Rock Hard: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Photo Excavations
LaToya Ruby Frazier, installation view of site-specific wallpaper (2013) at the Brooklyn Museum…
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Two prominent US artists, Nicole Eisenman and LaToya Ruby Frazier, are among the 24 winners of this year’s John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships, often referred to as “genius grants.” The MacArthur Fellows Program awards $625,000 annually to recipients over the course of five years. Eisenman and Frazier were the only contemporary visual artists selected for this year’s honor. Among the other 2015 MacArthur winners are journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, choreographer Michelle Dorrance, writer Ben Lerner, and poet Ellen Bryant Voigt. A complete list of fellows is available on the foundation website.
Artists Nicole Eisenman and LaToya Ruby Frazier Among 2015 MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Winners
Photographs Behind Closed Doors
LaToya Ruby Frazier, “Self Portrait In Gramps’ Pajamas, (227 Holland Avenue)”, 2009, 20 x 24…
Agitprop! ought to be an outstanding exhibition of politically engaged art. A feverish amalgam of historic and contemporary artwork, the exhibition is undermined by an ambitious but poorly executed curatorial strategy.
Brooklyn Museum’s Activist Art Show Is a Messy Collision of Curation and Politics
Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he would retire from his position as the director of the Brooklyn Museum. The news was big: Lehman had been at the helm since 1997, and over the course of those 17-plus years, he reshaped the institution in his image in many ways.
On Leaving the Brooklyn Museum After 17 Years: An Interview with Arnold Lehman
NYC Cultural Institutions Have Pension Payments Withheld While City Examines “Anomalies”
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The New York Times reported yesterday that New York City is withholding payments this fiscal year into a pension system for many cultural centers with city contracts, such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Basically, the city is asking if the amount they have to pay into the retirement system has been overstated in the bookkeeping of these places.
(via Brooklyn Museum Goes Free for Those Under 20)
Starting September 3, the Brooklyn Museum will be free for visitors under 20, while the suggested general admission fees for adults will go up to $16 (previously $12), and $10 (previously $8) for adults 62+ and students with valid ID.
We received the following image in our inbox from a reader who spotted this a few weeks ago. It’s a flier created in response to the Brooklyn Museum’s decision to cancel the Art in the Streets street art/graffiti/skateboarding exhibition next year “due to the current financial climate”:
I live … across the street from the Brooklyn Museum. I was just cleaning out a pile of papers on my desk and saw this flyer I had saved. A few weeks ago I was walking my dog on Eastern Parkway and saw these fliers all up and down the stretch in front of the museum. I support my neighborhood musuem, but thought you guys might be interested in a snapshot before I threw it out.
This evening the Brooklyn Museum revealed that Anne Pasternak will succeed Arnold Lehman as the institution’s director. Pasternak has been the president and artistic director of Creative Time, the nonprofit known for presenting major art commissions in unconventional spaces, since 1994.
Creative Time’s Anne Pasternak Will Take the Helm at the Brooklyn Museum
