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Jun 12, 2024 · The Brooklyn residence of Anne Pasternak, director of the Brooklyn Museum, was defaced by vandals on the evening of June 11. Strung across the entrance to the apartment building was a banner reading “Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacist Zionist” in large letters; repeated three times below, in a smaller font, were the words ...
Darienne Turner Named Brooklyn Museum’s First Full-Time
Jun 16, 2023 · “The Brooklyn Museum’s collection is simply remarkable, and I am thrilled to work alongside brilliant colleagues and Native community members to share it with the public,” Turner said. “The opportunity to re-present a historic collection at an institution dedicated to rethinking representation was one I couldn’t pass up.
Brooklyn Museum Announces Kimberly Panicek Trueblood as …
Dec 8, 2021 · New York’s Brooklyn Museum has appointed Kimberly Panicek Trueblood as its new president and chief operating officer. Trueblood’s wealth of experience lies not in the art world but in the public-service sector.
After Controversial Hire, Activists Call for Brooklyn Museum to …
Apr 5, 2018 · The activist collective Decolonize This Place has released an open letter demanding that the Brooklyn Museum do more to address the controversy that has ensued after the museum hired Kristen Windmuller-Luna, a white woman, as its consulting curator for African art. Specifically, the group is urging that the museum introduce a “Decolonization ...
PRO-PALESTINE DEMONSTRATORS TAKE THEIR MESSAGE TO …
Feb 13, 2024 · Pro-Palestinian protesters over the weekend staged rallies at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, both in New York; disrupted a reading by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof; and mounted a sit-in at the British Museum in London in response to the institution’s deal with oil-and-gas conglomerate BP.
Brooklyn Museum Names Adjoa Jones de Almeida and Carolyn
Jan 21, 2022 · Before arriving at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013, Jones de Almeida founded the Bahia, Brazil–based organizations Sista II Sista in 1996 and Diáspora Solidária about a decade later. In her new post, she will continue to lead the education division and to oversee the museum’s public programs and community engagement teams.
Brooklyn Museum Elects Barbara M. Vogelstein to Chair its
Jun 10, 2016 · The Brooklyn Museum has announced that, as of today, Barbara M. Vogelstein will succeed Elizabeth A. Sackler as chair of the institution’s board of trustees. Vogelstein, who served on the board from 2001 to 2010 and again since 2015, said, “I am delighted to join Anne Pasternak, the Shelby White and Leon Levy director of the museum, as she ...
Brooklyn Museum Receives Historic $50 Million Gift from New …
Nov 23, 2021 · A $50 million gift to the Brooklyn Museum announced yesterday by outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio marks the largest donation in the museum’s history. The windfall from the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs is the upshot of the shrewd politicking from Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak, who came to de Blasio in June 2020 ...
BROOKLYN MUSEUM CONTINUES DEACCESSIONING SPREE
Oct 16, 2020 · No doubt spurred on by the tremendous success of its first deaccession sale, which saw the institution reap $5.4 million ($6.6 million with fees), an amount considerably beyond its expectations, the Brooklyn Museum is planning another deaccessioning round. On the block this time will be works by Degas, Dubuffet, Matisse, Miró, and Monet.
UNIONIZED BROOKLYN MUSEUM WORKERS RATIFY INAUGURAL …
Nov 8, 2023 · Since organizing in August 2021, the Brooklyn Museum union had struggled gain a fair contract, for which they had been bargaining since January 2022. In an effort to secure an equitable agreement, the union in September of that year filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Review Board (NLRB), averring that the museum ...