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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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 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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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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The British artist and prankster Banksy hung this picture at the Brooklyn Museum on March 13, and it seems to have been there for three days before being discovered.
The press has been eating this up, but I find The Times’ headline for it’s story very curious: “Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This […]
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