brooklyn museum: ticketed exhibition?

The Brooklyn museum is not what it used to be.

Beautiful, new façade with an awe inspiriting fountain are welcomed additions but insufficient to off set the over 50 corporate sponsorship (not including KeySpan that hosts a concession type eatery on the main floor) All employees who work for these companies are admitted free of charge.

I would not highlight this largesse if it were not for my experience today of going to the museum and finding the most colorful, child-like art (Murakami) from which I am excluded until I pay an additional $10 admission fee.

What is this all about? A tease, a sample of the appealing art is prominent in the museum lobby It stimulates a desire to see more until I am stopped in my happy sojourn into the Museum’s fifth floor by the query, where is your ticket?


The last ticketed exhibit was approximately five years ago when Star Wars entered the museum. Is there something about art that entices the child, the teenager that encourages the museum to charge for their product?

I hope the administrator of this new policy of :ticketed’ exhibits rethinks this fee in light of the museum’s mission to bring appreciation of art into the lives of ordinary citizens and community denizens.