The Brooklyn Museum seeks an emerging curator of Egyptian art, focused primarily on art and material culture produced in Egypt and Nubia, as well as in the Ancient Near East and the Classical world prior to the fourth century C.E. The Assistant Curator will work closely with the Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern art to envision, interpret, and build on the significant legacy of one of the Brooklyn Museum’s oldest and most celebrated collections. The successful candidate will be an engaged curator and scholar of Egyptian art with a commitment to innovative and expansive research and thinking and to art historical narratives previously marginalized across the field. Especially welcome are candidates with an ability to conceptualize original, canon-expanding, and timely collection exhibitions that offer fresh perspectives on ancient art for twenty-first-century audiences. In addition to proposing ideas for in-house and touring exhibitions both for the department and as collaborations with other collections, the Assistant Curator will support the exhibitions’ development and implementation, strengthen the collection through research and acquisition, and cultivate patrons, working collaboratively and holistically to bring all aspects of projects together cross-institutionally. They will actively engage with collectors and patrons, professional colleagues, partner institutions, and the Brooklyn community.
Their work will incorporate and amplify the voices, narratives, and perspectives of Museum audiences to present diverse beliefs, cultures, and experiences to ensure that the Museum can achieve its goal of becoming a conduit for open sharing and learning and a place for courageous conversations.
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