Tag: Brooklyn Museum
Starting tomorrow, Brooklyn based artist and Twitter extraordinaire, Man Bartlett will be taking over both the Brooklyn Museum‘s Twitter and Instagram feeds during the Brooklyn Artist’s Ball. This years event celebrates Brooklyn artists and the borough’s ever changing, thriving, creative community. During the event and its concurrent auction Man will be working with Barry Hoggard on the project asking what […]
In 1999, the Brooklyn Museum displayed Holy Virgin Mary, a painting by the Turner Prize-winning painter Chris Ofili that incorporates elephant feces and images of female genitalia alongside an image of the Virgin Mary. The work offended the delicate sensibilities of then-mayor Rudy Giuliani and his Roman Catholic deputy mayor Joe Lhota, and what followed was a […]
Here’s the staff at Brooklyn Museum hanging Ghanian artist El Anatsui’s monumental bottle cap wall sculpture, a triumph of art handling no doubt worthy of the Art Handling Olympics. Only takes them about a minute, too — sort of. Anatsui’s first solo exhibition opened last Thursday, featuring a number of these massive installations made from […]
“We’re going to do a lot of things the museum said we can’t do.” That we did. Last Saturday, Prince Rama held court at the Brooklyn Museum. It got spiritual. There was also glitter. The Brooklyn band’s life-philosphy/religion/budding cult the Now Age may not totally alleviate our post-2012 existential paranoia, but it does provide some […]
