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Brooklyn Museum Planning Permanent Galleries for Arts of Africa Collection

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Image courtesy of Peterson Rich OfficeThe Brooklyn Museum is launching a major new project to renovate and design permanent galleries for its historic African art collection, one of the largest and most renowned in the United States.

The revamped 6,400-square-foot galleries, located on the Museum’s third floor, adjacent to the iconic Beaux-Arts Court, is expected to feature an inaugural installation of over three hundred works from antiquity to the present. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum Planning Permanent Galleries for Arts of Africa Collection

An Experimental Museum: Dreier & Duchamp in Manhattan

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Anne Goldthwaite's "Portrait of Katherine S. Dreier," 1915/6 (Yale University Art Gallery)Despite actively participating in art history, female artists tended to act in the shadow of their male contemporaries.

For well into the twentieth century, they were excluded from art schools, galleries and museums. Therefore, few platforms for the exhibition of their work were available. [Read more…] about An Experimental Museum: Dreier & Duchamp in Manhattan

Brooklyn Museum To Present ‘Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea’

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Illustration from Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth, courtesy Oliver JeffersThis fall, the Brooklyn Museum will open “Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea” in the Museum’s Education Center.

Transporting visitors into the whimsical world of Jeffers’s bestselling 2017 children’s book, Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (Philomel Books), the exhibition features an underwater world that begins, when the show first opens, as sparsely populated. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum To Present ‘Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea’

Exhibit Highlights Photographer Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978)

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Illustration: "Consuelo Kanaga" by Kenneth Spencer, 1933, gelatin silver print (Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga).The Brooklyn Museum will present “Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit,” a new exhibit opening March 14, 2025. The canon-expanding exhibition charts the major yet overlooked artist’s radical photographic vision across six decades.

The retrospective exhibition presents the work of Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1976), a critical yet overlooked figure in the history of modern photography. Co-organized with and first exhibited at the Fundación MAPFRE in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, followed by a presentation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the survey will return to the Brooklyn Museum, which houses the world’s most extensive Kanaga collection. [Read more…] about Exhibit Highlights Photographer Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978)

Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 At The Brooklyn Museum

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presentation of Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 (MPL Communications Ltd. Photograph by Theo Wargo)As The Beatles captured the hearts of millions, Paul McCartney captured it all on his Pentax film camera. “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm” takes visitors inside the 1963–64 frenzy of Beatlemania, as the band’s first U.S. tour skyrocketed them to global fame. [Read more…] about Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64 At The Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum 200th Anniversary Celebration

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Brooklyn Museum (provided)This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Brooklyn Museum — one of the oldest museums in the United States. Starting in fall 2024, the Museum will celebrate its legacy.

Tracing its origins to 1824, when it was incorporated as Brooklyn‘s first free circulating library, the Museum’s mission is building community, knowledge, and opportunity through art and culture. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum 200th Anniversary Celebration

Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair Set for November 12th

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Brooklyn Museum Childrens Book FairThe Brooklyn Museum’s annual Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair will be held on Sunday, November 12, from 11 am to 3:30 pm. This year is the largest in the fair’s history, bringing together 41 Brooklyn authors and illustrators to share their latest books. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair Set for November 12th

Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays Celebrating 25 Years

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first saturdaysThe Brooklyn Museum will host a program on Saturday, February 4th with the theme “Legacy,” recognizing the integral role of Black artistic production in shaping Brooklyn’s globalized culture, and kicking off the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of First Saturdays, the Museum’s flagship community-centered series.

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After Roe: Brooklyn Exhibit Examines Reproductive Injustice

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Mary Enoch Elizabeth BaxterThe Brooklyn Museum will present “Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter: ‘Ain’t I a Woman,’ ” an exhibit marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Landmark Roe v. Wade Decision, set to run from January 20th to August 13th.

