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: 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 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 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 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.
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📷 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 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 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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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 creativity, add warmth to your space, or support your self-expression, including:
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🎨 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 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
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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.
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!
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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 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, 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—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 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
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
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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 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 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 Terry’s Black Food Pantry
🕯️ Areaware’s Happiness Pillar Candle
🧩 Chronicle Books’ Faith Ringgold puzzle
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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
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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, 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)
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.
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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.
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“‘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)
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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, 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 .
✍️ Vocal Type
🖍️ All of Us Art
🌍 Kariandgo
🖼️ Faith Ringgold
📖 Leah Thomas via Hachette Books
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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 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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Whether you never skip a label, plan as you wander, or need to know more before you go, we’ve got you covered with the free digital guides and behind-the-scenes content available now on Bloomberg Connects. Now, you can explore the 5,500 years worth of human creativity available at the Brooklyn Museum within the app. If you’re planning to use the audio guides during your visit, we recommend bringing a pair of headphones for the best experience. #BloombergConnects App Store: https://apple.co/3DWSQW8 Google Play: http://bit.ly/3AeH4pk
In just two weeks, we will welcome you to Thierry Mugler: Couturissime. 🪡 In addition to haute couture designs, stage costumes, photography, films, and unpublished archives, this presentation expands on previous exhibitions in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and France to introduce an entirely new section dedicated to fragrance. With a wide-ranging career that spanned five decades and has been immortalized in music, film, fashion, design, and culture at-large, Thierry Mugler’s work continues to influence new generations. Plan your visit to see #Couturissime between November 18 and May 7, 2023. 🎟 https://bit.ly/ThierryMuglerBkM 🎥 Prêt-à-Porter Fall/Winter 1995–96 collection (“Cirque d’Hiver”) and Haute couture Spring/Summer 1997 collection (“Les Insectes”). Courtesy of Mugler Archives and Videopolis
We’re still celebrating. Now that the Arts of the Islamic World and Arts of South Asia galleries are reopened, we are leaning into the occasion for a night of music, dance, and poetry amplifying artists of the SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) diaspora. Join us on November 5 at 5 pm for #FirstSaturdaysBkM. First Saturday is a free event, we just ask that you register in advance. Admission is subject to capacity at the time of arrival. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3zSXy6r
Conversation on the climate crisis, salsa dancing and live music, a day of intergenerational inspiration with The Meteor, and a celebration of Virgil Abloh’s approach to architecture in the SOCIAL SCULPTURE. These are just some of the events coming up in November at the Museum. RSVP or get tickets: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI
Next week, on November 3, #BkMTalks will focus on strategies for addressing climate change and advancing environmental justice across art, social practice, policy, and grassroots organizing. Our guests will include: 🌊 Duke Riley 🌳 Kizzy Charles-Guzman 🍂 Nocturnal Medicine’s Larissa Belicic and Michelle Shofet 🌎 Ajay Singh Chaudhary Get your ticket: https://bit.ly/3TFGkAX
We invited some of Abloh’s collaborators—Antwaun Sargent, Shayne Oliver, Tyler Mitchell, and Samir Bantal—to speak with us in the "SOCIAL SCULPTURE" about the artwork and personal connections to Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech Watch more of our #VirgilAblohBkM exhibition videos and plan your visit today at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM!
“For me, design is about whatever I find is worthy to tell a story about,” said Virgil Abloh. Experience Abloh’s storytelling through design, fashion, architecture, music, and collaborations from his career in #VirgilAblohBkM through January 29, 2023. 🎟 https://bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM Major support provided by Nordstrom and Northern Trust. Additional support provided by Braun.
