Friday, July 30, 2010

Exhibitions at Brooklyn Museum of Art (website), New York


Among the current exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art these are some of the highlights:

American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection
To mark the new relationship between the Brooklyn Museum and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum presents an exhibition of some of the most renowned objects from its costume collection.
Also a a great initiative of reviving the visible storage concept on view is the Luce Visible Storage Center for American Art:

The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage ▪ Study Center offers you an inside look at how museums work and provides a glimpse of the breadth and scope of the Brooklyn Museum's extensive American collections.  
The Visible Storage ▪ Study Center is a working Museum facility as much as other storerooms throughout the building that are not open to the public.
 As part of the new facilities the museum offers the study Center and research program that:

This program allows you to access information about the approximately 2,000 objects on view in the Luce Center's Visible Storage • Study Center and the adjacent American Identities galleries.
Links for more information:
Brooklyn Museum of Art
American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection, exhibit
Luce Visible Storage Center for American Art and Study Center and research program

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