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The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. Our mission is to create inspiring encounters with art that expand the ways we see ourselves, the world and its possibilities.

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: Don't miss Friday Exhibition Tours at ICP - International Center of Photography! Every Friday at 2 PM, ICP staff guide...
03/16/2023

: Don't miss Friday Exhibition Tours at ICP - International Center of Photography! Every Friday at 2 PM, ICP staff guide visitors through current exhibitions, providing you with new insights and ways of looking at what's on the museum walls. Find all tours: https://bit.ly/3LrDtKT

Sculptures you can snuggle ☁️New to the , these soft sculptures and toys from Farmmm are designed to create positive emo...
03/15/2023

Sculptures you can snuggle ☁️

New to the , these soft sculptures and toys from Farmmm are designed to create positive emotional experiences and inspire inclusive play. All objects are designed and handmade in Brooklyn by Sasha Topolnytska—a multidisciplinary creative specializing in spatial and object design.

Discover all their peculiar, colorful forms: http://bit.ly/bkmshop

Akea Brionne is originally from New Orleans, currently based in Detroit. In Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the...
03/13/2023

Akea Brionne is originally from New Orleans, currently based in Detroit.

In Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, she pays homage to four important women in her family—her great-grandmother and her three great-aunts, the Phelps sisters. “School Children,” shown here, as part of a series of Jacquard tapestries on view in the exhibition that reproduce images from the artist’s family archive with hand-sewn rhinestone embellishments.

📷 Akea Brionne (born New Orleans, Louisiana, 1996; based in Detroit, Michigan). School Children, from the series An Ode to (You)’all, 2022. Jacquard tapestry, Poly-Fil, rhinestones, 40 × 27 in. (101.6 × 68.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist → Akea Brionne Brown

What title would you give this photograph? For his 1980 book of S-M-themed photographs titled “Submission,” Jimmy DeSana...
03/12/2023

What title would you give this photograph?

For his 1980 book of S-M-themed photographs titled “Submission,” Jimmy DeSana named the images after the objects depicted in them. Take this performative picture, Coffee Table, for example.

In the book comprised of 29 black-and-white photographs, DeSana created theatrical and often comic photographs that relate to his own personal experiences of s*x, and also affectionately parody themes of suburbia and consumer affluence.

Join us on March 23 for Art History Happy Hour dedicated to Jimmy DeSana. We'll discuss the artist's subversive aesthetic and participation in avant-garde movements, ranging from q***r mail art networks to punk music and cinema with Drew Sawyer, Laurie Simmons, and Carlos Alejandro Motta.

🎟 http://bit.ly/3LaSb8M

📷 Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990). Coffee Table, 1977–78. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (24.1 × 16.5 cm). Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust and P·P·O·W Gallery, New York. © Estate of Jimmy DeSana. (Photo: Allen Phillips)

Good morning, Brooklyn. ⏰Today marks the time to spring forward. In honor of adjusting any analog clocks around your hom...
03/12/2023

Good morning, Brooklyn. ⏰

Today marks the time to spring forward. In honor of adjusting any analog clocks around your home, we’re taking this opportunity to travel back in time to showcase this 1933 Herman Miller clock.

This small, electric clock made of a round wooden casing is part of our Decorative Arts collection and is on view in the Luce Visible Storage and Study Center on the 5th floor.

📷 Gilbert Rohde (American, 1894-1944). Clock, Model 6332, ca. 1933. Wood, metal, glass. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1999.141.2. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Make the journey to share your journey. 🗣️ 🗺We invite you to share your personal and familial stories of migration in th...
03/11/2023

Make the journey to share your journey. 🗣️ 🗺

We invite you to share your personal and familial stories of migration in the oral history pod as part of Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.

Learn more about how to document your story as well as the work from 12 contemporary artists on view in this newly opened exhibition: https://bit.ly/GreatMigrationBkM

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03/10/2023
Teen Night: A New Tide, A Clear View

Enjoy an eye opening experience and a new view on climate justice at our second Teen Night of the Year, A New Tide, A Clear View, on March 17th from 5-7:30 pm.

