Page B11 Deaths Cap Fatal Year in Sailing B11 Weekend 'CONNECTING CULTURES' AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM The Brooklyn Museum is offering an art immersion experience, fast and condensed in a 21st-century way, in "Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn," a new long-term installation that shows the interconnections of ideas and objects in many societies and eras, Holland Cotter writes.
So this thing, called MU, is a "multi-media installation" that shows kids some kind of music and fairy tale thing that teaches them "hearing, musical, and creation".
Last year artist Eric Corriel freaked us all out with Water Will Be Here, Brooklyn (below), a video installation that showed what it might look like if the East River overflowed into parts of New York City.
His work ranges from sketches, through sculpture, to video and other installations that have been shown around the world.
It's only now, after two and a half weeks of installation, that my show is starting to reveal itself to me.
These thoughts are in the book and in the video installations that I hope to show later this year.
("Polymorphous Preverse," a kinetic sculptural installation that was shown last fall at the Freud Museum in London, will go on view on Feb. 29 at Deitch Projects in SoHo).
This museumwide show presents installations that have not been widely seen.
For a number of outdoor shows and installations that are exposed to the elements and at the mercy of the unpredictable, the environment is far more than just a backdrop.
Best is "Attack Piece," a two-channel installation from 1975 that shows Ms. Birnbaum interacting with some of her male peers.
