Brooklyn Museum
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: Elizabeth A. Sackler attends the 2012 Brooklyn Artists' Ball after-party at the Brooklyn Museum on April 18, 2012 in New York City.
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The response was beyond my wildest dreams ... Over a million people have seen it. I was not going to be happy until it found a permanent home. It is now the centerpiece of the Elizabeth Sackler Center (for Feminist Art) at the Brooklyn Museum and 20 to 30 percent of the traffic there is people going to see it.
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NYC feminist art center marks 5th anniversary
(AP) -- The Brooklyn Museum 's feminist art center is marking its fifth anniversary this year by commemorating famous women of the next millennium -- placing them alongside luminaries of the past.The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is using Read more »
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NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring
(AP) -- The bohemian atmosphere of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s had a huge impact on the art of Keith Haring, from his impromptu subway chalk drawings to his maze-like abstract paintings.In a new exhibition that focuses on the late artist's e Read more »
Around the web
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Beat Up The Block
Unfortunately, most of the time, those two things are mutually exclusive—except for this month’s First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. The theme du jour is Brooklyn Block Party, and they’ve managed to pull together a lineup that reflects the best of partying 11:12 AM from Brooklyn Based Read more »
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Paris and Puerto Rico Unite in Brooklyn’s Newest Acquisition
Stay tuned for more on Brooklyn’s future European and Spanish colonial art acquisitions. Richard Aste joined the Brooklyn Museum in the spring of 2010 as Curator of European Art. From 2007 until 2010, he was Associate Curator of European Art at Museo de Arte from Brooklyn Museum Read more »
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Designing women
brings a specific image to mind. In 2004 the Met inherited many of her garments and accessories when it took over the Brooklyn Museum’s famous costume collection. (Brooklyn could not afford to maintain it.) Messrs Koda and Bolton were astonished. Schiaparelli from Economist Read more »
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Keith Haring Resurrected
his Radiant Baby, stenciled right onto 16th and Guerrero. (The Brooklyn Museum is having some sort of retrospective right now, which means the entirety of NYC's plywood walls are covered in Keith Haring's art. Maybe their marketing is making its way out to from Uptown Almanac Read more »
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Museum and Gallery Listings for May 25-31
teaser to the fabulous collections in the galleries beyond. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, (718) 638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org . (Holland Cotter) ★ Guggenheim Museum: ‘Francesca Woodman’ (through June 13) Francesca Woodman, the photographer from The New York Times Read more »
