Brooklyn is a mish-mash of powerful places, all connected by history, the ethnic story in America, and the echoes of a time when communities cherished their monuments and architecture and built lasting monuments to the creative spirit. Americans seem to have lost their heart for monuments and cultural temples. All great civilizations build them, I think.  The Brooklyn Museum was one of those places, but there are many in Brooklyn – the Library, Bam, Eastern Parkway. This museum seemed to sometimes overwhelm its own art the the people trying to see it, and this hallway captured that for me.