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The Brooklyn Museum was founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library and merged with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1843. The museum was conceived as an institution focused on a broad public. [3] The Brooklyn Museum's current building dates to 1897 and has been expanded several times since then.
MICRO Museum, Brooklyn [6] Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, closed in 2016 [7] Museum of Biblical Art, closed in 2015; Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, closed in 2012, collections now part of the Society of Illustrators; Museum of Living Art, 1927-1943 at NYU, modern art collection of Albert Eugene Gallatin [8]
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art opened on March 23, 2007, at the Brooklyn Museum as the first public space of its kind in the country. [ citation needed ] The 8,300-square-foot (770 m 2 ) center, located on the museum's fourth floor, aims to create a compelling and interactive environment to raise awareness and educate about ...
The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is a community orchestra in the New York City metropolitan area. Founded in 1973 under the auspices of the Brooklyn Heights Music Society, the orchestra is comprised primarily of volunteer musicians, playing concerts throughout the year at the Brooklyn Museum and other venues in Brooklyn and New York City.
Who Shot Rock and Roll logo. Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present was the first major museum exhibition of Rock music photography. The exhibit was organized by guest curator Gail Buckland at the Brooklyn Museum in 2009.
In 1993 Anne Pasternak left Real Art Ways and became the executive director of Creative Time.There she curated and organized numerous exhibitions, events, discussions, and public art projects including the annual "Tribute In Light" memorial honoring the lives lost on September 11, 2001; Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot in Post-Katrina New Orleans, and Kara Walker's A Subtlety in Brooklyn's Domino ...
The Brooklyn Museum’s curators might have chosen to exhibit and interpret the house to any point in its long history, but they wanted to add an early Dutch colonial house to the series of existing period rooms. This necessitated stripping away later additions and changes, such as the kitchen wing and porch, to rediscover the original two-room ...
An exhibition of Anisfelds's works is mounted at the Brooklyn Museum. Christian Brinton, a connoisseur of Russian art, is the organizer. [ 6 ] The exhibition, which in the course of two years, will travel to several major American cities, sets off a lively discussion about the merits of his art.