A Photo Diary

I know I promised some behind the scenes Silverdocs photos - so here you go. Enjoy and be sure to takepart and learn about how the Brooklyn Museum is using the power of digital cameras to curate an exciting new exhibit:

Me pretending to be the Silverdocs logo = laser eyes!

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Have you ever been to an art museum and wondered who decided that the stuff in the museum was actually art? Or maybe you’ve seen photos at a gallery and thought to yourself “I could have done that!”

Well if you’ve had those thoughts or similar ones, the Brooklyn Museum has an exhibit for you! Their latest experiment is called Click! and it was designed to be self curated and to include not only what the elite in the art world think, but what folks of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds think:

Click! is a photography exhibition that invites Brooklyn Museum’s visitors, the online community, and the general public to participate in the exhibition process. Taking its inspiration from the critically acclaimed book The Wisdom of Crowds, in which New Yorker business and financial columnist James Surowiecki asserts that a diverse crowd is often wiser at making decisions than expert individuals, Click! explores whether Surowiecki’s premise can be applied to the visual arts”is a diverse crowd just as “wise” at evaluating art as the trained experts? [Brooklyn Museum]

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January 26th is the Global Day of Action organized by the World Social Forum. You can find out how your city is celebrating the Global Day of Action here. But this sounds like a great thing to know about for everyone in the world, and a great thing to do for people in New York. This Saturday, the Brooklyn Museum will host a screening and discussion of the documentary Work and Respect made by the Third World Newsreel about the lives of domestic workers– Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers who work in New York.

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