Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in Prospect Heights housing 500,000 objects across 560,000 square feet, including ancient Andean textiles, African photography, and the Feminist Art Program, a permanent center that exists nowhere else in the same form.
The Brooklyn Museum holds 500,000 objects across 560,000 square feet of McKim, Mead & White Beaux-Arts building on Eastern Parkway: ancient Andean textiles, Malian portrait photography, Huastec sculpture, oil-on-wood murals, and a permanent feminist art center that exists nowhere else in the same form. The thread running through two centuries of collecting is a refusal to treat scope as neutrality: the museum has consistently pushed back at what counts as art history, from its 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art to its acquisition of 44 works representing the Black Arts Movement in 2012. The question it keeps returning to is whose story the encyclopedic collection actually tells. And who gets to walk in and claim it.
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