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Bookmark or Share- Darienne Turner Named Brooklyn Museum’s First Full-Time ... - Artforum“The Brooklyn Museum’s collection is simply remarkable, and I am thrilled to work alongside brilliant colleagues and Native community members to share it with the public,” Turner said. “The opportunity to re-present a historic collection at an institution dedicated to rethinking representation was one I couldn’t pass up.
- 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. Specifically, the group is urging that the museum introduce a “Decolonization ...
- PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATORS TAKE THEIR MESSAGE TO MUSEUMS - ArtforumPro-Palestinian protesters over the weekend staged rallies at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, both in New York; disrupted a reading by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof; and mounted a sit-in at the British Museum in London in response to the institution’s deal with oil-and-gas conglomerate BP.
- Brooklyn Museum Receives Historic $50 Million Gift from New York CityA $50 million gift to the Brooklyn Museum announced yesterday by outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio marks the largest donation in the museum’s history. The windfall from the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs is the upshot of the shrewd politicking from Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak, who came to de Blasio in June 2020 ...
- Brooklyn Museum Elects Barbara M. Vogelstein to Chair its ... - ArtforumThe Brooklyn Museum has announced that, as of today, Barbara M. Vogelstein will succeed Elizabeth A. Sackler as chair of the institution’s board of trustees. Vogelstein, who served on the board from 2001 to 2010 and again since 2015, said, “I am delighted to join Anne Pasternak, the Shelby White and Leon Levy director of the museum, as she ...
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