BROOKLYN, NY.- This past Saturday, the Brooklyn Museum
experienced
record-breaking attendance, due in part to its monthly Target First
Saturday
event on July 3, 2010. The day – from 11am to 11pm drew a total of
24,000
visitors. The special…
Brooklyn Museum Announces Exhibition by Sam Taylor-Wood: "Ghosts"
BROOKLYN, NY.- Sam Taylor-Wood’s 2008 photographic exploration of the Yorkshire moors, Ghosts, is the latest exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. On view from October 30, 2010, through August 14, …
Brooklyn Museum Target First Saturday Draws Record Breaking Attendance
BROOKLYN, NY.- This past Saturday, the Brooklyn Museum experienced record-breaking attendance, due in part to its monthly Target First Saturday event on July 3, 2010. The day – from 11am to 11pm drew a total of 24,000 visitors. The special exhibitions …
Impressionist Landscapes on View at the Portland Museum of Art
PORTLAND, MAINE – The Portland Museum of Art presents an in-depth study of Impressionist landscape painting. Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism is an exhibition of more than 40 masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The exhi…
The Brooklyn Museum Announces A Major Fashion Exhibition
BROOKLYN, NY.- A major exhibition celebrating the Brooklyn Museum
Costume Collection and the unique collection-sharing partnership with the
Metropolitan Museum of Art will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from May 7
through August 1, 2010. “A…
Major Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum to Redefine the Role of Female Pop Artists
BROOKLYN, NY.- The first major exhibition to explore in depth the contributions of female Pop artists, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968, seeks to expand the definition of classic Pop art and re-evaluate the role of the women who …
The Brooklyn Museum Debuts "Andy Warhol – The Last Decade"
Brooklyn, NY – Andy
Warhol: The Last Decade is the first U.S. museum survey to examine
the late
work of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Encompassing nearly
fifty
works, the exhibition reveals the artist’s vitality, energy, a…
Show at Brooklyn Museum Unveils Andy Warhol’s Catholic, Abstract Side
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- As a pop art pioneer, Andy Warhol blazed his way to fame with trademark Brillo soap pad boxes and silk-screens of Campbell’s Soup cans. But a new museum exhibit shows pop art was just a seven-year phase for Warhol in the 1960s, bef…
Blast From The Past
Period rooms are a staple of museum decorative arts collections: they are carefully-curated, almost theatrical, sets offering authentic snapshots of the tastes that reigned in decors of times gone by. For those who appreciate design of more recent vint…