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Open House: Working in Brooklyn
- Dates: April 17, 2004 through August 15, 2004
- Collections: Contemporary Art
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December 2003: To celebrate the April 2004 opening of its new front entrance pavilion and public plaza, designed by James Polshek Partnership architects, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will present an equally unprecedented exhibition, also a celebration, but of the creative renaissance now underway in Brooklyn, which is home to New York City’s greatest concentration of visual artists.
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, on view from April 16 through August 15, 2004, will be the largest, most comprehensive survey to date of artists working in Brooklyn. All of the works on view will have been made since 2000, so few will be familiar to visitors and most will be on view to the public for the first time.
Over 300 works in all contemporary art media by 200 Brooklyn artists will fill the two galleries in the Morris A. and Meyer Shapiro wing of the Museum and occupy other, less conventional locations as well. Other works will also be placed within the BMA’s permanent galleries.
This exhibition will place special emphasis on the multigenerational, multi-ethnic, and multinational artists communities that have breathed new life into such Brooklyn neighborhoods as Williamsburg, DUMBO, Red Hook, Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Sunset Park.
Artists began moving to Brooklyn in large numbers in the 1970s, attracted by the availability of affordable studio space. Galleries followed, opening first in Willamsburg in the 1980s and eventually spreading to other neighborhoods. Today, an estimated 5,000 artists and 50 galleries have transformed Brooklyn into the what is considered the most diverse and vibrant art scene in the United States and a mecca for some of the most talented artists on the international scene.
Expanding on its landmark series of exhibitions showcasing art from Brooklyn, also titled Working in Brooklyn, Open House: Working in Brooklyn is curated by Charlotta Kotik, Chair of the Museum’s Department of Contemporary Art, who has coordinated every one of the Museum’s Working in Brooklyn projects, and Tumelo Mosaka, the Department’s new Assistant Curator. Together they have considered the work of well over 1,000 artists and visited nearly as many studios, galleries, arid private collections.
Artists selected for the exhibition include long-established Brooklyn-based artists such as Vito Acconci, Louise Bourgeois, Rico Gatson, Martha Rosler, and Danny Simmons; widely admired mid-career artist like Terry Adkins, Steven Charles, Wenda Gu, Glen Ligon, and Roxy Paine; and such exciting newcomers as Haluk Akakçe, Rina Banerjee, David Baskin, Amy Cutler, Linda Ganjian, Louis Gispert, Jonathan Grassi, and Emily Jacir.
A number of exciting public programs, to be announced at a later date, will accompany the exhibition as will a full-color catalogue featuring brief biographies of the artists and an introductory essay by curators Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka.
Editors Note: A complete list of the artists participating in Open House: Working in Brooklyn is included in the full press kit. The list and/or selected images are available upon request by calling the BMA Public Information Department or by sending an email to james.gordon©brooklynmuseum.org.Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1995 - 2003. 2003, 070-71. View Original 1 . View Original 2
Press Coverage of this Exhibition
- Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished, Seeks an AudienceApril 12, 2004 By RANDY KENNEDY and CAROL VOGELBrooklyn Museum of Art's $63 million face-lift and modernization comes as it abandons efforts to lure visitors from Manhattan and focuses almost exclusively on Brooklyn's 2.5 million residents; effort by new museum director Arnold L Lehman to concentrate on Brooklyn raises concerns among many in museum world, including his own curatorial staff, that by trying to appeal to broadest spectrum of visitors, museum will become palace of popular culture rather than place to see art; museum has redesigned many galleries, providing plump armchairs, computer touch screens, background music and flat-panel television in many of rooms; critics worry that museum officials are taking theme of accessibility so far that they are undermining museum's strengths as place respected for its scholarship, its research library and its school outreach programs; Lehman characterizes such criticism as knee-jerk reaction from museum traditionalists and elitists; photo (M)
- ART REVIEW; A Hemisphere Shows Its Many-Cultured GloryApril 16, 2004 By GRACE GLUECKGrace Glueck reviews phase 1 of Brooklyn Museum's newly refurbished Hall of the Americas, which displays objects from museum's collections of North, Central and South American art; photo (M)
- ART REVIEW; Brooklyn-ness, a State of Mind and Artistic Identity in the Un-ChelseaApril 16, 2004 By HOLLAND COTTERHolland Cotter reviews exhibit of works by 200 Brooklyn artists at Brooklyn Museum of Art; photo (M)
- ART GUIDEApril 23, 2004 "A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy art, design and photography exhibitions at New York museums and art galleries this weekend. At many museums, children under 12 and members are admitted free. Addresses, unless otherwise noted, are in Manhattan. Most galleries are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but hours vary and should..."
- ART GUIDEApril 30, 2004 "A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy art, design and photography exhibitions at New York museums and art galleries this weekend. At many museums, children under 12 and members are admitted free. Addresses, unless otherwise noted, are in Manhattan. Most galleries are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but hours vary and should..."
- OUR CORRESPONENT IN BROOKLYN; A Rare And Stirring MixtureMay 2, 2004 By Andy NewmanAndy Newman correspondent's report on Brooklyn's densely packed neighborhoods, some distinctly ethnic and others mixture of several nationalities; photos (special section, The Sophisticated Traveler) (part 2 of 2-part section) (M)
- ART GUIDEMay 7, 2004 "A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy art, design and photography exhibitions at New York museums and art galleries this weekend. At many museums, children under 12 and members are admitted free. Addresses, unless otherwise noted, are in Manhattan. Most galleries are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but hours vary and should..."
- ART GUIDEMay 14, 2004 "A selective listing by critics of The Times: New or noteworthy art, design and photography exhibitions at New York museums and art galleries this weekend. At many museums, children under 12 and members are admitted free. Addresses, unless otherwise noted, are in Manhattan. Most galleries are closed on Sundays and Mondays, but hours vary and should..."
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