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Chris Johnson (American, b. 1948) and Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976), with Kamal Sinclair (American, b. 1976) and Bayeté Ross Smith (American, b. 1976).
Still from Question Bridge: Black Males (Darran Simon, New Orleans), 2011. Multichannel video installation.
Courtesy of the artists and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Question Bridge: Black Males
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES • Brooklyn Museum • 13 January - 3 June 2012

Question Bridge: Black Males is a video installation created by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The four collaborators spent several years traveling throughout the United States, speaking with 150 Black men living in 12 American cities and towns, including New York, Chicago, Oakland, Birmingham, and New Orleans. From these interviews they created 1,500 video exchanges in which the subjects, representing a range of geographic, generational, economic, and educational strata, serve as both interviewers and interviewees. Their words were woven together to simulate a stream-of-consciousness dialogue, through which important themes and issues emerge, including family, love, interracial relationships, community, education, violence, and the past, present, and future of Black men in American society.

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HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES • Brooklyn Museum • 18 November 2011 - 12 February 2012

HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture brings together more than one hundred works in a wide range of media, including paintings, photographs, works on paper, film, and installation art. The exhibition charts the underdocumented role that sexual identity has played in the making of modern art, and highlights the contributions of gay and lesbian artists to American art. Beginning in the late nineteenth century with Thomas Eakins’ Realist paintings, HIDE/SEEK traces the often coded narrative of sexual desire in art produced throughout the early modern period and up to the present. The exhibition features pieces by canonical figures in American art—including George Bellows, Marsden Hartley, Alice Neel, and Berenice Abbott—along with works that openly assert gay and lesbian subjects in modern and contemporary art, by artists such as Jess Collins and Tee Corinne.

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Female Figure. Egypt, from Ma'mariya. Predynastic Period, Naqada IIa (circa 3500-3400 B.C.). Terracotta, painted. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
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Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES • Brooklyn Museum of Art • 20 October 2004 - 30 December 2012

Completing the final phase of the reinstallation of the Egyptian Galleries, nearly 600 objects, including some of the most important works of ancient Egyptian art in the world, are on view in four newly designed galleries on the Museum's third floor. These works, some not on view since the early 20th century, date from the Predynastic Period (circa 4400 B.C.) to the 18th-Dynasty reign of Amenhotep III (circa 1353 B.C.). Included are such treasures as an exquisite chlorite-stone head of a Middle Kingdom princess, an early stone deity from 2650 B.C., a relief from the tomb of Akhty-hotep, and a highly abstract female terracotta statuette created over 5,000 years ago. The new galleries are arranged chronologically, starting with the oldest pieces, and include thematic displays exploring such topics as the connection between art and writing and the relationship between Egyptians and other ancient peoples. Additionally, computers and video monitors provide in-depth information about the objects.

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