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Fast Forward Deborah Kass’ iconic ‘OY/YO’ sculpture covered by Palestinian flag in Brooklyn Museum protest
The piece was not damaged during the weekend demonstration, which also included banners displayed inside the museum building
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Culture Robert S. Rubin, Who Spearheaded The Brooklyn Museum’s Battle Against Rudy Giuliani, Dies at 86
Robert S. Rubin, a philanthropist and investment banker, has died at 86. As chairman of the board of the Brooklyn Museum, Rubin defended the institution from censorship after then-mayor Rudy Giuliani took offense at one of its planned exhibits. His son Nathaniel told The New York Times’s Sam Roberts that the cause of Rubin’s death…
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Food Exploring Israel Through Food, Film & Photography
Cooking is a creative outlet for me— as much about developing beautiful flavors, aromas, colors and textures as about getting dinner on the table. While I know it’s not like that for everyone, it seems to me that there’s a strong connection between art and food in general. Certainly many of my friends who are…
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Culture ‘Crossing Brooklyn’ Scratches Surface of Hyperlocal Potential in Hippest Borough
Oy, the Brooklyn Museum, that large white creature of Eastern Parkway, how it wants to belong and be loved! It’s nothing if not willing to change. It changed its name twice between 1997 and 2004. Ten years ago it spent millions of dollars to literally open itself up to the surrounding neighborhood, replacing its entrance…
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Life The Women of Pop — and Their Once-Shocking Art
While walking through “Seductive Subversion,” the Brooklyn Museum’s new exhibition on female Pop artists between 1958 – 1968, I was interrupted by a family of tourists who burst into the gallery and made a beeline for “Accumulation, No. 1,” a soft sculpture piece by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama featuring a white armchair covered with fabric…
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