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Writing Women Back Into History 16 Jul 2013 | 08:43 pm
As I embarked on The Dinner Party Wikipedia project, my first step was to conduct a thorough assessment of the presence of these 1,038 women on Wikipedia. I found that while most of the women included...
Welcome Saul at the Brooklyn Museum 10 Jul 2013 | 08:42 pm
I am just delighted to announce the wonderful news that this fall, Brooklyn’s acclaimed Michelin star restaurant, Saul, will move from its current location in Boerum Hill to a new and larger space her...
Ending the ongoing cycle of omission 9 Jul 2013 | 10:51 pm
The conversation about sexism on Wikipedia is longstanding. In 2011, The New York Times Room for Debate took up the question of why there are so many more men than women contributing to a “free encycl...
“Africanizing” Wikipedia 2 Jul 2013 | 07:50 pm
As I’ve been leading the current Wikipedia initiative at the Brooklyn Museum, I have recently started working with our curator of African Art, Kevin Dumouchelle, to write and edit articles that relate...
A Conversation With Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier 26 Jun 2013 | 11:39 pm
One of the best parts of working in contemporary art is that we often work closely with artists, and are able to build relationships over the course of the many months (and even years!) it takes to br...
Collaborating with WikiAfrica 25 Jun 2013 | 08:30 pm
In September 2012, a representative from WikiAfrica approached us about working with them to provide Africa-related content to the Wikimedia Foundation’s websites. As the WikiAfrica profile states, “A...
Adding Our Voice to the Wikipedia Chorus 20 Jun 2013 | 08:51 pm
Our online collections have a relatively small number of visitors compared to the whopping 470 million unique visitors to Wikipedia each month. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people collectively ...
Moving Toward a Conversation 11 Jun 2013 | 08:48 pm
If you’ve ever heard me speak at conferences you know that one of our most successful technology projects is also one of our simplest—the comment kiosk. First run off of mini PCs with touch screens an...
The Reinstallation of the Asian and Arts of the Islamic World Galleries 6 Jun 2013 | 10:57 pm
If you’ve visited the second floor of the Museum recently, you may have noticed that it looks considerably more bare than normal. Big changes are in the works for the galleries of art from Asia and th...
George Grosz, Otto Dix and World War I 5 Jun 2013 | 07:57 pm
In my last post, I highlighted several of the many prints in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection that, like those now on view in the Käthe Kollwitz exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. ...
