Tag: Brooklyn
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At Making Their Mark Forum, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak Notes Troubling Pattern in Museum Leadership
During a talk in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, Charlotte Burns reported in the Financial Times Thursday. “I’m petrified about read more
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The Tiny Brooklyn Project Space Resisting the Gallery Machine
I, like so many others of that generation lost to the internet,have been thinking about friction lately. How technology’s promise of seamless interconnection across people, geographies, and time has ultimately made each of us more alone. About the price we pay, if we’re willing, for community. I thought about friction as I walked back and read more
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Brooklyn Museum to Explore Removing Overpainting from Erotic Gauguin Relief Panel
In August, the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation announced that it was dispersing all 63 artworks in its possession to three art museums: the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Among the 29 artworks gifted to the Brooklyn Museum—many of them paintings and sculptures by Chaïm read more
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Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum
Detail from an illustrated Book of the Dead (c. 305–30 BCE), papyrus, ink, gold, and paper (photo courtesy the Brooklyn Museum; all other photos Greta Rainbow/Hyperallergic) I’m lucky: I haven’t been to many funerals. The ones I have experienced were not cinematic, weepy affairs in grand cathedrals with an organ and a procession out to read more
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Iris Cantor, Philanthropist Who Transformed the Met and the Brooklyn Museum, Dies at 95
Iris Cantor, a collector and philanthropist who provided the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and other US art institutions with millions of dollars worth of support, died on Sunday in Palm Beach, Florida. She was 95, according to a release from her foundation, which did not state a cause. Cantor was a transformative read more
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Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair Returns to Powerhouse Arts This Spring
Announcement Over 50 exhibitors, hands-on programming, and a juried print exhibition make up the fair’s expanded second edition. April 9–12, 2026. Booth view at Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair 2025 (all photos by Gina Curovic) Building on its momentous debut last spring, the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair returns to Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus from read more
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Brooklyn Navy Yard Evicts Drone Manufacturer After Months of Protests
The Brooklyn Navy Yard will not renew the lease of a drone manufacturer that contracts with Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Israeli military, and the Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems after more than a year of activists demanding eviction. The Navy Yard lists Easy Aerial as a “fine art and photography” business, but government read more
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Brooklyn “Wall of Tears” Lists Names of Children Killed in Gaza
News Local artist Phil Buehler said he unveiled the memorial display to help people “see something that they otherwise can’t see.” Phil Buehler’s public art installation “Wall of Tears” in Bushwick (all images Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic) Spanning the 50-foot stretch between a hipster tea shop and a bar proudly displaying anti-ICE posters in Bushwick, a public read more
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