The
Brooklyn Museum’s reinstalled American Art collection includes, from
left, Joseph Stella, “The Virgin”; Emma Amos, “Flower Sniffer”; Kenzo
Okada, “Flower Study”; Loïs Mailou Jones, textile design, 1928,
reproduced on wallpaper by Flavor Paper.
"At 200 years young, the Brooklyn Museum, the second largest art museum in New York City, has begun celebrating the bicentennial of its founding. And it’s doing so in characteristic fashion — meaning in ways that make traditionalists crazy. It is emphatically re-emphasizing what it has, basically, long been: an institution with the heart and soul of an alternative space enclosed in the body of a traditional museum. And it does so with two large-scale season-opening projects. One is a complete rehang and rethink of its American art galleries, filtering centuries of art from two hemispheres through a post-Black Lives Matter lens. The other, less radical, is a community-based roundup of new work by more than 200 contemporary artists living and working in the borough. Let me wedge in some history here. ..."
The American (Art) Study in the Brooklyn Museum offers alternate histories, and lenses, on artworks, updated with ongoing interpretation.
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