Opinion
LOS ANGELES — A few days ago, Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum announced that 1stfans, the museum world's first socially networked membership, would be coming to a close after more than three years of great programming.
Art
While a crowd of roughly 150 people sat and chatted in the Brooklyn Museum’s auditorium last Thursday night, waiting for the appearance of the Guerrilla Girls, Christina Aguilera played over the sound system. “What a girl wants, what a girl needs,” she sang — lines and a melody that came as somethin
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The first view of Shura Chernozatonskaya’s work is on the soaring white wall of the Brooklyn Museum’s lobby, spanning over forty feet and high above viewer’s heads.
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It’s not every day that a contemporary artist gets to show her work alongside that of a master. But from now through August 12, Rachel Kneebone is having her day.
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While at the landmark exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, I realized I had to start my review with a statement that will look simple and quite possibly stupid: Hide/Seek is more than David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly."
Opinion
Oh, brother. Artist Scott LoBaido is "disgusted by the constant bashing of Catholicism" by a "publicly funded institute," so he decided to haul his painting of a naked Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman and a toilet to said institution and filmed it! No word on his thoughts about the constant ba
Opinion
Here we go again. Almost a year after the controversy at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Catholic groups in New York have started to raise alarm over David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly" (1986-7) that will appear in the Brooklyn version of Hide/Seek.
Opinion
Just in time for National Coming Out Day last Tuesday and the November opening of the controversial Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, Triple Canopy has published a selection of visual artist and writer David Wojnarowicz's journals online. Giving readers
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Following a three year conservation project, the final section of the rare, Egyptian Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose (c. 1539-1292 BCE) will go on long-term view at the Brooklyn Museum on September 28.
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Keith Haring: 1978-1982, the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-loved American artists of last century will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 13 through August 5, 2012.
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The Brooklyn Museum has issued a press release stating that it will no longer be hosting LA MOCA's Art in the Streets exhibition, which was scheduled to appear in Brooklyn next spring.
Interview
The following is an interview with artist Bently Spang, whose work appears in the Brooklyn Museum's current Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains exhibit. Through the interview, Spang explores ideas of Native American identity, cultural stereotypes and the difficulty of showing Native American spiritua