Inspired by DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash by Duke Riley and Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas exhibition, spend the night learning about environment justice through various art-making activities, a scavenger hunt, and a panel discussion. There will be good food, good vibes, and performances from Rocc Sturdy and their band, Urban Word poets and Spokenbyt where you can feel enlightened by poetry. Ending our night will be DJ Autumn to party for the remainder of the teen night.

Free, open to all young people ages 14+, RSVP here: http://bit.ly/3ZCnvBN

Joy overload! In the Women Owned Collection in our shop, you can expect to find a host of brands to draw out your creati...
03/09/2023

Joy overload! In the Women Owned Collection in our shop, you can expect to find a host of brands to draw out your creativity, add warmth to your space, or support your self-expression, including:

🖍️ OMY
🧩 Le Puzz
🎨 Yui Brooklyn

Support these women-owned brands and more in-person or online: http://bit.ly/shopbkm

: BRIC's spring 2023 Project Room exhibition "Buzz Slutzky: For Example" presents the artist’s ongoing investigation int...
03/08/2023

: BRIC's spring 2023 Project Room exhibition "Buzz Slutzky: For Example" presents the artist’s ongoing investigation into the relationship between mark- and meaning-making. Through drawing, painting, and film, Slutzky explores the aesthetics of authority, instruction, and knowledge production.

The exhibition is on view at BRIC House until April 30, 2023. Learn more here: bit.ly/3E4ufQq

Happy !These recent acquisitions to our American Art Collection celebrate two women artists whose intrepid travels in Eu...
03/08/2023

Happy !

These recent acquisitions to our American Art Collection celebrate two women artists whose intrepid travels in Europe informed much of their oeuvres.

Emily Sargent’s and Loïs Mailou Jones’s watercolors each depict scenes in Venice, Italy, over 50 years apart. Sargent, a prolific watercolorist, represents the quiet religious interior of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, leaving an area of unpainted paper that reveals her artistic process. Jones, who was also an art professor at Howard University, employs loose brushstrokes and demonstrates an interest in light effects that are characteristic of the Impressionist style she learned in Paris.

Today we recognize the accomplishments of both women and their work abroad. We’re proud to have these watercolors as part of our permanent collection.

🎨 Loïs Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998). The Bridge, 1938. Watercolor and graphite on paper. American Art. Robert A. Levinson Fund, purchased in honor of Saundra Williams-Cornwell and W. Don Cornwell for their two decades of stalwart generosity and dedication to the Brooklyn Museum, 2022.8. → Emily Sargent (American, 1857 - 1936). Interior of the Frari, 1885. Pencil and watercolor. American Art. Anonymous gift, 2022.57.1.

03/06/2023
A Night of Mugler Presented by Chiquitita

Mark your calendars for March 25! 📅🌟

We’re bringing back a second annual evening of drag, music, and burlesque, hosted by drag artist Chiquitita.

Inspired by our special exhibition Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, you won’t want to miss music by Dee Diggs, and Tito Vida; immersive photo booths by Victor G. Jeffreys II, and Nico Kiray; and live performances by artists from Brooklyn and beyond, including Jasmine Rice LaBeija, Serena Tea, Milan Garçon, Queen Kirlia, and Chiquitita herself.

Looks encouraged, but not required!

🎟 http://bit.ly/3mtiJrF

At nearly seven feet tall, this “poem-picture” greets you as you turn the corner to Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of m...
03/06/2023

At nearly seven feet tall, this “poem-picture” greets you as you turn the corner to Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon.

This work portrays a friend of Oscar yi Hou’s, a q***r Filipino American, whose recent citizenship is implied through the shadow the subject casts against the backdrop of the American flag. The text on the red stripes appropriates the welcome letter that the subject received from the U.S. president upon naturalization. By replacing the word “America” with “Empire,” the painting alludes to the history of American imperialism and ‘nation-building’ in transpacific regions, which has impacted the sitter’s country of birth.

See this work as part of Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon on the fourth floor.

🎨 Oscar yi Hou (born Liverpool, UK, 1998). Old Gloried Hole, aka: Ends of Empire, 2022. Oil, gouache on canvas, 83 × 44 in. (210.8 × 111.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist and James Fuentes, New York. © Oscar yi Hou. (Photo: Jason Mandella, courtesy of James Fuentes LLC) → Installation view, Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon, October 14, 2022 - September 17, 2023. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

Throughout the 1970s, Jimmy DeSana created campy portraits of his extended circle of friends and collaborators in New Yo...
03/05/2023

Throughout the 1970s, Jimmy DeSana created campy portraits of his extended circle of friends and collaborators in New York, which included musicians, filmmakers, writers, artists, critics, and curators.

