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What Is a Brooklyn Artist?
A sweeping survey at the Brooklyn Museum provides a lot of answers, none of which satisfy.
Still, so much of the art world remains attached to Manhattan and its money that it feels like Brooklyn is but a satellite orbiting the gleaming cluster of galleries that stretch from Chelsea to the Lower East Side. This is Ruby Chishti’s In the City of Children, a large sculpture made of recycled clothes, thread, wood, wire mesh, and steel, charged with lost dreams and a forceful presence. And then there is Loren Munk’s wildly colored painting of a map with text that recounts the galleries of Soho — perhaps an inadvertent nod at the gravitational pull of the Manhattan art scene and its wealthy patrons.
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