art attack - Brooklyn Paper

-00,
'03
#3&",*/(
/&84
&7&3:
8&&,%":
"5
#300,-:/1"1&3$0.



Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper BrooklynPaper.com s (718) 834–9350 s Brooklyn, NY s ©2009

.%730!0%2/&4(%9%!2s%$)4/2/&4(%9%!2

ART ATTACK

8"5&38&*3% ‘Bio-barge’ on eco-adventure

MoMA battles Brooklyn Museum — on our turf By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper

The Museum of Modern Art — with more masterpieces than an art history textbook — took a shot across the Bauhaus of the Brooklyn Museum this week, plastering a Downtown subway station with ads that will turn it into a monthlong annex of the Manhattan institution. MoMA, the famed Midtown museum built on Rockefeller petro-dollars, will hang prints from its allegedly incomparable collection, such as Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” and Warhol’s Campbell’s soup series, throughout the Atlantic Avenue–Pacific Street subway station starting on Feb. 10. The inartful display is a full-frontal assault on the Brooklyn Museum — home to an esteemed Egyptian collection, underappreciated

masterworks from the Hudson River school and free events on the first Saturday of every month — in the borough with the most sophisticated residents. Yet museum officials parried the suggestion this was a declaration of war by its younger, wealthier Manhattan cousin. “I don’t see that’s it any different than putting a full-page ad in the New York Times,” said Brooklyn Museum spokeswoman Sally Williams. “There’s room for us both.” That’s unclear. The Beaux Arts building on Eastern Parkway is swimming in the same shallow pool of visitors and donors in the middle of an economic freeze. Some of the Brooklyn Museum’s largest corporate donors — including Lehman Brothers and See SUBWAY ART ATTACK on page 11

Artists Mary Mattingly and Cory Mervis plan to sustain themselves on the WaterPod “bio-barge” (rendering at top) for five months. By Ben Muessig The Brooklyn Paper

)POFTU
 
"CF
IFBEJOH
IPNF By Mike McLaughlin

Invasion: The Museum of Modern Art has taken over the Atlantic–Pacific Station.

DiBrienza seeks second helping

The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan

The Brooklyn Paper / Allyse Pulliam

The Brooklyn Paper

Abe Lincoln will soon be back where he belongs. Roughly 113 years after a towering statue of our 16th president was unceremoniously exiled from near the Soldiers and Sailors Arch in Grand Army Plaza, the monument will be returned to its rightful place, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. With the bicentennial of the Great Emancipator’s birth just days away, a Prospect Park official revealed that the city intends to move the bronze likeness of Lincoln to a spot next to the arch, a monument for fallen Union combatants. The statue was originally installed in Grand Army Plaza in 1869 — the first statue of Lincoln erected in the Union, according to the Parks Department. Though it was the focal point of Memorial Day fesSee HONEST on page 10

1st

#00,4

+PLF
CPPL

The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings

February 23/March 1, 2008

I
0;:L@
0;
/;910EJ
?-50
#5/4->0
*;385:
-A@4;> ;2
I;910E
-@
@41
031
;C
$@-:0A5/-J
I
/-:
@-87
.A@

0;:L@ 7:;C
4;C
2A::E

-9J :
1.

45?
2-:? C588
.1
@41
;:1?
@;
01 /501
-?
@41E
11 5>0
;;7?
@;
41-> *;385:
>1-0
2>;9
45? @;91
2;>
C45/4
41
5: @1>B51C10
/;9105-:? 2>;9
$@1B1
->@5:
@; -B50
1@@1>9-: I
3>1C
A