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Celebrating monumental mistakes at the Museum of Failure

CBS News 28 May 2023
From Ford's Edsel to bottled water with flavoring for pets, notorious corporate and marketing missteps are featured in a traveling exhibition, "The Museum of Failure," now on display in Brooklyn ... .
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Museum-worthy failures

CBS News 28 May 2023
... "The Museum of Failure," now on display in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Protect and disservice: Most police forces don't reflect their communities, data shows.

News & Record 26 May 2023
A memorial to George Floyd in front of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., on June 3, 2020 ... A protester holds a sign that reads "BLACK LIVES MATTER" during a Juneteenth rally outside the Brooklyn Museum, Friday, June 19, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
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George Floyd murder anniversary: Reckoning with police violence in limbo 3 years after killing

Elko Daily Free Press 25 May 2023
A giant "BLACK LIVES MATTER" sign is painted in orange on Fulton Street, Monday, June 15, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York ... A protester holds a sign that reads "BLACK LIVES MATTER" during a Juneteenth rally outside the Brooklyn Museum, Friday, June 19, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
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Shellyne Rodriguez, NYC professor who held machete to Post reporter’s neck, organized ‘f–k cops’ march

New York Post 25 May 2023
Shellyne Rodriguez, 45, is also a member of Decolonize This Place and played a leading role when the anarchist group targeted the Whitney Museum ... Kanders, an art collector and philanthropist who had been on the museum’s board since 2006, resigned in July 2019 ... Rodriguez also led a protest in 2018, occupying part of the Brooklyn Museum.
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‘The best show we’ve ever put together’: BWAC welcomes spring with four new exhibitions

AM New York 22 May 2023
Judged by Talia Shiroma of the Brooklyn Museum and curated by Sandra Forrest, “Beyond Mud” is, as the name suggests, composed entirely of ceramic goods — functional items like vases and flatware, as well as more interpretive sculptures and decor.
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3 years after George Floyd's death, are local police as diverse as their communities?

The North Platte Telegraph 22 May 2023
A memorial to George Floyd in front of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., on June 3, 2020 ... A protester holds a sign that reads "BLACK LIVES MATTER" during a Juneteenth rally outside the Brooklyn Museum, Friday, June 19, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
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Learn to read tea leaves at the Cleveland’s Buckland Museum

Cleveland 19 May 2023
Steep yourself in this ancient fortune-telling method aka “tasseology” this summer at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft & Magick in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood. In June, the full collection of Hamilton, Ontario’s Tasseomancy Museum will be on display in Buckland’s back gallery ... The Buckland Museum is at 2155 Broadview Rd., Cleveland.
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Pup Crawl in Alton set Saturday

The Telegraph - Alton 19 May 2023
The Alton Dog Park will host the annual Pup Crawl from noon-8 p.m., Saturday, May 20.For the Telegraph. ALTON – The Alton Dog Park will host the annual Pup Crawl from noon-8 p.m., Saturday, May 20 ... Here's what else is happening in the area ... • East Alton History Museum Open ... • Brooklyn Charmers ... 21 ... • East Alton History Museum Open ... • Brooklyn Charmers ... .
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‘I owe you one’: Hannah Gadsby feels chipper in Something Special

Sydney Morning Herald 18 May 2023
Juggling a new memoir, curating an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and making a genderqueer comedy special, the comic thinks it’s time for a feelgood show ....
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That Gen Z midterm boost for Democrats might be real

Politico 18 May 2023
Elections That Gen Z midterm boost for Democrats might be real. A new analysis from the Democratic data firm Catalist helps explain how Democrats staved off disaster in 2022. A voter moves to cast her ballot at an electronic counting machine at a polling site in the Brooklyn Museum, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 ... John Minchillo/AP Photo. By Steven Shepard ... .
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Brooklyn Charmers come to Edwardsville Friday

The Telegraph - Alton 17 May 2023
The Brooklyn Charmers, a Steely Dan tribute band, will perform at The Wildey Theatre, 252 N ... EDWARDSVILLE – The Brooklyn Charmers, a Steely Dan tribute band, will perform at The Wildey Theatre, 252 N ... Brooklyn Charmers is a Steely Dan tribute band comprised of some of Chicago's top players ... • East Alton History Museum Open ... • Brooklyn Charmers.
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This 1960s trailblazer of erotic pop art died just as she was finding fame

The Times & Democrat 17 May 2023
“If you asked almost anybody to name a woman pop artist, you would probably get a blank stare,” said Catherine Morris, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, which hosted the touring show “Seductive Subversion ... One of Morris’ favorite works, shown at the Brooklyn Museum, embodies this spirit.
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A US company is trying to trademark the shape of its lettuce – but this ...

The Guardian 17 May 2023
... we live in a world where absolutely anything can be monetised H annah Gadsby , a feted, award-winning comedian, has curated an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, about Pablo Picasso’s complicated legacy, called It’s Pablo-matic .
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Don’t Touch Anything: Iconic Mugler Muse Connie Girl Catches the Final Days of the Designer’s Dazzling Brooklyn Museum Retrospective (artnet AG)

Public Technologies 17 May 2023
Iconic Mugler Muse Connie Girl Catches the Final Days of the Designer's Dazzling Brooklyn Museum Retrospective ... Connie Fleming stands outside of the Brooklyn Museum on May 3, 2023 ... It was a packed house at the Brooklyn Museum for the final days of "Thierry Mugler ... Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum ... Courtesy of Brooklyn Museum.

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