A quick tour of the behind-the-scenes goings on at the Brooklyn Museum as we work to reinstall the Arts of the Islamic World. The gallery re-opens on June 6, 2009.

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Artist Valerie Hegarty discusses her work, Fallen Bierstadt, in the Brooklyn Museum exhibition 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum

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Tagging is the process of applying your keywords to our collection objects to aid people who are searching our collection online. Your tags will help everyone find objects in our collections. Join the Brooklyn Museum Posse and play Tag! You're It!

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Off The Wall with Michelle Maryk. In the galleries of the Brooklyn Museum, curator Terry Carbone discusses The Mellow Pad by artist Stuart Davis. This series was produced by Gallery HD, a channel dedicated to visual art and the artistic process, catering to a wide array of art lovers. Through visually stunning imagery and compelling storytelling, GALLERY HD is the first and only HD channel that defines the most talked-about artists of today and tomorrow. http://www.voom.tv/galleryhd.h tml

Stuart Davis (American, 1894--1964). The Mellow Pad, 1945--51. Oil on canvas, 26 1/4 x 42 1/8 in. (66.7 x 107 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.6

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Off The Wall with Michelle Maryk. In the galleries of the Brooklyn Museum, curator Terry Carbone discusses Letitia Wilson Jordan by artist Thomas Eakins. This series was produced by Gallery HD, a channel dedicated to visual art and the artistic process, catering to a wide array of art lovers. Through visually stunning imagery and compelling storytelling, GALLERY HD is the first and only HD channel that defines the most talked-about artists of today and tomorrow. http://www.voom.tv/galleryhd.h tml

Thomas Eakins (American, 1844--1916). Letitia Wilson Jordan, 1888. Oil on canvas, 59 15/16 x 40 3/16 in. (152.3 x 102 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 27.50

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Off The Wall with Michelle Maryk. In the galleries of the Brooklyn Museum, curator Edward Bleiberg discusses Bird Lady. This series was produced by Gallery HD, a channel dedicated to visual art and the artistic process, catering to a wide array of art lovers. Through visually stunning imagery and compelling storytelling, GALLERY HD is the first and only HD channel that defines the most talked-about artists of today and tomorrow. http://www.voom.tv/galleryhd.h tml

Female Figurine ("Bird Lady"). Egypt, from Ma'mariyah. Predynastic Period, Naqada II, circa 3650-3300 b.c. Terracotta, painted, 11 1/2 in. (29.3 cm) high. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 07.447.505

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This piece by Mary Temple is being featured in the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed during February 2009.

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Mary Temple
Currency
2007-present

On September 24, 2007 the president of Iran spoke at Columbia University amid protests and much controversy. I found the event, coverage and images of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compelling and made some drawings of him from various Webbased news sources. The drawings piqued my interest in him as a character—I wanted to know more about his history as well as Irans past. Drawing him expanded my thinking about world events. Ive continued to make a drawing of a world leader every day since then. My goal in the beginning was simply to concentrate on one event each day—to try to grasp a minuscule portion of the barrage of information that surrounds each of us in a 24-hour news cycle. As the research and drawings accumulated, I found that the news events marked my own personal history as well as delineating a (biased) global event time line. In order to underscore that relationship, and the diaristic nature of the undertaking, I hung the drawings in a calendar format—7 day (columns) across, and 5 to 6 week (rows) down. I placed the drawings on the page according to my own feelings of optimism or pessimism regarding the days event, the higher on the page the greater my hope for world harmony.

Each evening I select a story and the character (a world leader), draw a portrait in pen and ink on a tabloid size sheet of paper, and record the event with an image caption at the bottom of the page. The drawing is then scanned and emailed to a museum. Every morning the museum staff receives my email scan, prints the portrait on a similar tabloid size sheet of handmade paper and hangs it in a gallery next to the previous days drawings in the calendar grid. Entire calendar years accumulate in this way.

The title, of the piece, Currency, most obviously references my desire and attempt to keep current of world events, to try to understand some of what is happening in the world. It also refers to something that fascinates me about an industry that trades in a product that is only valuable until the moment it is heard, at which time it instantly loses its value. Yesterdays news is an artifact which no longer has currency or power as a trade worthy item. The title Currency also refers to the scale of the portraits themselves, which might evoke a bank note or dollar bill portrait, the image of power and money entwined.

-Mary Temple

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Artist An Xiao discusses her concept for the 1stfans Twitter Art Feed.

An Xiao
http://www.anxiaostudio.com
http://thatwaszen.blogspot.com

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First Place Winner of the 2007 Brooklyn Museum Video Competition. Panel of judges included Christina Norman, President of MTV Music Television; Danny Simmons of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation; and Patrick Amsellem, Associate Curator of Photography at the Brooklyn Museum.

Charles Grantham as Mr. Cool.

Music: All is Perfect by Moby /used by permission/.

Produced in HD by iRolls

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A PSA for Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays.

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PSA for Brooklyn Museum, First Saturday Video Contest

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