To better integrate blogging with our own website, we are moving! We have consolidated our blogging efforts into two new blogs, both of which are now hosted at www.brooklynmuseum.org:

| bloggers@brooklynmuseum | Behind-the-scenes collection and conservation blogging at the Brooklyn Museum

| feminist.bloggers@brooklynmuseum | Feminist art, news, and events from the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

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Saturday, June 2, 2007
2–4 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd floor

Faith Ringgold's inspiring and often humorous stories illustrate her personal journey and beliefs as an artist, activist, author, teacher, and parent. Her talk focuses on art and activism from the 1960s and 1970s to the present, and how she came to use painting, fabrics, quilt-making, and storytelling to create an extensive body of work containing paintings, soft sculpture, masks, and performances. Be inspired by Faith Ringgold's talk and create your own quilt square in the Museum's Beaux-Arts Court.

About Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold, painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist lives and works in Englewood, New Jersey. Ringgold is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, where she taught art from 1987 until 2002.

Professor Ringgold is the recipient of more than 75 awards, including eighteen Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees. She has received fellowships and grants that include the National Endowment For the Arts Award for sculpture (1978) and for painting (1989), the La Napoule Foundation Award for painting in France (1990), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for painting (1987), among others. Her art is included in many private and public art collections, and has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.S., Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Africa.

Ringgold has written and illustrated a total of fourteen children's books, including her first published book, the award-winning Tar Beach, "a book for children of all ages." Tar Beach was published by Random House in 1991 and has won more than 30 awards, including a Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King award for the best illustrated children's book of 1991. Ringgold has a history of juring and curating exhibitions, and supports the talent, effort, dedication, and creativity of emerging artists.

The Eye of the Artist: The Work of Devorah Sperber has been extended through June 17, 2007. Go behind the scenes at Flickr or hear Devorah talk about her work on the podcast.

Join us!

The Brooklyn Museum presents a benefit dance party following the Brooklyn Ball

Thursday, April 26, 2007
9 p.m.–12 a.m.
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, Brooklyn Museum

Live music by Shrine for the Black Madonna and the Rev. Vince Anderson Turntable sets by DJ Rekha

Individual tickets start at $75. Ticket information is available through the Special Events Office at (718) 501-6423.

www.brooklynmuseum.org/after_party.php

BrooklyNites
Wednesday, April 18
5–9 p.m.
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st floor

BrooklyNites is a new weekday night program, held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month, featuring live jazz performances and gallery talks at the Brooklyn Museum. In conjunction with the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and its inaugural exhibitions, Global Feminisms and Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses, the month of April highlights female jazz vocalists. Somi headlines the event.

Performances

5–6 p.m.: Deborah Latz Jazz Quartet

Deborah Latz, a passionate songstress with a sexy, sultry style, sings familiar French chansons and great American standards.

6:30–8:30 p.m.: Somi with Toru Dodo, Daniel Moreno, Massimo Biolcati, and Herve Samb.

Vocalist Somi celebrates her East African heritage blending jazz, soul, and African folk. Her new CD Red Soil In My Eyes is being released on Harmonia Mundi/World Village Records this month.

Gallery Talks

6 p.m.: Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism
7:30 p.m.: Global Feminisms

Tickets are $10 ($5 for Museum Members). Cash bar 5–9 p.m. Happy hour 5–6 p.m. Parking is a flat rate of $4 beginning at 5 p.m. All programs are subject to change.

www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/brooklynites.php

We've got a ton of events for the opening weekend. Everything from Members Previews, ribbon cuttings, book signings, and talks and performances. Check out the full schedule here.

In addition, we are thrilled to announce that in conjunction with the exhibition Global Feminisms, feminist artists from more than fifty countries are discussing or performing their works. Talks and performances take place every half-hour in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art—the full schedule can be found here.

Judy Chicago will be joining us to sign books on Thursday, March 22, from 2 to 3 p.m., during special preview hours. (Members will be admitted from 12 to 5 p.m.) She will also sign books from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., during the opening celebration.

Join us April 7th from 5-11pm and celebrate the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art!

"On January 29 we turned the block over and got a real surprise: a gilded and painted raised relief lintel. We immediately called the local SCA officials. Mansour Boreik, General Director for Luxor and Ibrahim Soliman, Director for Karnak examined the newly-discovered object with SCA inspector Ahmed Araby Yunis. Drs. Boreik and Soliman decided it was a significant enough find to be reported to the main SCA offices in Cairo. The Egyptian government decided that the lintel was of sufficient significance that its discovery should be announced formally by Farok Hosni, Egyptian Minister of Culture. They also determined that it really belongs in the Luxor Museum, where visitors can enjoy it."

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The Brooklyn Museum’s first online exhibition, presenting Ando Hiroshige’s series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1866−68) in its entirety, has been launched on the Museum’s Web site, with new digital photography. The Museum’s remarkable set of One Hundred Famous Views is among the most famous masterpieces in the collection. These fragile works on paper, only rarely on view in the galleries, can be explored online by the season they depict or by a number of different subject categories. The online exhibition also includes fascinating historical background on the artist and on the city of Edo (now Tokyo), a guide to how to look at Japanese woodblock prints, and commentary on the individual prints and how these works are being conserved at the Museum. www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/edo/