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Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions Inaugurates New
Space at Brooklyn
Museum
To inaugurate new first-floor gallery space, the Brooklyn
Museum will present the special exhibition Thinking Big: Recent Design
Acquisitions from March 4 through May 29, 2011. The installation
of forty-five twentieth- and twenty-first-century objects from the Museum's
permanent collection of decorative arts that have been acquired since 2000 will
include a number of large-scale objects that will be exhibited for the first
time.
Several important themes that have guided these acquisitions will be
highlighted, including Brooklyn-designed objects; young designers; unusual
materials and innovative methods of production; designs for children; and
mid-twentieth century modernism.
The Brooklyn Museum has been actively acquiring twentieth- and
twenty-first-century objects since the 1970s. Among the works featured in the
exhibition are "Cinderella" Table by Jeroen Verhoeven, 2005;
Chest of
Drawers, Model #45, "You Can't Lay Down Your Memories" by Tejo
Remy, for
Droog, 1991; "Nirvana" Armchair by Wendell Castle, 2007;
Spacelander
Bicycle by Benjamin Bowden, 1946; and Womb Chair by Eero Saarinen,
1947-48. Objects by Charles Eames, Cindy Sherman, Konstantin Grcic, Francois
Jourdain, and Harry Allen will also be included.
Thinking Big will be the first exhibition in a gallery that has been
reclaimed from nonpublic space. The gallery is part of a renovation that is the
first phase in a program that will redesign and transform much of the Museum's
first floor beyond the Rubin Pavilion and Lobby, which opened in 2004.
The exhibition is organized by Barry R. Harwood, Curator of Decorative Arts,
Brooklyn
Museum.
*Press images related to Thinking Big are available for download in
the Museum's online Press
Room Image Gallery. Members of the press who would like access to the images
may request a username and password by responding to this e-mail with their name
and professional
affiliation.
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Image: Designer and Maker: Wendell Castle
(American, born 1932). "Nirvana"
Armchair, 2007. Place made: Scottsville, New York,
U.S.A.
Fiberglass, 62 3/8 x 33 5/8 x 33 3/4 in. (158.4 x 85.4 x 85.7 cm). Gift of the
artist, Brooklyn
Museum
200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY
11238-6052
Press
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