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The Brooklyn Museum changed its name to Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1997. [180] According to acting director Linda S. Ferber, the renaming was necessary because "there was more confusion about the museum's identity than we supposed"; for instance, many visitors still believed the museum had natural-history exhibits, which had not been the case ...
Cox has "dedicated her career to deconstructing stereotypes and to reconfiguring the black woman's body, using her nude form as a subject." [5] She uses herself as a primary model in order to promote an idea of "self-love" as articulated by bell hooks in her book Sisters of the Yam, because as Cox writes in an artist's statement, "slavery stripped black men and women of their dignity and ...
Kia LaBeija's work primarily is photography and dance. [5] Her series 24 investigates her relationship to growing up with HIV as a woman of color in New York City. [5] Her works have been included in group exhibitions, performances, and screenings at dozens of museums around the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Tate Modern, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum in ...
Jennifer Bartlett (née Losch; March 14, 1941 – July 25, 2022) was an American artist and novelist. She was best known for paintings and prints that combine the system-based aesthetic of conceptual art with the painterly approach of Neo-Expressionism.
George Peck (born 1941) is a New York-based visual artist. Born in Hungary, his work has appeared in exhibitions across the United States and Europe, and his work is represented in such museums as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Kiscelli Museum in Budapest, and Museum of Modern Art in ...
Kelly was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and studied at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.A. 1978). [2] [3] [4]His paintings have been acquired by public and private collections in Europe and the United States, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, [5] New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; [6] Milwaukee Art Museum ...
Calla Lilly, c. 1875, Brooklyn Museum of Art Fidelia Bridges, May one of a series of twelve color print illustrations, 1876, collection of the Boston Public Library. Fidelia Bridges was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to Henry Gardiner Bridges (1789-1849), a sea captain, [2] and Eliza (Chadwick) Bridges. (1791-1850).
Self portrait, 1848. Lilly Martin Spencer was born in Exeter, England, to French-born parents Gilles Marie Martin and Angelique Perrine lePetit Martin.In 1830, when Lilly was eight, her family immigrated to New York where they remained for three years before ultimately moving to Marietta, Ohio.