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Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
(at Washington Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 11238
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Fri, Feb 24, 2012, 11 am – Sun, Aug 26, 2012, 6 pmPlaying House is the first in a series of installations that aim to engage visitors with the Brooklyn Museum’s period rooms. Artists Betty Woodman, Anne Chu, Ann Agee and Mary Lucier have been invited to place site-specific artwork in eight of the museum’s historic rooms, which have been interpreted by curators over the years to illustrate how Americans of various times, economic levels, and locations lived.
The artists were asked to consider these factors when developing their ideas. The project originated with Woodman's observation that although being an artist means confronting the art of the past, no one can enter the past—except through “make believe,” or “playing house,” by which the past can be appropriated.
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Brooklyn MuseumRepresenting many of the world's great cultures, the collection of the Brooklyn Museum comprises 1.5 million artworks. The magnificent six-story, 450,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts building was designed in 1893 by the renowned firm of McKim, Mead & White.
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Fri, March 16, 2012 – Sun, July 8, 2012 The exhibition chronicles the period in Haring’s career from his arrival in New York City through the years when he started his studio practice and began making public and political art on the city streets.
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Extended Family: Contemporary Connections
Ongoing A new installation of contemporary art presents recent acquisitions displayed along with notable works that have entered the collection over the past five decades. The presentation focuses on familial relationships, broadening the definition of family to include larger groups or communities united by shared values, identities, lifestyles, or emotional needs. Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, now on view through summer of 2010, includes some forty works.
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Ongoing Two mummies, a 24-foot scroll, figurines and canopic jars used to store vital organs are part of the objects on view from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings.