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African Innovations in New York

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

The Brooklyn Museum is one of the largest in the U.S. and the second largest in New York City. However, it would have been even four times larger if the planning regulations had not obliged in 1895 to make an alteration of the original plan leading to the reduction of its excessive size. The current building was opened in 1897, but until the decade of the seventies of the twentieth century, the museum did not own its independence, being a subdivision of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts, Letters and Sciences, which also included the Academy of Music, The Botanical Gardens Museum and the popular Infancy Museum of the New York district. The size and variety of its collections is at the height of its huge number of square meters and its spectrum ranges from stunning masterpieces of ancient Egypt to the Center for Feminist Art Elizabeth A. Sackler, which displays, among other pieces, the seminal installation of Judy Chicago´s “Dinner” Within this impressive array of exhibits, the collection of African art (in fact the Brooklyn Museum was one of the first to present an exhibition of African art in American territory, in 1923), comprised of more than 5000 pieces that run more than 2500 years of history,makes it the largest of all existing in the United States and is especially outstanding In the last year this extraordinary collection has undergone a meticulous process of reorganization that has finally culminated in a new way of presenting the pieces based on chronological and contextual criteria which moves aside the until now eminently geographical approach This new presentation of these parts is... read more