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  Brooklyn Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, New York, is the second largest art museum in the City and one of the largest in the United States.
Opened in 1897, the Brooklyn Museum building is a steel frame structure—built to the standards of classical masonry—designed by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White.
Located in Central Brooklyn, the museum is a half-hour from midtown Manhattan and is serviced by the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum IRT subway 2/3 station, and the nearby Botanic Garden station of the BMT Franklin Avenue Shuttle.
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 Brooklyn Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, New York City, is the second largest art museum in the City and one of the largest in the United States.
Opened in 1897, the Brooklyn Museum building is a steel frame structure built in the appearance of classical masonry, designed by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White.
The Brooklyn Museum is located in central Brooklyn, at the heart of a culturally diverse and rich neighborhood that includes the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Prospect Park, and Mount Prospect Park.
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 Brooklyn Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Opened in 1897, the Brooklyn Museum building is a steel frame structure built in theappearance of classical masonry, designed by the famous architectural firmof McKim, Mead, and White.
The mission of the Brooklyn Museum of Art is to act as a bridge between the richartistic heritage of world cultures, as embodied in its collections, and the unique experience of each visitor.
The Brooklyn Museum is located in central Brooklyn, at the heart of a culturallydiverse and rich neighborhood that includes the BrooklynBotanic Garden, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, ProspectPark, and Mount Prospect Park.
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 AllRefer.com - Brooklyn Museum of Art, Art Museum (Art Museums) - Encyclopedia
Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890).
Opened in 1897, the museum is located in a Beaux-Arts building designed by McKim, Mead, and White that has been substantially added to over the ensuing years.
The museum also presents a variety of special exhibitions and has a large art library and auditorium.
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 Brooklyn Museum: Exhibitions
The Brooklyn Museum presentation was coordinated by Elizabeth A. Easton, Curator and Chair, Department of European Painting and Sculpture.
This installation of the Brooklyn Museum’s American art holdings, considered one of the great collections of its kind in the world, integrates, for the first time, important objects from the Museum’s exceptional collections of paintings and sculpture, decorative arts, Spanish colonial art, and Native American material.
The Brooklyn Museum’s Asian and Islamic art collections are recognized to be among the top collections in the United States, distinguished for their breadth and for individual masterpieces.
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 The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City
The Brooklyn Museum has one of the best collections of Egyptian Art in the world; their permanent collection also includes Classical and Ancient Middle Eastern Art, Arts of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas.
By Bus: B71 to the museum, B41 or B69 to Grand Army Plaza, B48 at Franklin Ave.
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 Artcom Museums Tour: Brooklyn Museum of Art, The
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is one of the nation's premier art institutions.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, through the Department of Cultural Affairs, receives continuing support from the City of New York, which owns the landmark building.
The second largest art museum in New York state and one of the country's premier cultural institutions, The Brooklyn Museum is acclaimed for its collection of select works of art from nearly every culture and period.
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 Brooklyn Museum - AskTheBrain.com
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, an institution that has always had a hard time attracting tourists away from Manhattan, has transformed itself into must-see museum by highlighting the work of controversial artists.
Brooklyn Museum of Art@ Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences Burlington Art Centre - public art museum serving southern Ontario, with exhibitions of regional and national Canadian artists and contemporary ceramics.
Major museums such as the Brooklyn Museum in New York City and the Metropolitan Museum of Art began to acquire his work in 1924.
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 Brooklyn Museum of Art - AskTheBrain.com
Visit the Brooklyn Museum of Art's Site Its too late to evaluate the museum's presentation of this special exhibition for yourself, but we thought you still might be interested in visiting the museum's site and seeing what's currently showing: www.
The jurors were Jon Ippolito, Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim, and Marilyn Kushner, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Brooklyn Museum of Art This exhibition is [co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Pierogi 2000 in cooperation with Momenta Art and ARENA]
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 Brooklyn Museum of Art on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890).
Opened in 1897, the museum is located in a Beaux-Arts building designed by McKim, Mead, and White that has been substantially added to over the ensuing years, including a sweeping glass-roofed entrance pavilion (2004).
The museum is particularly famous for its large collection of ancient Egyptian art and its Egyptological library.
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 Arts Journal: Giuliani v. Brooklyn
The agreement requires city funding of the museum be permanently restored, and that both sides drop their lawsuits and appeals, and pay their own legal fees.
Some 400 academics, arts administrators, students and others gathered in Chicago last weekend to examine the relationship between the arts and society in the wake of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's controversial "Sensation" show.
Brooklyn Preview: Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman's actions while he was director of the Baltimore Museum of Art give some big clues about how he's dealing with Rudy Giuliani.
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 William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886-1890, Brooklyn Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The period of Chase’s interest in painting Brooklyn and Manhattan scenes is clearly demarcated, limited to five summer painting campaigns beginning in 1886 and lasting through 1890 (the year before he began spending the summer seasons teaching at the Shinnecock Summer School of Art at the eastern end of Long Island).
Chase, Gallati argued, was not significantly influenced by Brooklyn’s burgeoning growth and impressive structures and his relationship with the borough "was ambiguous in that he was neither a permanent resident nor a tourist.
With its rather somber palette of murky browns and the pensive pose of his wife sitting in the rowboat with an oar across her lap, this sketch is strangely lyrical.
