The museum has suffered from rising costs and lower attendance. The cuts followed those at the Brooklyn Museum, which trimmed 10 percent of its staff this month.
Category: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Employees and Scale Back Exhibitions
The museum, which faces a projected $10 million deficit, said it planned to cut more than a tenth of its employees and mount fewer exhibitions.
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Paul McCartney Talks About His Beatles’ Photos Coming to the Brooklyn Museum
Sixty years after the Beatles appeared live on “Ed Sullivan,” McCartney reflects on his photos capturing those halcyon days. The Brooklyn Museum will exhibit them, and some will be for sale later.
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Kim Kardashian Cozies Up to Balenciaga
And so does Patricia Field. Plus, Zac Posen creates high-society costumes, a tutu sells for $52,000 and a fashion curator gets knighted.
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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz Bring Art Collection to Brooklyn Museum
Next month, over 100 works by Black art stars from the couple’s collection will travel to the Great Hall for “Giants.”
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A Spike Lee Joint via Movie Posters and Sports Jerseys
Lee, the director of “Do the Right Thing” and “Malcolm X,” donated more than 400 items for a Brooklyn Museum exhibition.
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6 Picasso Shows to See This Year
Fifty years after his death, the Cubist painter will be featured in art exhibitions in New York, Paris and Madrid.
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Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too Extreme
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:At the Brooklyn Museum, a tribute to fashion’s showman who built temples out of curves and proved clothing had metamorphic properties.
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Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:The photographer moved effortlessly between scenes: No Wave music, performance, queer subcultures, downtown nightlife, the Pictures Generation and mail art.