Blog Profile / Brooklyn Museum of Art
| URL : | http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers | |
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| Filed Under: | Arts / Museums | |
| Posts on Regator: | 294 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.5 | |
| Archived Since: | July 25, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Looking for love?
I’ve been at the Brooklyn Museum for about a year-and-a-half now, which is also as long as I’ve been a resident of our fair borough. I’ve worked many places in the country—at and for different museums—and one thing that struck … Continue reading …
Fund for African American Art: New Acquisition
As many of you know, the Brooklyn Museum launched the Fund for African American Art a few years ago. This ambitious initiative, which was covered in the New York Times, is designed to help us acquire works created by African … Continue reading …
Teaching with a 3D Simulacrum
When Shelley and David brought up the idea of 3D printing, my not-so-inner tech geek and my really-blatantly-outer education geek got pretty excited. As Shelley mentioned in her previous post, 3D printing is a hot topic in the museum world … Continue reading …
Join us at #table17
The Brooklyn Artists Ball is coming up next week and it’s an event that we are super excited about; this year’s ball celebrates Brooklyn and our guests will dine at sixteen tables designed especially for the event by Brooklyn artists. In years … Continue reading …
Replicating a 19th Century Statue with 21st Century Tech
My first exposure to the world of 3D printing took place in 2009 approximately 500 feet under the Earth’s surface in a former missile silo in the Washington state desert. There, three founders of a new Brooklyn-based 3D printer company … Continue reading …
3D Printing for Accessibility
In the last year, we’ve seen a lot happening in the museum space with 3D printing. The Smithsonian is working on what looks like a enormous project, the Met has a ongoing series of initiatives that look pretty cool, the San Francisco Asian Art … Continue reading …
The End of the Season
Working together with the ARCE project team we got a great deal accomplished this season in preparing the site to open to visitors. Most of the work consisted of organizing a mass of inscribed and decorated blocks and getting them … Continue reading …
Our last week of excavation
Our last day of excavation was February 28, but we still have work to do. Since we are leaving Luxor next week, this will be our last post from the field. We will do one last wrap-up posting on March … Continue reading …
Old projects, new projects
Jaap’s wife, Egyptologist Julia Harvey, arrived on February 15, completing this season’s small team. Julia has agreed to take on the pottery, with which she has considerable experience. She already has the first batches sorted and organized. We finished … Continue reading …
What was that about the WPA?
For her Raw/Cooked exhibition, Supple Beat, Marela Zacarias has installed in the Museum’s lobby and Great Hall four site specific works, each based on one of the Williamsburg Murals. These works seduce on a purely visual level, but don’t stop … Continue reading …
Our first week
According to the late French scholar, Agnes Cabrol, these 3 badly damaged sphinxes sitting east of Chapel D date stylistically to the reign of Ramesses III and probably had originally been part of a sphinx avenue leading north from that … Continue reading …
Back at Mut – How things have changed!
Our first day at the site this year was February 6, so most of this first posting will be about how the site has changed since we left in January 2011. In February 2012 the American Research Center in Egypt, … Continue reading …
Armed with Input
As you may recall, we kicked-off a visitor study about Connecting Cultures back in May with an updated approach based on a bit of trial-and-error in July. We wrapped up the study in August and it’s taken me awhile to … Continue reading …
Out of Africa, 1926: Malvina Hoffman and a Senegalese Soldier
In his newly opened installation Rumination, Raw/Cooked artist Duron Jackson has included Senegalese Soldier(28.385), a remarkable work by the early-twentieth-century sculptor Malvina Hoffman. Placed in close proximity with Jackson’s Blackboard Paintings—abstracted aerial views of American prisons—Hoffman’s larger than life-sized bust … Continue reading …
Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree
Since the 1990s, Yoko Ono has created her work Wish Tree in locations all over world. In honor of Ono’s acceptance of the Brooklyn Museum’s 2012 Women in the Arts Award, we have installed this work in our third floor … Continue reading …
Othoniel’s Sculptures and Glass from the Islamic World
Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way just closed here in Brooklyn a few days ago, but The Secret Happy End (2008) is still on view in the first-floor lobby and we are always thinking of ways to draw connections between among our … Continue reading …
Join us in Celebrating GO
It’s hard to believe we are here after dozens of artist and voter meetups throughout the summer; an exhilarating open studio weekend that resulted in 147,000 studio visits; nominations and curator studio visits, and a whirlwind installation schedule…our exhibition opens … Continue reading …
Making Choices to Create an Exhibition
Once we had our group of the ten most nominated artists, Eugenie and I set out on our part of the collaboration. We visited the artists independently without preconceived ideas about the work we would see or the show it … Continue reading …
Creating a Framework to Collaborate with the Public
You have been following us from the 1708 studios to 9,457 nominations to 10 nominees to the 5 featured artists. Let’s take a look at how we got here. Over the past year and a half, we discussed many ways … Continue reading …
Our GO Featured Artists
Since our announcement of our top ten nominated artists in late September, Eugenie Tsai (John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art) and I have visited their studios in Brooklyn. We decided to each individually meet with the artists, and then discuss … Continue reading …