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Happy Friday! It’s time for another round of Art History Pop Quiz! For this week’s kid-friendly edition, the #ASKbkm team has formulated questions for your little ones about some of the Museum’s most colorful works. View the quiz now on Twitter or in our Instagram stories,  and don’t forget to check out past quizzes in our Story Highlights!

Sora Mitsuaki (Japanese, born 1933). [Untitled] (Abstract Image in Eight Colors), 1976. © Sora Mitsuaki.

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#Repost @brooklynmuseum • • • • • • Brooklyn Museum Good question! It depends on the material. With stone, it was mainly about the value and durability and what level of quality a person could afford. Interestingly, this Metjetji sculpture you're looking at is highly valuable because it's made of wood. Wood was very rare in ancient Egypt and had to be imported. It's also rare archaeologically because it does not survive as well as stone. Because of this, there are not as many wooden examples in museums. Have a question on your next visit at the Museum? Download our #askbkm app and ask away. #osiris #temple#god#isis#sobek #egyptian#egipto#egypt#egitto#pharaohs#faraones#tutankamon#dinastía#artegyptian#artegypt#anticoegipto#ancientegypt#museodelcairo #egiptologia#egyptoloyi#Giza#museoegizio#museoegiziotorino#metropolitanmuseum#britishmuseum #museoegizio #amazingegypt#metropolitan#britishmuseum#neuesmuseum#museumcairo#egyptianjewelry (at Brooklyn Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA4t5YShayi/?igshid=1vm4jbpe8o19o

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#Repost @brooklynmuseum with @repostapp ・・・ The beautiful blue of Madonna's cloak was made using the pigment ultramarine, derived from the precious blue mineral lapis lazuli. Found in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, lapis had been laboriously mined by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans from early antiquity. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, it began to be ground into powder and made into ultramarine, quickly becoming the finest and most expensive pigment of them all. Also, be sure to visit #infinitebluebkm on the first floor which features works from our collection that track the use of the color blue throughout history. Have a question on your next visit at the Museum? Download our #askbkm app and ask away.

[stepaindesign]

#Repost @brooklynmuseum with @repostapp ・・・ The winged figures are cherubim, which are very common in religious Renaissance paintings. They are a type of angel usually depicted as cute, round faced angels with red wings. They are regarded in traditional Christian symbolism as an angel of the second highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy. But here they are depicted as winged heads. They were originally painted silver, but over time tarnishing has made them turn more reddish. Have a question on your next visit at the Museum? Download our #askbkm app and ask away.

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The free ASK Brooklyn Museum app connects visitors with museum experts. It's now available on Android + iPhone! 

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Want to learn more about an artist in our collection? Download our Ask Brooklyn Museum app and chat with one of our experts!⁠  💬

Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit, 1927-2013). The Enchanted Owl, 1960. Stone cut on paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of George Klauber, 1998.122. © artist or artist's estate 

[brooklynmuseum]

Time to stop monkeying around and take our brand new Art History Pop Quiz! This week, the ASK Brooklyn Museum engagement team has crafted questions focused on the most-asked-about artworks in our Ancient Egyptian collection. Head to our Instagram Stories or Twitter feed to play along.

Figure of Monkey Seated on Ovoid Base, ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E. Creative Commons-BY. Brooklyn Museum

[brooklynmuseum]

Earth Day may not be until next week, but you can celebrate a few days early with today’s Art History Pop Quiz! This time around, our ASK Brooklyn Museum team has penned a set of kid-friendly questions about works in our collection centered on the animal kingdom. Take the quiz now on our Instagram or Twitter feed, and don’t forget to check out past quizzes in our Instagram story highlights!

Edward Hicks (American, 1780-1849). The Peaceable Kingdom, ca. 1833-1834. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 40.340

[brooklynmuseum]

"Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of his daughters Rosalba and Eleanor always reminds me of one of my first visits to the Brooklyn Museum, when I was a student at Fordham University and I chose this work as my subject for an essay assignment. Over my five years at the Museum, I’ve been able to share this painting with other visitors in various ways, including gallery tours and with our ASK app. I still say 'hello' to these women whenever I walk by, taking a moment to notice their graceful interconnected pose and the painter’s palette and sheet music—evidence of their own talents—on the table behind them. More and more, this portrait encourages me to reflect on continuity and close bonds between family members, between female friends, and between people who experience or make art together." 

Posted by Jessica Murphy Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860). The Sisters (Eleanor and Rosalba Peale), 1826. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, 67.205.3 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

[brooklynmuseum]

This year marks Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, so this month we’ll be featuring works from the collection along with commentary from Whitman’s writings.

