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Brooklyn, NY

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While visiting my father and his partner in Brooklyn, I stayed at their apartment on Flatbush Avenue. This was in 2018.

It took me some time to adjust to the subway system, but once I felt comfortable, I began visiting local parks and taking lots of pictures.

My visit coincided with the arrival of my uncle from England. We had a good visit and got to see local venues including the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

The museum had two exhibit’s running, Black Freedom and Korean Art. We also visited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

The photos were taken with a Fujifilm Finepix HS 25 EXR.

Museum of Art – Black Freedom Exhibit

Museum of Art – Korean Exhibit

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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The Art of Korea exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum (part 2)

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The Art of Korea exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.

Our pioneering collection of Korean art is one of the largest and most important Korean collections in the United States.

A selection returns to view in a new gallery three times the size of the previous space and featuring many treasures never before shown. At the center of this state-of-the-art installation are the luminescent celadon ceramics of the Goryeo dynasty.

These include a famed ewer in the shape of a lotus bud widely acknowledged to be the finest Korean ceramic in the Western hemisphere.

But the riches of the Brooklyn collection—from golden earrings of the Silla kingdom to vibrant costumes, paintings, and furnishings of the Joseon dynasty—show that the sophistication of Korean art stretches far beyond these celebrated green wares.

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/arts_of_korea