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 fineArt forum resource directory
The Museum of Bad Art is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms and in all its glory.
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is the oldest fine arts museum in the State of Alabama.
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.
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 Brooklyn Museum of Art
Dating from before the incorporation of the outer boros into the New York City megalopolis, the Brooklyn Museum is a remnant of Brooklyn's own civic heritage, from a time when Kings County was Manhattan's cultural rival.
Manhattan snobs may be under the impression that travelling to the Brooklyn Museum is difficult, it being in one of those "provincial outer boros".
This is far from the case, as the museum is easily accessible by car or public transportation, and less than an hour away from Manhattan's most populous areas.
www.nycgoth.com /more/brooklyn_museum   (212 words)

  
 ★ Brooklyn Museum Of Arts ★   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
That s the message museum curator Pam Hawley sent to council Monday, when she gave a presentation to kick off fundraising to renovate the Fort Frances Museum.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is an extraordinary museum that is...
Milwaukee police are investigating vandalism at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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 Brooklyn Museum of Art's New Entryway - Plans for Lincoln Center - New York Magazine Architecture Review
A new entrance to the Brooklyn Museum and a plan to reinvent Lincoln Center’s north campus add sparkle and spaciousness to aging fortresses.
Both the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Lincoln Center have recently answered the self-corrective call, and each is now emerging with a much blither spirit.
Having tried harder for at least two decades, the Avis of New York museums is at last hitting its stride as a joyous temple of the borough’s renaissance.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/architecture/reviews/n_10278   (1043 words)

  
 FindArticles - Search Alert - Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, New York / Exhibitions
Art in America - Museums in the Age of Giuliani - New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's attempts to censor "Sensation" exhibit at Brooklyn Museum of Art
October 20, 1999 -- THE EXHIBIT AT the Brooklyn Art Museum that has caused a furor in New York and generated reams of material for editorial pages is titled "Sensation."...
October 18, 1999 -- The Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA) in New York recently opened a controversial art exhibit which includes a painting of a Black Madonna, despite threats...
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 IgoUgo: Brooklyn Attractions, Brooklyn Festivals, Things To Do In Brooklyn
One of the largest museums in the country, this local favorite is often overlooked by tourists who are preoccupied with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan.
The museum is noted for showcasing the arts of sometimes neglected cultural groups, particularly tribes from island nations.
And almost everyone in Brooklyn has enjoyed one of the First Saturdays open house evenings at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, when admission is free and folks are treated to live music, snacks, and feature films.
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 Museum of Modern Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Brooklyn is closer than you think -- and with so many great museums, it's worth the short subway ride to check it out.
New York City museums come in every size and genre for every type of visitor.
Partners Participants Partners The Himalayan Art Project (HAP) has had the good fortune to work with several organizations that have contributed significantly to the success of the web...
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 Brooklyn Guide
Despite the fact that Brooklyn is one of the primary bedroom communities for New York City, here there are a lot of things can catch visitors by surprise: Brooklyn's historical buildings and homes, beautiful beaches and waterfront views, ethnically diverse neighborhoods - each with authentic cuisine and life style.
The New York City Marriott Brooklyn Bridge is part of the Renaissance Plaza complex adjacent to Brooklyn's courthouses, municipal buildings and the Metro Tech Center.
Central Brooklyn is a culturally rich neighborhood that includes the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Prospect Park, and Mount Prospect Park.
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 Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The city is renowned for the beauty of its architecture, its urban perspectives and avenues, as well as the wealth of its museums.
Thus, the Brooklyn, Greenwich, or Charlottenburg of Paris are still lying outside of the city of Paris proper, and the city of Paris can be more rightly compared to the borough of Manhattan (59.5 km²/23 sq.
It is feared that the city of Paris is turning into an embalmed museum, with tourists and Amélie ' s nostalgists as its only denizens, while the real economic activity and 21st century development take place elsewhere in the metropolitan area.
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 Art.Net Links: Art Museums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one and a half million objects and represents almost every culture.
The museum's history spans more than 160 years, beginning as a private collection in Washington, D.C., and predating the founding of the Smithsonian itself in 1846.
From "computer art" to "digital art" to "post-modern digital art" to "Cyberart" (Webism), the goal is create art that acculturates by establishing an indigenous art for/from online Cyberculture.
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 artfacts.net: Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States.
One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one and a half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represents almost every culture.
Located in Central Brooklyn, the museum is a half-hour from midtown Manhattan with its own subway stop.
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 Brooklyn Museum of Art
is an art program for children age four to seven and their adult friends.
Each day is different as children explore the galleries, enjoy a family activity, and make their own art.
Presented in the museum's galleries, stories are told by professional storytellers, dancers, musicians, and children's book authors and illustrators.
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 Brooklyn Museum of Art --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It added wings and special facilities over the years, and in 1923 it became the first museum in the United States to exhibit African cast-metal and other objects as art, not as ethnological artifacts.
She studied at the Boston High School of Practical Arts, the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, and...
Information on the collection and exhibitions of the largest nonfederal museum in Washington, D.C. Covers the scope of its art collection with emphasis on early to contemporary American art and a selection of European masterworks.
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