Comments on: Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection – part VII /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/ Technology blog of the Brooklyn Museum Fri, 04 Apr 2014 18:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Skye Marie /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:00:22 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-873 This article was so helpful. My teacher recently asigned an assignement that required me to research the decision making process of collecting art and artifacts. This was one of the few resources I could find that was well written enough to take notes on. It’s also nice to be able to see how much effort goes into choosing a piece of art. I never knew it took so much time and effort. With this new outlook on collections I appreciate the layouts of collections so much more.

]]> By: Laura Coyle /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 Tue, 19 May 2009 20:22:02 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-1433 Thank you for the informative and enjoyable series of posts about the acquisition of the Shiva sculpture for the Brooklyn Museum. I teach a course about curatorship for the graduate program in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and one of my students brought your blog to my attention.

I have just added these posts to the syllabus for the class about curatorship that I will teach this summer. As a vivid, first-hand account, your explanation of the acquisitions process complements beautifully the readings my students will be discussing about collection plans, policies, and procedures; collection ethics, including restitution and repatriation issues; and deaccession policies.

Your peek behind the scenes will also help my students understand better what they need to consider for one of their assignments: writing and presenting an acquisition proposal for an object for the museum of their choice. The object must be on the market, but the students’ acquisition funds are unlimited–wouldn’t that be great?

In any event, I know it takes time to make these kind of thoughtful, well written, and detailed posts, and I thought you might like to know that your efforts are appreciated.

]]> By: grace paramaspry /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-1436 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:10:35 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-1436 Shiva as Chandrashekhara
Kindly let me know the name of the New York gallery the purchase was made from .

]]> By: KERA Art&Seek Blog - Tuesday Morning Roundup /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:42:07 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-604 […] Carter Museum blog points us to a post on the Brooklyn Museum’s blog (still with me?) about how art enters that museum’s collection. Jana says the process is very similar to the way things work at Amon Carter, so if you have ever […]

]]> By: clickykbd /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-588 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:59:35 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-588 Arriving from the indicommons blog post… this bit of news was so pertinent to read today. I’m in the middle of reading “The Ventetian’s Wife” a beautiful (both visually and written) fiction about an archivist/researcher who falls into an adventure with antiquities through a painting of Shiva, on a quest to re-unite a long fragmented private collection. I’m sure you folks have read it already… just saying the coincidence in readings is marvelous!

]]> By: indicommons» Blog Archive » Carnival of the Commons /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:42:23 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-586 […] The Brooklyn Museum updates us with an new installment of Purchasing a Major Work of Art for the Collection. […]

]]> By: Francesca /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:33:25 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-579 Thanks for a great post, so enlightening – I ‘ve never even thought about the deaccessioning process before. Finding out the backstory of this objects arrival at the Museum definately makes me want to come and check it out.

]]> By: Joan Cummins /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-575 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:06:35 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-575 Thanks for your comments and question. We sometimes bring in outside conservators to help with treatment or assessment of specialized objects (most often textiles), but the Brooklyn Museum actually has a large, well equipped, and well staffed conservation lab, so it’s not usually necessary to bring someone in to look at potential new acquisitions. The only sort of outside administrative advice we would need to bring in would be from the Museum’s legal counsel, who is sometimes asked to advise on unusual tax and transfer-of-ownership situations.
When trying to assess a potential acquisition, we are most likely to seek outside advice from art historians and other connoisseurs, just to provide a second (or third, or fourth) opinion about whether the object is worth bringing into the collection. That’s something the curator tries to do fairly early in the process.

]]> By: Amy Dreher /2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:01:48 +0000 /bloggers/2009/01/06/purchasing-a-major-work-of-art-for-the-collection-part-vii/#comment-570 Thanks for sharing this process – both the accessioning and deaccessioning of works. It’s fascinating how much work goes into bringing new work to the museum. It’s also interesting to hear about how much it costs to store and display works of art.

Question: when the piece enters the museum for its second inspection, does BMA bring in outside conservator and administrators, or are they on staff?

Hope to hear more about this process here in the future!

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