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Brooklyn Museum Madelenie Cody continues her series in the blog about organizing The Fertile Goddess exhibition at Brooklyn...here's part 2:
Brooklyn Museum: Community: feminist.bloggers@brooklynmuseum » The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Begi
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Last summer we met in storage for a “bonding” session with the figures we selected from the collection for the show, where Maura, Ellen Belcher (our consultant), and I talked at length about each individual object. ...


Brooklyn Museum Remember all the #mummyCT live Tweeting when we took 4 mummies to the hospital to be CT scanned? Well, now we are following up with a series of more detailed blog posts. First up, Conservator Lisa Bruno on mummy transport...
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
As some of you may have seen from the recent press coverage, we took four of our Egyptian human mummies to North Shore University Hospital to be CT scanned—short for computed tomography. Although the ...


Brooklyn Museum Monkey comes to visit us!
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
We’ve been so jealous of @museummodernart for so long because they’ve had multiple visits from Monkey and we’ve had none. We watched as Monkey got famous and took in Shakespeare in the Park, the High Line, the AIC—all the time hoping Monkey would one day cross the river to visit us. ...


Brooklyn Museum NYT review of Yinka Shonibare MBE is in!
Art Review - Yinka Shonibare - At Brooklyn Museum, Fashions of a Postcolonial Provocateur - NYTimes.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Yinka Shonibare, whose works are now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, serves his postcolonialism straight up.
Trish at 10:48am July 8
Yes I did - if you look really closely you can see my reflection in the center.
Brooklyn Museum at 10:59am July 8
Oh wow - totally can! That's awesome!


Brooklyn Museum Our curator gives you "5 reasons to see Caillebotte before 5 July" - catch this show before it closes and give us your comments and feedback, we'd love to hear it!
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
Almost every day that the Caillebotte show has been open to the public, I have been in the galleries—to ponder the works, to give tours, and to talk to our fantastic guards about visitor response. (The ...


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w00t w00t w00t - Target First Saturday broke attendance records this year...80,000 people visited *thank you for your support*
Speaking of...come celebrate July 4th with us, we are being told via Twitter that the music choices are awesome this time around! Don't forget, it's your last chance to see Caillebotte and your first chance to see Yinka Shonibare.
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. ...


Brooklyn Museum The awesome @TrueBloodHBO helps our curator get answers to her Bird Lady questions...Bird Lady inspiration revealed w/ pics of the prop!
Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » HBO’s True Blood team kindly answers our “Bird
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Many thanks are due to our faithful community. Their tweets helped us get in touch with @TrueBloodHBO, the official True Blood twitter feed and they set up a coast-to-coast conference call Tuesday evening ...


Brooklyn Museum Got a Michael Jackson story? Our Chief Designer wants to hear it! Matthew blogging about designing a Rock n' Roll show post-MJ and totally awesome photo....
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Thursday afternoon, around noon, I was doing an advance press interview with Modern Painter magazine about the exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll, which opens here at the Brooklyn Museum in October. One ...
Allison at 8:32am July 1
sounds like a great exhibit you're working on--one that will def. lure a lot of my friends/family to come to Brooklyn. I can't wait!


Brooklyn Museum Tash blogs about the Yinka members preview with the spectacular entrance by the artist.
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
Last Thursday we welcomed over 900 members to the opening of Yinka Shonibare MBE. The weather was perfect, the galleries were packed, and the glass Pavilion was pretty in pink, with festive tablecloths to complement the hot pink walls of the exhibition.


Brooklyn Museum Check out these pics from the Yinka Shonibare Members Preview via Brooklyn Museum member Trish Mayo - Yinka shows up with two companions in Victorian drag!


Brooklyn Museum Will Cary announces the July 2009 1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist: Ranjit Bhatnagar’s “Exquisite Sonnet”
Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » 1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for July 2009:
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Judging by the number of re-tweets Nick’s “Poor SpumoniNick’s Almanack” project received, I think it’s safe to say that 1stfans enjoy Twitter Art Feed projects that mix language and wit with a little interactivity. ...


Brooklyn Museum Yinka Shonibare will be speaking at the Members Preview - coming up Thursday 6/25
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
All Members are invited to a preview and reception celebrating the opening of Yinka Shonibare MBE, the first major survey of the work of the UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE.At 7 p.m. Members have the unique opportunity to hear the artist Yinka Shonibare MBE discuss his work with Dr. ...


Brooklyn Museum Tuesday 6/23 follow @brooklynmuseum on Twitter where curators and conservators will be live tweeting taking 4 mummies to the hospital for CT scans.
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We're the Brooklyn Museum and happen to be one of the oldest and largest museums in the country. Who tweets on this page? Shelley B. is on deck.


Brooklyn Museum Madeleine Cody blogs about our Bird Lady making an appearance on the HBO show True Blood. We've spoken with the people at True Blood via Twitter and they are working on an answer to Madeleine's questions!
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
We were first notified of this surprise appearance from a comment in our online collection by Marlene F. Emmett, who spotted a statue that sure looks like our “Bird Lady” in the first episode of the second season of the HBO series True Blood. ...
Karen at 7:57pm June 22
This looks like a Nile Goddess


Brooklyn Museum Awesome profile of Yinka Shonibare in the Sunday NYT includes video from Art:21 and audio slideshow. Yinka Shonibare MBE opens here this Friday!
Source: www.nytimes.com
Yinka Shonibare, the British-Nigerian conceptual artist, continues to challenge assumptions and stereotypes.


