suggested donation » brooklyn museum http://suggesteddonation.com museums, libraries, and archives Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:49:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Playing hide and seek with Yinka Shonibare http://suggesteddonation.com/lets-get-critical/playing-hide-and-seek-with-yinka-shonibare http://suggesteddonation.com/lets-get-critical/playing-hide-and-seek-with-yinka-shonibare#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:20:13 +0000 moetown http://suggesteddonation.com/?p=1254 Brooklyn Museum period roomI’ve never quite understood the concept of reassembling historic rooms, putting a red velvet rope around it, and funneling tourists on a counter-intuitive path through a house, castle, or museum. But once Yinka Shonibare placed child figures ducking under desks…

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Leaving his exhibit on the first floor of the Brooklyn Museum, I felt a bit cheated. I didn’t expect the majority of Shonibare’s survey to be film. But the map revealed there was more –the large-scale game of hide and seek brought me through other galleries to find those little figures in their clothes of “patterned Dutch wax fabric produced in Europe for a West African market” inside rooms that could easily have belonged to colonists.  According to the exhibition’s website, another site-specific installation, Party Time—Re-Imagine America: A Centennial Commission by Yinka Shonibare MBE,  will be on view at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey, from July 1, 2009, to January 3, 2010, in the dining room of the museum’s 1885 Ballantine House.  Would it be cheating to use 20th century transportation?

]]> http://suggesteddonation.com/lets-get-critical/playing-hide-and-seek-with-yinka-shonibare/feed 2 BK Museum, you my only friend http://suggesteddonation.com/world-wide-web-world/bk-museum-you-my-only-friend http://suggesteddonation.com/world-wide-web-world/bk-museum-you-my-only-friend#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:54:07 +0000 Andy Van Slyke http://www.suggesteddonation.com/?p=501 Well, this is the shit. The Brooklyn Museum has released their online collections API. This follows a string of smart, with-it moves, such as the "Tag you're it" crowdsourcing project and contributions to the Flickr Commons project. Oh, and Dance Parties! Afro-tech this Saturday! If only they weren't sponsored by that big trendy department store. Sigh. ]]> apiWell, this is the shit. The Brooklyn Museum has released their online collections API. This follows a string of smart, with-it moves, such as the “Tag you’re it” crowdsourcing project and contributions to the Flickr Commons project.

Oh, and Dance Parties! Afro-tech this Saturday! If only they weren’t sponsored by that big trendy department store. Sigh.

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