple interface to search objects in our collection.  Brooklyn Browser can be accessed on Dave's site and you can read more about it at indicommons.org.

March 5, 2009 4:50pmYahoo Pipes

Piotr Adamczyk is working with our API and Yahoo Pipes.  Piotr is documenting all his findings on his blog, so check it out for the latest information and examples.

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