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- Brooklyn Museum to Cut Staff, Reduce Programming
The Brooklyn Museum on February 7 announced cost-cutting measures that include laying off more than forty employees and reducing annual exhibitions
- Close-Up: Leilah Babirye on Elizabeth Catlett’s Political Prisoner
One hand is open, while the other is closed into the iconic Black Power fist This work is Elizabeth Catlett ’s 1971 sculpture Political Prisoner, on view through January 19 in “A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies,” a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum presenting more than two hundred pieces of Catlett’s art
- Home of Brooklyn Museum President Vandalized - artforum. com
The Brooklyn residence of Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, was defaced by vandals on the evening of June 11 Strung across the entrance to the apartment building was a banner reading “Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacist Zionist” in large letters; repeated three times below, in a smaller font, were the words “Funds Genocide ” Spray-painted on her front door
- Pearlman Foundation Donates Modernist Masterpieces to Multiple Museums
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, which oversees the renowned Pearlman Collection, an assembly of modern and Impressionist masterworks, will gift the entire assembly to three museums The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is to be one of the lucky beneficiaries, as are the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), both in New York LACMA is set to receive six works, the
- Darienne Turner Named Brooklyn Museum’s First Full-Time . . . - Artforum
The Brooklyn Museum has announced Darienne “Dare” Turner as its inaugural full-time curator of Indigenous art Turner, who is currently an associate curator of Indigenous art at the Baltimore Museum of Art will take up her post at the New York institution in August
- Brooklyn Museum Staffers Protest Layoffs Outside Fundraiser
More than two hundred people rallied outside an invitation-only event at the Brooklyn Museum to protest its layoff of forty-seven workers
- After Controversial Hire, Activists Call for Brooklyn Museum to Form . . .
The activist collective Decolonize This Place has released an open letter demanding that the Brooklyn Museum do more to address the controversy that has ensued after the museum hired Kristen Windmuller-Luna, a white woman, as its consulting curator for African art
- Brooklyn Museum Announces Kimberly Panicek Trueblood as President, COO
New York’s Brooklyn Museum has appointed Kimberly Panicek Trueblood as its new president and chief operating officer Trueblood’s wealth of experience lies not in the art world but in the public-service sector
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