Exhibitions: From the Collection: Contemporary Art.

  • 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: Paddle Doll

So-called paddle dolls are flat, schematic representations of naked, legless female figures on which jewelry, belts, and other details have ...

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: Head and Bust from a Seated Statue

    Clothing, jewelry, and objects like staffs and scepters—all part of what art historians call iconography—provide clues about ind...

     

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    From the Collection: Contemporary Art.

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      The interest in collecting contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum dates back to 1855, when Asher B. Durand’s The First Harvest in the Wilderness (on view nearby in Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape) was commissioned directly from the artist to become the first painting in the permanent collection. Since then, the Brooklyn Museum has actively collected the works of living American artists, amassing one of the world’s most outstanding collections of American art.

      The selection of contemporary works from the Museum’s collection displayed in this installation explore themes of fantasy and the fable, a tale that teaches a moral, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters. For many of the artists represented, the realm of fantasy becomes a tool for social critique and change. A number of them use imagery associated with childhood memories to translate the narrative of fable into visual language, rearranging the elements of traditional lore and everyday reality or re-imagining the social landscape.

      —Charlotta Kotik
      Curator of Contemporary Art

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