Serious Eats: Talk (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I'm going to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with friends tomorrow morning and would like afterward to get some sandwiches to bring into Prospect Park for a picnic. Can you recommend any good places for sandwich stuff to go near the...
American Artist (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
James Toogood comments on Winslow Homer's watercolor painting Road in Bermuda.
Talking Pyramids (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
This week’s photo is of the Fragmentary Ointment Jar inscribed for Unas in the Brooklyn Museum.
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Brooklyn is now offering a bevy of Bed & Breakfasts perfect for out-of-towners (and Manhattanites alike) seeking respite from Manhattan’s hustle and bustle. Among the most noteworthy are Sterling Bed and Breakfast, a stones throw from the Botanic Garden, The...
Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
According to the Art Newspaper recently, "a third of the Coptic sculptures at the Brooklyn Museum of Art are modern fakes." Now other museums which acquired Coptic sculptures in the past 50 years are likely to face similar problems. Read more here.
Time (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The famed graffiti artist has traded on anonymity. What will happen to his prices if he's really been identified?
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Beijing Boyce » Um, really? SCMP claims Beijing to ban blacks, Mongolians at bars http://snipr.com/30zaz Fears of a 'no-fun' Olympics in Beijing | theage.com.au http://snipr.com/30zaq Commandos free hostage from jungle hell after six years | NEWS.com.au http://snipr.com/2t28m Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » Shelley Bernstein http://snipr.com/2tq0w Police deny bar owners' claims...
Richard's Notes (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Click, A Crowd-Curated Exhibition Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often [...]
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
New York Sun Doubts about the Brooklyn Museum 's sculptures date back at least to 1977, when a Byzantine art scholar who is now the director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Gary Vikan, argued that they were forgeries in a lecture he delivered at Columbia . But if the existence of the fakes is old news, where and by whom they were made remain mysterious. According to a 2001 article by a former...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Art Daily The Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the first venue to host To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum , which will be on view July 13 – September 7, 2008. Featuring approximately 120 objects dating from 3600 B.C. to 400 A.D. from the world-renowned Egyptian art collection of New York’s Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition will illustrate the range of strategies and preparations...
Talking Pyramids (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Photo of the Week today is this beautiful alabaster statuette of Pepy I with Horus Falcon from the Brooklyn Museum’s online collection Seated Statuette of Pepy I with Horus Falcon
Talking Pyramids (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The Brooklyn Museum has been working hard over the past year to put their collection online and will launch it on their website early next week. Currently there are 5168 items already online and that number is increasing. Djed Pillar from the Brooklyn Museum Collection “We had three goals to accomplish in this round of [...]
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
July 17-October 26, 2008 The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar is Kehinde Wiley’s (b. 1977) first solo exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem and features ten new paintings from his multinational “The World Stage” series. Wiley is known for his stylized paintings of young, urban African-American men in poses borrowed from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century [...]
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Brooklyn Museum crowd-sources a photography exhibition. [more ...]
Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Brooklyn Museum crowd-sources a photography exhibition. [ more ... ]
