Fred Tomaselli’s Paint, Pills and Plant Book Cut-Outs

See twenty years of Fred Tomaselli’s kaleidoscopic, resin-coated collages at the Brooklyn Museum next month. The Brooklyn-based painter has some pulsating arteries, strange birds and multiplying eyes to show you. Fred Tomaselli, Oct 8 – Jan 2, Brooklyn Museum

Andy Warhol had a big head, so naturally, the Brooklyn Museum installed a 20-ft Warhol-head-shaped piñata. It’s filled with mysterious edibles that will rain down on art lovers when they smash it open at the Brooklyn Ball.

In a backwards burglary, an artist smuggled his work into the Brooklyn Museum over the weekend. During normal business hours, self-proclaimed “fine art graffiti artist” Mat Benote covertly hung his painting in the contemporary art section as the finale to an exhibition of illicit installations across the country. Benote’s original painting, titled “Life’s Puzzle,” was divided and distributed to a dozen museums in an attempt to give back to those deemed exceptional for their public service and access. In a statement, Benote explains: Read more »

Like an oversharing parent the Brooklyn Museum is tweeting minute-by-minute updates as their beloved mummies getting CAT scanned this morning. They’ve just discovered that the fourth mummy, Prince Pasebakhaienipet, has his heart still in place and a piece of reed stuck in his throat! Besides identifying organs and mummy genitalia, these new three dimensional pictures could be useful if the the museum wants to include some wacky police sketches when the mummies go back on display later this summer.

The Brooklyn Museum is showing off some new prints given to them by photographer Dash Snow and his dealer, Javier Peres. Expectedly, this latest body of work continues the artist’s long-running experimentation with semen and other adult themes. Read more »