Performance artist and fixture of New York City’s downtown scene Stephen Varble, shown here, was one of DeSana’s repeat subjects. DeSana captured many of the performances staged by Varble whose guerilla practices served as commentary on gender identity, class, and capitalism. These performance-based and ephemeral events would continue to inform DeSana’s work in photography throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

📷 Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990). Stephen Varble, 1975. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust and P·P·O·W Gallery, New York. © Estate of Jimmy DeSana. (Photo: Allen Phillips)

Wishing you all a restful weekend!If you’re heading to  later, here are a few tips and tricks:👉 First Saturday is free, ...
03/04/2023

Wishing you all a restful weekend!

If you’re heading to later, here are a few tips and tricks:

👉 First Saturday is free, but you must RSVP in advance
👉 Tickets to Thierry Mugler: Couturissime must be purchased separately
👉 Coat check is available on a first-come, first-served basis
👉 Masks are optional in the Museum, but required in the Auditorium

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Now Open… A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.📍New York City—and particularly Manhattan—becam...
03/03/2023

Now Open… A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.📍

New York City—and particularly Manhattan—became home to hundreds of thousands of Black Americans, who left their homes in the South as a result of racial terror during the post-Reconstruction period between 1915 and 1970.

This remarkable movement of people caused a radical shift in the demographic, economic, and sociopolitical makeup of the United States. In New York City, for example, this influx of new residents catalyzed the start of the artistic and cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. The extension of the A train line in the 1930s later prompted a mass local migration between Manhattan and Brooklyn, establishing the latter borough as a key site of the Great Migration.

In , you’ll find a departure from traditional accounts of the Great Migration, which are often understood through a lens of trauma. Here, the movement is reconceptualized through stories of self-possession, self-determination, as well as critique. While honoring the layered hardships, the exhibition further expands this narrative by introducing those individuals, families, and communities who stayed in the region during this time and created their own legacies.

Discover more and plan your visit through June 25: https://bit.ly/GreatMigrationBkM

📷 Installation view, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. Brooklyn Museum, March 3–June 25, 2023. (Photo: Danny Perez)

Meanwhile in the Conservation Lab at the Brooklyn Museum… 🌼 🔬The Brooklyn Museum paintings conservators welcomed scienti...
03/02/2023

Meanwhile in the Conservation Lab at the Brooklyn Museum… 🌼 🔬

The Brooklyn Museum paintings conservators welcomed scientists from the Met’s the Network Initiative for Conservation Science (NICS) to assist with a long-term treatment of a work in the Brooklyn Museum's collection by Mary Moser, a celebrated 18th century artist and one of the only two female founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Over the course of two and a ​half days, we analyzed the pigments used by Moser in this painting using a portable X-ray fluorescence scanning system, which allows us to visualize the distribution of chemical elements on an artwork surface without the need to remove a sample. Here you can see the set-up for this scanning process as well as the distribution of arsenic in a yellow flower from the still life painting, which likely indicates the use of the arsenic-based pigment orpiment.

🖼️ Mary Moser (English, 1744-1819). Vase of Flowers, ca. 1780. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Silberberg, 64.92.5 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum). → Courtesy of Ellen Nigro → Elemental map courtesy of NICS

03/01/2023
What's Happening in March at the Brooklyn Museum

ICYMI: Our Libraries & Archives are reopening to the public today (by appointment only) after a three-year-hiatus due to the pandemic! And A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration open this Friday. So, yeah, you could say we’re excited about everything March will bring!

Save your spot at any of this month’s exciting events or plan your visit: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI

The month of love comes to a close ever-so-sweetly with ! 🍓Throughout his career Pierre-Auguste Renoir made many still-l...
02/27/2023

The month of love comes to a close ever-so-sweetly with ! 🍓

Throughout his career Pierre-Auguste Renoir made many still-lifes like this one of luscious red strawberries contrasted with a white bowl and tablecloth. The same feathery brushstrokes and rosy hues he used for fruit or flowers also feature in his many depictions of n**e women. In fact, he once said that his studies of roses were “research into flesh tones for a n**e.”

