LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Artist Roy Gussow was born in Brooklyn NY, Nov. 12th 1918. He wanted to be a farmer and went to Farmingdale State College, where discouraged by the repetition and lack of creativity of agricultural work, he changed his program an…
Brooklyn Museum to Open First Phase of Transformative Renovation of First Floor
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has completed an extensive renovation of its historic Great Hall at the center of its ground floor and has reclaimed additional space for a new gallery. This project, which is the initial phase of a major redesign of …
Brooklyn Museum to Open First Phase of Transformative Renovation of First Floor
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has completed an extensive renovation of its historic Great Hall at the center of its ground floor and has reclaimed additional space for a new gallery. This project, which is the initial phase of a major redesign of …
Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has acquired, by purchase from the London Gallery Robilant + Voena, Agostino Brunias’s (1730-1796) painting Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, (circa 1764-96), a portrait of the eight…
Brooklyn Museum Acquires 18th Century Painting by Agostino Brunias Depicting Colonial Elite
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum has acquired, by purchase from the London Gallery Robilant + Voena, Agostino Brunias’s (1730-1796) painting Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape, (circa 1764-96), a portrait of the eight…
An Exhibition of Photographs by Cleveland-Born Nathan Harger Opens at Hasted Kraeutler
NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Kraeutler presents an exhibition of photographs by Nathan Harger. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition. Nathan Harger photographs objects, scenes and spaces in the everyday urban environment such as highways, cranes, br…
Study Photographs and Paintings by Norman Rockwell at the Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, NY.-To create many of his iconic, quintessentially American paintings, most of which served as magazine covers, Norman Rockwell worked from carefully staged study photographs that are on view for the first time, alongside his paintings, drawi…
Brooklyn Museum Inaugurates Purchase Fund for Acquisition of pre-1945 African American Art
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum is inaugurating a new collecting initiative that will focus on the acquisition of works by African American artists that were created between the mid-nineteenth century and 1945. In the first three years, the Museum i…
Major Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum Redefines 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 …
Major Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum Redefines 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 …