Brooklyn Museum
June 20th 2pm: Dads, Dudes, and Doing It
Four feminist authors and activists ranging from Generation Y to pre-baby boomer reopen a dialogue about women’s lives, power, entitlement, and empowerment. The panelists are Gloria Feldt, author of The War on Choice; Kristal Brent Zook, author of Black Women’s Lives: Stories of Power and Pain; Deborah Siegel, author of Sisterhood Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone
Source: womengirlsladies.blogspot.com
Women, Girls, Ladies offers a FRESH conversation among intergenerational feminists about all that matters: power, work, sex, motherhood, pop culture, the future, and everything in between.
Brooklyn Museum at 8:39am June 19
Hi Lucinda, you might check out Girl With Pen - she sometimes will live blog or do some really good wrap-ups after: http://girlwpen.com/ -shelley


Brooklyn Museum NYT review on Patricia Cronin exhibition...
Art Gallery Exhibitions of Saul Becker, Richard Woods, Patricia Cronin, Lisa Beck, Kim Dorland and G
Source: www.nytimes.com
Patricia Cronin at the Brooklyn Museum, Lisa Beck at Feature Inc., “Tainted Love” at La MaMa Galleria and more.


Brooklyn Museum Vampires and Art! Bird Lady prop makes an appearance on Showtime's True Blood - we nabbed a couple of screenshots...
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A Bird Lady statue made an onscreen appearance in the Showtime series True Blood - season 2, episode 1. While it's not the Brooklyn Museum's actual Bird Lady, it sure looks pretty similar!Check out this blog on the subject.
Evan at 7:02am June 18
(HBO Series not Showtime)
Brooklyn Museum at 5:42am June 19
oops, thanks for the correction, Evan! -shelley


Brooklyn Museum Yay! Light of the Sufis got an "exquisite" review in the NYT and there's a slideshow too!
Art Review - 'Light of the Sufis' - Enlightened Disorder in New Islamic Galleries of the Brooklyn Mu
Source: www.nytimes.com
Many voices is what you find in an exquisite show called “Light of the Sufis” in the newly reinstalled Islamic galleries at the Brooklyn Museum.


Brooklyn Museum Sunday Arts goes interviews curator Ladan Akbarnia!
Source: www.thirteen.org
This week’s SundayArts Choice focuses on two new exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum. Curator Ladan Akbarnia provides a fascinating glimpse into the “Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam” and the newly reinstalled Islamic Galleries. ...


Brooklyn Museum Madeleine Cody on creating The Fertile Goddess exhibition...multi-part series...
Brooklyn Museum: Community: feminist.bloggers@brooklynmuseum » The Fertile Goddess: Endings and Begi
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
As we deinstall The Fertile Goddess exhibition, it seems appropriate to reflect on a very good question that numerous visitors have asked me: how do we conceive of, plan, and create an exhibition like ...


Brooklyn Museum Collecting Currently - second part of the series on "Creating a Niche Collection" - Wed 6/10, registration required, details at the link
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
Receive insight into building a collection that reflects your passion and personal interest. Moderated by Barry R. Harwood, Brooklyn Museum curator, the panel includes Michael Valentine, collector and ...


Brooklyn Museum Quick note, due to renovation the Assyrian Reliefs are currently off view for a bit. Here's a pic of what's going on in the gallery...
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The Assyrian Reliefs are temporarily off view while we renovate the gallery. We will post here when everything has re-opened.


Brooklyn Museum Pub'd some pics of the newly installed Arts of the Islamic World galleries to Flickr
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.


Brooklyn Museum Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam opens today along with newly reinstalled Arts of the Islamic World galleries
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
Sample of Persian Calligraphy from a Mughal Album. Calligraphy: Iran, Safavid, 16th century; margins: India, Mughal, 17th century. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by anonymous donors and the Helen Babbott Sanders Fund, 1991.185


Brooklyn Museum Target First Saturday coming up! "Illuminating Islam"..Islamic galleries reopen, Light of Sufis opens ...
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. ...


Brooklyn Museum iphone app released to the itunes store using our API - check it out if you have an iphone and give the developer feedback in our blog
Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » Brooklyn Museum API: the iPhone app released o
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It’s a rare weekend blog post from us, but we found out that Brooklyn Museum iPhone app hit iTunes and, well, we just can’t contain ourselves—yay!


Brooklyn Museum Sat 2pm "The Depiction of Modern Life from Caillebotte to the Present” includes artist Jules de Balincourt!
Brooklyn Museum: Event: Panel Discussion: “The Depiction of Modern Life from Caillebotte to the Pres
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894). Oarsman in a Top Hat, 1877–78. Oil on canvas, 35 7/16 x 46 1/16 in. (90 x 117 cm). Private collection


Brooklyn Museum Will Cary announces the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed artist for June in the blog!
Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » 1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for June 2009:
Source: www.brooklynmuseum.org
Nick Fortunato is the second artist selected via the open call for the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed. Similar to An Xiao’s work with Morse Code, Nick’s proposal for the feed explores the delivery of news and evolution of communication through the ages. ...


Brooklyn Museum More from indicommons about our collections in the Flickr Commons - yay!
Source: www.indicommons.org
Happy Commonsversary to the Brooklyn Museum. We celebrate with some highlights of the Brooklyn’s collection on Flickr. This iconic lantern slide of an Egyptian Sphinx is rated as their most “interesting” photograph on Flickr:















































Brooklyn Museum We just outfitted our amazing Art Handlers w/ iPod Touches and a mobile app, to make it easier for them to do their jobs on the go...