NEW YORK, NY.- Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Walls, Diaries, and Paintings, a solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá. On view from March 3 through April 16, 2011. Walls, Diaries, and Paintings features fifteen new paintings, that …
Abstract Sculptor Roy Gussow,Who Liived and Worked in Long Island City, Dies at 92
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 …
First Major Exhibition in More Than Thirty Years to Examine Tipis of Plains Peoples
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- On View February 18 through May 15, 2011, Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains focuses on the tipi as the center of Plains culture and social, religious, and creative traditions from the early nineteenth century to the present. The exhibi…
The Brooklyn Museum is Giving About 5,000 Pre-Columbian Artifacts to Costa Rica
NEW YORK (AP).- The Brooklyn Museum is preparing to give about 5,000 pre-Columbian artifacts in its collection to Costa Rica as part of a housekeeping move to trim its vast holdings. The museum will initially give the National Museum of Costa Rica 983 …
Brooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson Opens Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and other works that explore the artist’s interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity, and history. On view through August 21, 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. Through works tha…
Brooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson Opens Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and other works that explore the artist’s interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity, and history. On view through August 21, 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. Through works tha…
New York City Museum and Visitor Center to Display Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 200-Year History
NEW YORK (AP).- For more than a century, tens of thousands worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, building some of the nation’s most storied warships — sailing frigates, Civil War ironclads, gunboats, sloops and 20th-century warships and submarines. T…
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…