Brooklyn Museum
WEBThe Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
Exhibitions - Brooklyn Museum
WEBThe Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
Brooklyn Museum: Calendar
WEBThe Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.
Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt - Brooklyn Museum
WEBJul 24, 2013 · Glass or semiprecious stone inlays in the eyes once enhanced this cat’s lifelike appearance. The realistically rendered head also contains symbolic elements that are not immediately apparent; the incised details of fur on the ears evoke the shape of an ostrich feather, the hieroglyph for the goddess Maat—another daughter of the sun god Re, and the personification of truth and harmony.
Brooklyn Museum: Gilbert & George
WEBOct 3, 2008 · The exhibition is sponsored by . Additional generous support is provided by James Chanos, and the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, Millennium Partners, Francis Greenburger, Howard Wolfson, the Arline and Norman M. Feinberg Exhibition Fund, the Alvin E. Friedman-Kien Exhibition Fund, Andrew B. Cohen and Suzi Cohen, Leon and Michaela ...
Studio 54: Night Magic - Brooklyn Museum
WEBStudio 54: Night Magic traces the radiant history, social politics, and trailblazing aesthetics of the most iconic nightclub of all time. Behind the velvet rope, partygoers of all backgrounds and lifestyles could come together for nights of music, dazzling lights, and the popular song and dance “The Hustle.”
Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving - Brooklyn Museum
WEBKahlo began this self-portrait in Detroit but repainted the necklace, erasing the central stone after her return to New York. The necklace, the lace frill of her blouse, and her beribboned hair contrast with her dark eyebrows and pronounced facial hair, challenging conventional norms of femininity and beauty.
How an Ancient Egyptian Blue Has Survived for Thousands of Years
WEBSep 7, 2023 · Cup, Third Intermediate Period, second half of Dynasty 21, circa 985–974 B.C.E. Faience, 2 5/16 × 2 11/16 in. (5.9 × 6.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to …
Brooklyn Museum
WEBIf you look closely, you can see how each of the nails are different - some are very old and handmade and some are new and machine-made. The nails are indicative of changes in the market, a larger sociopolitical environment of the time (the presence of Belgian colonials and access to manufactured goods).
Basquiat - Brooklyn Museum
WEBJean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) was born and raised in Brooklyn, the son of a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother. At an early age, he showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of …