You can see these naked strawberries in Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art on the fifth floor.

🎨 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919). Still Life with Strawberries, 1914. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Alexander M. Bing, 60.29 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

It’s not every week that the muse graces the Museum. Thank you to Iman and all of our visitors for always showcasing why...
02/25/2023

It’s not every week that the muse graces the Museum.

Thank you to Iman and all of our visitors for always showcasing why Brooklyn is the best.

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Quintessential 1990s pop aesthetics are on full display in the “Too Funky” music video.Released in 1992, the music video...
02/24/2023

Quintessential 1990s pop aesthetics are on full display in the “Too Funky” music video.

Released in 1992, the music video was directed by Thierry Mugler alongside George Michael, who at the time, had filed a lawsuit against his record label and was refusing to appear in his music videos. Instead, he assembled an extraordinary cast of supermodels, actresses, and performers to lip-sync his songs. In the video, Mugler contrasted the glamour of a fashion show runway with the chaos behind the scenes.

📷 Emil Larsson (born Sweden). Prêt-à-porter spring/summer 1992. Les Cow-boys collection, Hand-painted Plexiglas “motorcycle fairing” bustier (Jean-Jacques Urcun), quilted heart on the back. Metal spike-heeled, hand-painted leather ankle boots. © Emil Larsson → Emil Larsson (born Sweden). Prêt-à-porter Spring/Summer 1991 collection (“Superstar Diana Ross”). Metal bra, shorts, articulated armpieces, and helmet, made in collaboration with Jean-Pierre Delcros. © Emil Larsson → Emil Larsson (born Sweden). Prêt-à-porter spring/summer 1992. Les Cow-boys collection, Rubber-lace slit sheath with pagoda sleeves. © Emil Larsson

Discover and support Black-owned brands in our Black History Month collection, including:🍷 Lichen Wine Rack🍴 Bryant Terr...
02/23/2023

Discover and support Black-owned brands in our Black History Month collection, including:

🍷 Lichen Wine Rack
🍴 Bryant Terry’s Black Food Pantry
🕯️ Areaware’s Happiness Pillar Candle
🧩 Chronicle Books’ Faith Ringgold puzzle

Shop these items (and more) in-person or online: https://bit.ly/3B83TdA

Save the last dance for us! 💃Help us close out this season of Salsa Party with a final dance-filled evening on March 9. ...
02/22/2023

Save the last dance for us! 💃

Help us close out this season of Salsa Party with a final dance-filled evening on March 9.

Salsa Party is free, but RSVPs are required. Save your spot: https://bit.ly/3ASlipu

📷 Henry Danner for Souls in Focus

Get to know Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter. Philadelphia-based artist and prison abolitionist, Baxter draws on autobiograph...
02/22/2023

Get to know Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter.

Philadelphia-based artist and prison abolitionist, Baxter draws on autobiography and history to challenge systemic structures of oppression, particularly the ways in which the carceral system harms Black women and girls. Baxter is a cofounder of the Dignity Act Now Collective, an advocacy and legal reform group of Black activists and artists directly impacted by incarceration.

In her exhibition, Ain’t I a Woman, Baxter boldly shares experiences from a turbulent youth in Philadelphia to her pregnancy, arrest, incarceration, and the birth of her son, culminating in her growth as an advocate and prison abolitionist. Spanning documentary, rap music, and photography Baxter underscores the need for empathy and liberation on the way to bodily autonomy for all.

📷 Installation view, Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter: Ain't I a Woman, on view January 20, 2023 - August 13, 2023. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez) → Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Kolin Mendez Photography)

Congratulations are in order! 👏Help us celebrate the fourth annual UOVO Prize winner, Suneil Sanzgiri. He is an artist, ...
02/21/2023

Congratulations are in order! 👏

Help us celebrate the fourth annual UOVO Prize winner, Suneil Sanzgiri. He is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker. Spanning experimental video and film, animations, essays, and installations, Sanzgiri's work contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture, and diaspora in relation to structural violence and anticolonial struggles across the Global South.

We look forward to sharing more about Sanzgiri’s first solo exhibition, which will debut later this year.

