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The Brooklyn Museum today announced the creation of two new roles and revealed their inaugurators, Artnews reports. Adjoa Jones de Almeida will serve as deputy director for learning and social impact, while Carolyn Royston joins the museum as deputy director for engagement. Jones de Almeida will move over from the museum’s education division ...
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. In her new role, Turner will be tasked with curating canon-broadening ...
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 ...
The 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 ...
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 ...
Eugenie Tsai, who since 2007 has served as senior curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum, on May 18 announced via Instagram that she is departing the institution. Tsai, who oversaw a number of important exhibitions during her tenure at the museum, named June 30 as her last day there. “All institutions are flawed, but I can’t ...
December 8, 2021 6:36 pm. Kimberly Panicek Trueblood. Photo: Ezra Mechaber. 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. Most recently chief of staff at the American Civil ...
Last fall the Brooklyn Museum’s decision to host the “Brooklyn Real Estate Summit” was widely criticized by local groups. In response, the museum told activists that they would be able to exhibit works in the show “Agitprop!” The museum also agreed to host the “People’s Summit on Displacement and Gentrification.”
By News Desk. March 3, 2009 12:49 pm. The Brooklyn Museum has announced two curatorial appointments: Catherine J. Morris has been named curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Sharon Matt Atkins has been appointed associate curator of exhibitions. Both will join the museum staff in mid-March.
A $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 ...