Archive for April, 2005

Ovid FAQ Tops in Google

Monday, April 11th, 2005

I don’t know much about how Google’s vaunted “PageRank” works, but since reformatting and adding some to my Ovid FAQ, it has made it to the top of the results for “Ovid” (except for a few links to ovid.com, “an internationally recognized leader in medical information services”).

Update: Things got pretty volatile a few days after […]

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NYCIndyMedia Reviews Basquiat

Monday, April 11th, 2005

Someone has reviewed the Basquiat show on IndyMedia, and apparently in the printed counterpart, the Indypendent. I think the reviewer really caught what it means to mount this exhibition in Brooklyn:

The Brooklyn Museum retrospective is another hit from their gambling curators. To see Basquiat juxtaposed with the vast collection of African art he had visited […]

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Ovid FAQ Rediuiuus

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

While idly searching Google for Ovid I discovered that a FAQ that I had written several years ago was still one of the top results. That seems like a position with a fair amount of responsibility, and I’ve spruced it up so that I might be able to maintain it a little better:

The new Ovid […]

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Front Page News

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

Gotta love the Brooklyn Paper. Not only are they pretty good about raking Bruce Ratner over the coals, but Bruce Springsteen’s recent visit to the Brooklyn Museum was
front page news on April 2.

I was standing behind them (a fair ways behind them) when they took this picture of the Boss and my boss, Museum […]

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Banksy Features Brooklyn Museum Website on His Website

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Banksy now has “screenshots” of web pages from the museums where he recently “exhibited”, so I feel like the Brooklyn Museum web site has dipped a tiny toe into the water of art history.

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Interactive Floor Plan

Friday, April 1st, 2005

We finally put up a clickable floor plan on the Brooklyn Museum website. What had been holding it up was the need to do something special for the special exhibitions galleries so that we wouldn’t have to be constantly updating the floor plan.

Since we have recently (finally) moved to database-backed content for much of the […]

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