📷 Suneil Sanzgiri, 2022. (Photo: Shala Miller, courtesy of the artist)

02/20/2023

We’ve got a lot to celebrate during the next First Saturday on March 4!

In the spirit of Women’s History Month and two recently opened exhibitions—A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration and Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter: “Ain’t I a Woman”— we’re honoring the pivotal role of women and nonbinary people in social, political, and aesthetic movements for liberation.

🔗 https://bit.ly/bkmfs0323


This event is free, but advance registration is required. Admission is subject to our capacity at the time of your arrival.

Bank of America is a proud sponsor of First Saturdays 25th Anniversary Season. Additional support provided by: Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

“‘Abstract photography’ not only turns its back on [the] incessant desire to know and see everything—it seeks to undermi...
02/19/2023

“‘Abstract photography’ not only turns its back on [the] incessant desire to know and see everything—it seeks to undermine and invert those very intentions,” Jerry Saltz wrote for the catalog that accompanied Jimmy DeSana’s first major curatorial effort at the Emerson in 1989.

The show, which included the work of 26 artists (including: Vikky Alexander, Ellen Brooks, Charlesworth, Morrisroe, Sherman, and Simmons), spoke to how artists were attempting in this era to move beyond the instrumentalization of representation during a period of intense political divisiveness, and to expand what photography could be as art.

📷 Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990). Eyelashes, 1986. Silver dye bleach print, 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.1 × 19.1 cm). Courtesy of the Jimmy DeSana Trust and P·P·O·W Gallery, New York. © Estate of Jimmy DeSana. (Photo: Allen Phillips)

Do you have a favorite decade of Mugler designs? 70s, 80s, 90s? We are loving your photos from Thierry Mugler: Couturiss...
02/18/2023

Do you have a favorite decade of Mugler designs? 70s, 80s, 90s?

We are loving your photos from Thierry Mugler: Couturissime. Continue sharing your visit by using .

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Jerry Hall walked in Thierry Mugler’s very first runway show in 1978, became the face of his fragrance Angel in 1995, an...
02/16/2023

Jerry Hall walked in Thierry Mugler’s very first runway show in 1978, became the face of his fragrance Angel in 1995, and was one of the fashion visionary’s muses photographed in far-off, hard-to-reach places around the world.

“Thierry loved women,” Hall said. “Only love could grasp and hold all those glamorous iconic Hollywood images and fold them into fabric.”

Knowing Mugler’s love for women, it’s no surprise that he invented the “glamazon,” an unconventional, powerful, and s*xy modern metropolitan woman. Beyond erotic maximization, self-awareness was asserted through body consciousness. In the couturier’s mind, “Elegance is guts, it’s nerve.”

📷 Helmut Newton (German,1920–2004). Jerry Hall and Thierry Mugler, Paris, 1996. Inkjet print: 21 5/8 × 23 1/4 in. (55 × 59 cm). Courtesy and © Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin

Inclusive creativity, made-to-order art, history, local artists, and much more are featured in our  collection at the .✍...
02/15/2023

Inclusive creativity, made-to-order art, history, local artists, and much more are featured in our collection at the .

✍️ Vocal Type
🖍️ All of Us Art
🌍 Kariandgo
🖼️ Faith Ringgold
📖 Leah Thomas via Hachette Books

Shop these items (and more) in-person or online: https://bit.ly/3B83TdA

Smitten! ❤️🤗Absolutely smitten with Hank Willis Thomas’s “And They Called It ‘Buppy Love.’” Happy , everyone! 📷 Hank Wil...
02/14/2023

Smitten! ❤️🤗

Absolutely smitten with Hank Willis Thomas’s “And They Called It ‘Buppy Love.’” Happy , everyone!

📷 Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976). And They Called It "Buppy Love" 1983/2007, 1983/2007. Digital print, 36 x 27 3/4 in. (91.4 x 70.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Mary Smith Dorward Fund and gift of Robert Smith, by exchange, 2010.18.16. © artist or artist's estate

Diamonds are forever, but so is plastic trash. Look closely and you’ll see these lovely lures are no ordinary bait and t...
02/14/2023

Diamonds are forever, but so is plastic trash.

