Brooklyn Museum presents Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913-191

BROOKLYN, NY.- Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes, 1913–1919, an exhibition of 45 objects including drawings, works on paper, documentary photographs, and stories in newsprint by the celebrated writer and early twentieth-century advocate for women’s rights Djuna Barnes (American, 1892–1982), is being presented in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art from January 20 through August 19, 2012. Among the works on view are eight illustrations Barnes composed to accompany her newspaper columns. [...]