On the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) — and in the year after its overturning — Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter: “Ain’t I a Woman” examines the long history of reproductive injustice in the United States from an activist point of view. [Read more…] about After Roe: Brooklyn Exhibit Examines Reproductive Injustice

Brooklyn Museum Announces 2023 Exhibition Schedule

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Still from Ain’t I a WomanThe Brooklyn Museum has announced their 2023 exhibition schedule, including a group show of contemporary artists reflecting on the complex and continuing legacy of the Great Migration; a landmark exhibition celebrating the creativity, ingenuity, and global impact of contemporary African fashions; a multidecade survey of visually captivating, experimental work by María Magdalena Campos-Pons; and the first major exhibition of zines by artists working in North America, bringing attention to this unexamined but vibrant aesthetic practice. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum Announces 2023 Exhibition Schedule

Artists Reflect On the Impact of Great Migration in New Exhibit

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A Movement in Every DirectionBetween 1915 and 1970, in the wake of racial terror during the post-Reconstruction period, millions of Black Americans fled from their homes to other areas within the South and to other parts of the country. This movement of people caused a radical shift in the demographic, economic, and sociopolitical makeup of the United States.

For instance, New York City — and particularly Manhattan — became home to hundreds of thousands of Black Americans during this time, catalyzing the start of the artistic and cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. [Read more…] about Artists Reflect On the Impact of Great Migration in New Exhibit

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

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painting by Nellie Mae RoweThe Brooklyn Museum has announced “Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,” an exhibit exploring themes of girlhood, play, and spirituality, contextualizing Rowe’s practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation for a Black woman artist in the Jim Crow–era South, on view from from September 2nd, 2002, to January 1st, 2023. [Read more…] about Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Brooklyn Museum Announces Nearly 500 Recent Acquisitions and Gifts

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The Commons by Paul Ramírez JonasThe Brooklyn Museum has announced nearly five hundred new acquisitions that span from the sixth century to today and include Korean objects, Italian Renaissance portraiture, and contemporary works by John Edmonds, Jeffrey Gibson, KAWS, Rick Lowe, Amy Sillman, and Kara Walker, as well as forty significant, rare objects and masterworks that expand the Arts of Korea collection. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum Announces Nearly 500 Recent Acquisitions and Gifts

Arthur Szyk: The Artist As Soldier

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Model for Trylon and PerisphereOn April 30th, 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt opened New York’s World’s Fair with an address in which he praised the commercial festival as a “symbol of peace.” An idea dreamed up at the height of the depression, the theme of the Fair was “The World of Tomorrow.” Its opening slogan was an inspiring “Dawn of New Day.” [Read more…] about Arthur Szyk: The Artist As Soldier

Brooklyn Museum Reopening September 12th

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Visitors in Jeffrey Gibson When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks courtesy Brooklyn MuseumThe Brooklyn Museum is set to reopen to the public on September 12th.

The Museum’s first and fifth floor galleries will be open Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 am to 6 pm, with new extended hours on Fridays and Saturdays, to 8 pm.

A community day will be held September 9, with Member preview days following on September 10th and 11th. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum Reopening September 12th

Geographies of Gender at Brooklyn Museum

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Natasha Jean Jacobs by Grace PendletonThe Brooklyn Museum is set to celebrate their exhibit Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection during Women’s History Month on March 7th, as part of their First Saturday programs.

Throughout the evening, women and nonbinary artists from across Brooklyn explore how gender maps onto our bodies, our histories, and our political movements. Highlights include an artist talk with Naima Green, a Night Market, and music from Sammus. [Read more…] about Geographies of Gender at Brooklyn Museum

African Arts–Global Conversations Opening in Brooklyn

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Kuba artist maskThe Brooklyn Museum has announced African Art–Global Conversations, a new exhibit set to be on view from February 14th through November 15th, 2020.

The exhibition presents diverse African works throughout the Museum’s vast collections, putting African arts in its rightful place within the global art historical canon. [Read more…] about African Arts–Global Conversations Opening in Brooklyn

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