Look closely and you’ll see these lovely lures are no ordinary bait and tackle. As part of DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, Duke Riley fashioned DIY fishing lures out of plastic collected from the Brooklyn waterfront as well as trash from the streets of New York City.

The tube of lipstick at-center seems quite apropos. Happy , everyone!

See the inventive ways Riley salvaged single-use plastic in the context of contemporary environmental dilemmas as part of through April 23.

📷 Courtesy of Duke Riley Studio

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In this interview with curator, Drew Sawyer, he explains the evolution of the memorial throughout the pandemic and how anyone around the world can take part:

Step 1: Visit acrackinthehourglass.net (link below / QR codes available for on-site visitors)
Step 2: Click “Participate” on the top off the screen
Step 3: Complete the online form with information about your loved one
Step 4: Attach an image of your loved one
Step 5: Click “Send” to finish

The memorial you create will become part of this gallery, which is viewable via livestream or as part of the archive online.

You can participate in the memorial, watch as portraits are created from hourglass sand, or discover more about Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's “A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial” at the link below. There, you can also find the exhibition description in Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

https://bit.ly/acrackinthehourglassbkm
Happy to us all!

Judy Chicago has interrogated and illustrated themes like identity, nature, mortality, and toxic masculinity for over fifty years. Her iconic 1970s installation, “The Dinner Party,” is ever-poignant – especially today.

Represented by hand-painted and shaped ceramic plates, individual needlework runners, and hand-cast porcelain tiles, “The Dinner Party” honors 1,038 women in Western history in order to convey “how many women had struggled into prominence or been able to make their ideas known—sometimes in the face of overwhelming obstacles—only to have their hard-earned achievements marginalized or erased.”

Created over the span of five years, the details of Chicago’s installation are layered and discoverable – from the equity-focused phrases woven on the entry banners, to the butterfly- and flower-like sculptures, which evoke vulvar forms in relation to the individual woman being honored, that appear on the plateware to reinforce the central motif of women’s strength and legacy.

Tell us your favorite detail, place setting or featured woman from “The Dinner Party.” And be sure to visit this permanent installation in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on the fourth floor during your next trip to the Brooklyn Museum.

Judy Chicago (American, born 1939). The Dinner Party, 1974-1979. Ceramic, porcelain, textile; triangular table. Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Gift of The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10.

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In 1981 and 1982, Warhol made a body of work titled Guns, Knives, and Crosses, intermingling faith and redemption with violence. According to the artist, the weapons recalled the Spanish Civil War and the crosses referenced “the Catholic thing,” given the religion’s dominance in Spain from 1492 through Franco’s fascist dictatorship (1936–75) and to this day.

Rather than depict the crosses as crucifixes with representations of the body of Christ, Warhol added bright colors and repetition to neutralize and universalize the symbol. Warhol also initially planned the Guns, Knives, and Crosses to be exhibited with his Dollar Sign paintings, collapsing icons of violence, power, and money.

See these pieces in-person at : https://bit.ly/revelationbkm

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of )
Make your way from Monet to Morisot. 🎨

In this newly opened exhibition, you will see approximately ninety works by Claude Monet, Gustave Courbet, Berthe Morisot, Francisco Oller, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy, and Vasily Kandinsky, among others.

https://bit.ly/3EVZuKU

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Bouquets of beautiful, bespoke blooms. Les' Blooms Floral is a small floral and plant boutique in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens / Flatbush neighborhoods, bestowing Brooklyn with unique flowers and event services.

“Our shop style is personal and intimate. Most of our customers stop in for flowers or plants and stay to chat with our friendly staff. We’ve made too many good memories here to count. Every couple that comes in for a wedding consultation is an amazing feeling. It's an honor for us for them to entrust us to beautify their very special day. We always aim to exceed their expectations. We've also been open for almost 5 years and in that time we've had the privilege of seeing so many families grow. We've gone from doing baby showers to the children coming in and picking out their own flowers.

Looking forward, we hope to keep Les' Blooms exactly where it is as a flagship and open a larger design space to bring on more talented, young designers. We already have really amazing young people working with us. I'm constantly blown away by their innovation and skill-set.”

