History, Natural History & the Arts
The 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.
[Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays Celebrating 25 Years
The 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
The 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
Between 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
The Brooklyn Museum will host its annual Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair on Sunday, November 13th, from 11 am to 4 pm. This year, the fair brings together forty Brooklyn authors and illustrators to share their latest books. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair Returns Sunday
The 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
The 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
On 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
The Brooklyn Museum has announced their schedule of Fall public programs, featuring virtual programming and socially distant in-person offerings. Programs include talks, workshops, and tours of the Museum’s exhibitions and collection. [Read more…] about Brooklyn Museum Announces Fall Public Programs
The 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