Treasures of the Brooklyn Museum

Treasures of the Brooklyn MuseumLocated in the heart of Kings County, the Brooklyn Museum is an anchor of New York City and a world class institution. The museums 560,000 square foot building is a Beaux Arts masterpiece, housing over one and a half million works of art, from ancient Assyrian reliefs to striking period homes and Old Master paintings, as well as works by the top contemporary artists of today. This handsome little book illustrates a curated selection of these pieces,

from legends like LeBron James and Chris Paul to rising stars like Giannis Antetokounmpo and Luka Doncic

all the while searching for the best venues in which to display his latest acquisitions

often dispensing with the human form altogether

employs a range of black shades that create a unique three-dimensional effect: The multiple textures from the paint catch light and make the paintings shimmer and appear to move

while the back shows the entire print along with a caption

97 in total and all in full color

Howard Major

and work as a team

Included in the 2004 edition: Audemars Piquet

Complete with 110 full-color illustrations

and his early career as a painter is considered in the light of his later sculptural oeuvre

and opposition to the nihilism that underlay so much of modern culture