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Baseera Khan’s I Arrive in a Place with a High Level of Psychic Distress names the often-unseen accumulated tolls arising from surveillance, oppression, and generational trauma. It also shows the engineering of self-protection, through color and ornamentation, seen in Rajasthani and Kashmiri textiles, jewelry, and lustrous nails. ⁠

To create these works, Khan built a 12-foot-tall transparent body-scanning platform, photographing their body in a variety of positions from below. The photograph was then overlaid with acrylic panels of different colors that correspond to chakra energy centers and ancient healing techniques in which specific colors are associated with therapeutic benefits. See these works on view in “Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive” through July 10, 2022. ⁠

https://bit.ly/khanbkm

📷: Baseera Khan (born Denton, Texas, 1980). I Arrive in a Place with a High Level of Psychic Distress, (Orange), 2021. Chromogenic photograph and laser-cut acrylic. Courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York. © Baseera Khan. (Photo: Stephen Takacs) → Baseera Khan (born Denton, Texas, 1980). I Arrive in a Place with a High Level of Psychic Distress (Greenpink), 2021. Chromogenic photograph and laser-cut acrylic. Courtesy of the artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York. © Baseera Khan. (Photo: Stephen Takacs) → Baseera Khan (born Denton, Texas, 1980). I Arrive in a Place with a High Level of Psychic Distress, (Blue), 2021. Chromogenic photograph and laser-cut acrylic. Collection of Debbie and Mitchell Rechler. © Baseera Khan. (Photo: Stephen Takacs)
The reviews are in! The New York Times, Interview Magazine, and Brooklyn Magazine have all shared their praise for Andy Warhol: Revelation for its exploration of the artist’s lifelong relationship with his faith that frequently appeared in his artworks.

Do you have a favorite artwork or object from ? If you haven't seen this special look at Warhol's creative process yet, learn more about the exhibition and reserve your timed tickets at the link in our bio.

On view until June 19: https://bit.ly/revelationbkm

📷 :Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of The Andy Warhol Foundation)
Paul Cézanne makes it easy to daydream about a getaway with "The Village of Gardanne.”⁠

In this painting, an example of the kind of radical pictorial vision that influenced later Cubist artists, Cézanne juxtaposed blocky, angular rooftops with the organic forms of the landscape. Gardanne is near his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in southern France, a region he found deeply inspiring. In an 1886 letter he described his ongoing engagement with its rich vistas: “The sky, the boundless things of nature, continue to attract me and provide me with the opportunity to look with pleasure.” ⁠

Visit these warm tones and rolling hills by walking through Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art on the fifth floor, on view now.⁠

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🎨 : Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906).The Village of Gardanne, 1885–86. Oil and conté crayon on canvas. Brooklyn Museum; Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund and Alfred T. White Fund, 23.105. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Writer and perfumer Tanaïs structured their latest book, "In Sensorium: Notes for My People", like a fragrance. Moving from base to heart to head notes the book brings memoir together with eons of South Asian perfume history, erotic and religious texts, and survivor testimonies.

On Thursday, March 10 at 7 pm, we'll host Tanaïs and Samhita Mukhopadhyay in conversation for .

Tickets are $20 ($16 for Members). You can also purchase tickets that include a copy of the book for $40. Get yours here:⁠ https://bit.ly/3vh3JQf

Presented in partnership with Asian American Writers' Workshop.

📷 : Harper Books
Today, artist Deborah Kass joined Museum staff to wrap her iconic yellow “OY/YO” sculpture to show solidarity with Ukraine and its diasporic communities worldwide fighting for sovereignty and democratic freedom. Kass hailed “Glory to Ukraine” as she reflected on her grandparents, who were from a small Jewish community near Kyiv. Her activation aligns with her original motivation in creating this sculpture—to connect communities and to see our commonalities. We thank the community member who reached out to the artist with this suggestion to activate our sculpture. The fabric wrapping is a nod to the late Christo, the Bulgarian-born artist who famously wrapped cultural monuments and buildings in fabric, notably the Reichstag Building in Germany and the Gates in New York City’s Central Park.

If you're looking for ways to , the following organizations are working to provide resources, essential supplies, shelter and safety for people in Ukraine:

Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Nova Ukraine, Global Empowerment Mission, OutRight Action International, United Help Ukraine, Revived Soldiers Ukraine

We have compiled additional information on these and other resources in the Tumblr post: https://bit.ly/3pz0yzr

© 2022 Deborah Kass / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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