In the 1850s, Walt Whitman frequented an exhibition of Egyptian artifacts now part of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. He befriended the original collector, Dr. Henry Abbott, and even read through a two-volume history of ancient Egypt (a rare feat for the poet, who notoriously left books unfinished). The royal effect and calm expression of statues like this one resonated with Whitman, who called the Egyptian collection “a place to go when one would ponder and evolve great thoughts.”

Continue the Whitman celebrations on October 25, when we unveil a new artwork inspired by the famous Brooklynite in One: Xu Bing and use the #ASKBKM app to tour the Museum in the author’s footsteps.

Posted by Forrest Pelsue Head of an Early Eighteenth Dynasty King, ca. 1539-1493 B.C.E. Sandstone, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.38E. Creative Commons-BY 

[brooklynmuseum]

It’s time for another round of Art History Pop Quiz! For the second edition, our ASK Brooklyn Museum team is celebrating the final Friday of Women’s History Month with a set of questions highlighting some of the wonderful womxn in our collection. Head to our Instagram stories or Twitter feed now to take this week’s quiz, and be sure to let us know how you did!⁠ ⁠ 

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842). Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Czernin, 1793. Oil on canvas. 

[brooklynmuseum]

It’s time for another round of Art History Pop Quiz! This week, our #ASKbkm team has brewed up a set of kid-friendly questions focused on fun and games for your little ones at home. Head to our Instagram stories or Twitter feed now to take this week’s quiz, and be sure to let us know how you did!⁠

Gloria Caranica (American, born 1931). "Rocking Beauty" Hobby Horse, designed 1964-1966. Creative Commons-BY.I

[brooklynmuseum]

During closure we’re eager to connect with you, our community, in fun and engaging ways. Today on our Instagram stories, we are excited to launch Art History Pop Quiz, a new series that quizzes your knowledge of works in the Museum. Join us each week as our ASK Brooklyn Museum team picks your brain with a new set of questions!⁠

Play along now and let us know how you do!

⁠Deborah Kass (American, born 1952) OY/YO, 2015. Painted aluminum. Courtesy of the artist. © 2018 Deborah Kass / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. #oyyo

[brooklynmuseum]

In celebration of Pride Month, we’re exploring LGBTQ+ artists and themes currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum.

In this portrait, Luigi Lucioni captures the piercing gaze of his close friend and openly gay artist Paul Cadmus. Once a lighting rod for controversy, Cadmus is now posthumously celebrated for his frank and often satirical depictions of gay life in 1930s and 40s New York. “People say my paintings are not right for the times,” Cadmus once said in response to his critics. “But can I help it if the times are wrong? If I'm the only one that's right, it's all right.”

To learn and see more, be sure to check out our ASK Pride Tour, available at the Museum through the ASK Brooklyn Museum app.

Luigi Lucioni (American, born Italy, 1900-1988). Paul Cadmus, 1928. Oil on canvas. #BrooklynMuseum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2007.28 #BKMAmericanart

[brooklynmuseum]

This year marks Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, so this month we’ll be featuring works from the collection along with commentary from Whitman’s writings.

Walt Whitman and his friend William Sidney Mount both grew up in rural Long Island. Whitman’s poem “A Song of Joys” revels in a childhood full of companionship and adventure on the Island’s shores and farms. As he wrote, “O to go back to the place where I was born, / To hear the birds sing once more, / To ramble about the house and barn and over the fields once more, / And through the orchards and along the old lanes once more…” The poem has a pastoral appeal similar to Mount’s art, like this painting, which depicts a group of young men escaping their duties with a noonday nap.

Continue the Whitman celebrations on October 25, when we unveil a new artwork inspired by the famous Brooklynite in One: Xu Bing and use the ASK Brooklyn Museum app to tour the Museum in the author’s footsteps.

Posted by Matthew Ward William Sidney Mount (American, 1807-1868). Caught Napping (Boys Caught Napping in a Field), 1848. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 39.608 

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In celebration of Pride Month, we’re exploring LGBTQ+ artists and themes currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. 

Donald Moffet is an artist, activist, and self identified gay man who participated in the ACT UP movement in the 1980s. With a background in Biology, he creates remarkably organic constructions in paint. The technique used to create the textured, three dimensional surface of this work was inspired by a cake-decorating class Moffett took in the early 1990’s to cope with the losses he experienced at the hands of the AIDS epidemic.

To learn and see more, be sure to check out our ASK Pride Tour, available at the Museum through the ASK Brooklyn Museum app.

Posted by Rachel Lewis Donald Moffett, Lot 043017 (multiflora, radiant blue), 2017. Oil on linen, wood panel, steel. Courtesy of the artist and @marianneboeskygallery © Donald Moffett. (Photo: Christopher Burke Studio)