Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn Museum’
By Emily Waldorf If you happen to be in London for the Frieze Art Fair, you should schedule a visit to The National Portrait Gallery’s concurrent exhibition: Annie Leibovitz: A Photographers Life 1990-2005. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition features over 150 of Leibovitz’ photographs, including her well-known images of celebrities, politicians, and the […]
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Tags: A Photographer's Life, American Vogue, Annie Leibovitz, British Vogue, Brooklyn Museum, David Bailey, Demi Moore, Frieze Art Fair, London, Portrait Café, Susan Sontag, The National Portrait Gallery
Fakes at Brooklyn Museum
05Jul08
The Art Newspaper reported that one third of the Coptic sculpture collection at the Brooklyn Museum is comprised of modern reproductions of late Egyptian sculpture. An upcoming exhibition in February 2009, “Coptic Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum,” will shed light on the forgeries. The fakes were acquired by the museum in the 1960’s and 1970’s […]
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Tags: antiques, Brooklyn Museum, collecting, Coptic sculpture, fakes