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August 22, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

Focused Survey of Installation Art by Sanford Biggers at the Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 22, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective challenges and reinterprets symbols and legacies that inform contemporary America in a focused...
August 01, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

Raw/Cooked - A Series of Five Exhibitions by Emerging Brooklyn Artists

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Aug. 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A major series of five ten-week-long exhibitions of works by emerging Brooklyn artists will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from September 2011...
July 29, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum to Present Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 29, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, the first major museum exhibition to explore how gender and sexual identity have shaped the...
July 13, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum Presents Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Latino List, Exhibition of Photographs of Prominent Latino Americans Along With Filmed Interviews

BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new exhibition of large-format, full-color photographic portraits, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Latino List, will be on view at the Brooklyn...
July 08, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum Presents First Large-Scale Exhibition of American Art of the 1920s

October 28, 2011-January 29, 2012 Press Preview, Thursday October 27 BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 8, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Brooklyn Museum will present the first wide-ranging exploration of...
April 19, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

First New York Museum Exhibition Devoted to the Hindu God Vishnu

BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vishnu: Hinduism's Blue-Skinned Savior will feature more than 170 objects that will explore the many personae and legends of Vishnu, his entourage,...
March 16, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

Installation of Indian Paintings on View July 13 Through December 31, 2011, Selected Through Unique Online Experiment Inspired by Malcolm Gladwell Book

BROOKLYN, N.Y., March 16, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Split Second: Indian Paintings, a small installation of ten rarely seen works from the Brooklyn Museum collection, on view July 13 through December...
January 13, 2011 10:30 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

First Major Exhibition in More Than Thirty Years to Examine Tipis of Plains Peoples on View February 18 Through May 15, 2011, at the Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains focuses on the tipi as the center of Plains culture and social, religious, and creative traditions from the early...
January 05, 2011 13:04 ET | Source: Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson to Have Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, N.Y., Jan. 5, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and other works that explore the artist's interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity,...