Protesters demanded that the New York City institution sever ties with donors financially connected to Israel.
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A Peek Into the Brooklyn Museum’s Latest Acquisitions
Works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Dyani White Hawk, Emily Sargent, and Hisako Hibi are among the 300 pieces joining the museum’s collection.
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Averting Strike, Brooklyn Museum Union Ratifies First Contract
The union secured wage increases and other wins just a day before a planned strike deadline and amid an ongoing unfair labor practices complaint.
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Brooklyn Museum Union Plans Strike as Contract Negotiations Stall
Citing “low salaries and lack of real career development,” workers say they will strike on November 8 if an agreement is not reached.
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A Deep Dive Into the Underground World of Zines
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, opening next month at the Brooklyn Museum, will feature nearly a thousand works by almost 100 artists.
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What Would a Truly Critical Picasso Exhibition Look Like?
A 21st-century institution cannot center Picasso’s legacy without also foregrounding the global forms, artists, and practices that remain omitted from the Euro-American canon of Cubist and Abstract art.
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Why You Should Go See Hannah Gadsby’s It’s Pablo-matic
The male-dominated art establishment has always used Pablo Picasso’s “genius” to marginalize women. On the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the only show to challenge that.
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Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Is a Victim of Its Hype
It’s Pablo-matic is not a great exhibition, but it’s also not the catastrophe that some people have described.
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Brooklyn’s “Little Liberty” Is Leaving New York
After 17 years in the Brooklyn Museum’s parking lot, the statue is headed to the Midwest for restoration at the National Building Arts Center in Illinois.
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Brooklyn Museum Workers Say They’re “Overworked and Underpaid”
“We’re not going away and we’re going to keep making ourselves visible,” the workers said while picketing a museum fundraising event for the second time.
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Did You Know These Museums Were Free for New Yorkers?
The “Free Admission” campaign is advocating to make ticket pricing information more transparent to visitors, who may be confused or misled by institutions’ language.
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The “Society Photographer” of NYC’s Downtown Underground
Jimmy DeSana’s work remains transgressive, even by today’s standards.
