National Gallery of Art: ‘Degas/Cassatt’ With just 70 works squeezed into four small galleries, this show about the unlikely but long-lasting friendship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas is not your typical Impressionist blockbuster. [Through 5 Oct. 2014] Familiar paintings and pastels are outnumbered here by prints and drawings. But that focus ultimately proves to
Shelley Bernstein lives with her computer. Most days she hunkers down in her spartan office at the Brooklyn Museum where, as chief technology officer, she invents ways to keep people visiting the museum and its Web site. [source: New York Times] Every night she bicycles home to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn to be
For a generation captivated by smartphones and iPads, museums can often invoke horrific memories of getting in trouble during your fifth grade field trip to the Art Institute because you laughed at the scantily-clad ancient Roman statues. Doomed to a week of no recess for scoffing in the face of art, museums became the enemy
Shelley Bernstein lives with her computer. Most days she hunkers down in her spartan office at the Brooklyn Museum where, as chief technology officer, she invents ways to keep people visiting the museum and its Web site, brooklynmuseum.org. [source: Carol Vogel, New York Times] Every night she bicycles home to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn to be