Quality exhibitions aren’t the only things we are curating this fall. Here’s a look at some of the programs—like #BkMReads, #VirgilAblohBkM SOCIAL SCULPTURE, and #BkMTalks—taking place in October. See the full calendar as well as what we have on view at the link below! 🔗 https://bit.ly/34QgwKI
“Like Abloh, the exhibit defies convention,” says TIME. Welcoming you all to this survey Virgil Abloh’s career has been a highlight of the summer. Experience #VirgilAblohBkM through January 29, 2023. 🎟 https://bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Now Open… Arts of Asia and the Islamic World. 🌏⛩️ “I want [visitors] to feel that these objects can talk to them, that they can relate to these things,” says former curator of Islamic Art, Ayşin Yoltar-Yildirim. “You can then see, well after all, this culture is not too foreign to me. I want to focus on what combines us.” Displayed on the second floor of the Museum, the new permanent home for the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World creates cross-cultural dialogue amongst collections that haven’t been on view together in over ten years. Experience the encyclopedic scope and diversity of these galleries featuring the newly installed Arts of South Asia and Arts of the Islamic World. Find out more about #BkMArtsofAsia and #BkMIslamicWorldArts: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions
As someone who reshaped how we understand the role of fashion, art, design, and music in contemporary culture, Virgil Abloh’s impact is exponential. Hear what our visitors have to say about #VirgilAblohBkM as well as Abloh’s influence on the ways we create and collaborate. 🎟 https://bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Our “histories” + “stories” = “historias.” This Saturday, October 1 from 5–10 pm will be a celebration of Latinx Heritage Month and LGBTQ+ History Month at First Saturday. The night couldn’t be complete without: Antonio Reynoso Balmir Dance Society Beatriz Yanes Martinez Brooklyn Pop-Up Market DJ Tenosh duendita Emma Francis-Snyder Fogo Azul La Banda Chuska Masauko Chipembere Mickey Melendez Moncho Alvarado Natasha Gordon-Chipembere Neyda Martinez Strings N Skins Tonya Cherie Hegamin First Saturdays is a free event, we just ask that you register in advance. Admission is subject to capacity at the time of arrival. 🎟 https://bit.ly/3dOalPE
Nothing beats New York in the fall. Even with today being the Autumn Equinox and temperatures cooling down, on our stoop you’ll feel less heat than you would just ten blocks east or west because the surrounding trees are lowering the temperature. We spoke with Mona Chalabi about her ambitions for “The Gray-Green Divide” and transforming data from New York City Department of Parks & Recreation into colorful, illustrative visualizations that engage us in confronting truths about inequities in our borough and about who has access to green space. Visit Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide through the fall.
“Horror movies have a long and sometimes fraught history when it comes to marginalized folks, but it’s also a genre that is rich with subversion,” writes Sarah Neilson for Them. “[It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror] is perfect for exploring the queerness of horror through a kaleidoscopic lens.” On Thursday, October 6 at 7 pm, we’ll be joined by Carmen Maria Machado and Sarah Fonseca for readings of their respective essays, as well as a performance by resident “femmecee” Miss Malice. Tickets are $25.95 and include a copy of the book. Tickets without the book are $16 ($14 for Members). 🎟 https://bit.ly/3BAEcmi
Dress like a star, and join us for the return of Brooklyn’s hottest party! This not-to-be-missed event features a DJ set by Swizz Beatz, as well as an open bar, special performances, and artist-led activations. Get access to our VIP lounge and even more perks with a VIP ticket. If you're not already a member purchasing a VIP ticket will include a complimentary 6-month Individual Membership or a 6-month Dual Membership when purchasing two VIP tickets. https://bit.ly/3Icbolp
"People can get angry about it, people can get melancholic about it. It's all valid and we welcome all expressions here," says Mica Verendia, Community Outreach Organizer at the Brooklyn Museum. In "A Crack in the Hourglass: An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial," the same grains of sand are used to create each unique portrait, bringing an added layer of continuity to the exhibition. Forming a limitless number of memorials, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's work is at the intersection of art, community and technology. Experience and take part in this moving memorial through June 26. You can visit acrackinthehourglass.net to participate and see the archive of all portraits created, so far. https://bit.ly/acrackinthehourglassbkm
These are just a handful of the full-time and part-time positions we're looking to add to our team. Will you throw your hat in the ring? See the full list of open opportunities along with their job descriptions: https://bit.ly/3lb1usz #BkMCareers
Even the term "multi-hyphenate" falls short of describing the extent of Virgil Abloh's impact over the course of his two-decade-long career. Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech" will showcase his creative process and collaborations across fashion, music, art, design, youth culture, and commerce. Newly added for this exhibition are never-before-seen objects from the artist’s archive, as well as a “social sculpture,” which draws upon Abloh’s background in architecture. As of today, you can book your advance tickets to "Figures of Speech," opening on July 1. #VirgilAblohBkM https://bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM Portrait of Virgil Abloh. Photo: Fabien Montique
What are you watching lately? Tune into #TheAndyWarholDiaries on Netflix with us! Like the artworks and objects on display in #WarholRevelation, this six-part series traces Warhol’s life from Pittsburgh to the glory day of The Factory and beyond, uncovering the lesser-known motivations and inspirations behind Warhol’s work. Because Warhol turned to religion and Catholic themes in his art and his personal life at pivotal times, we were excited to invite Netflix into the Museum to ensure Andy Warhol: Revelation and the objects within it could help tell this story. Keep an eye out for “The Last Supper” (1986), shown in the series trailer above! 👀 📷: Netflix
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 #WarholRevelation? 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)
When suddenly nothing was certain, we were faced with assessing, strengthening and calling on our support structures—personally and communally. On Sunday, March 13, Two years after the start of lockdown in New York City from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are hosting An Afternoon on Collective Care. The free daytime event features a curator tour of The Slipstream, the book launch of Care Manual with author Kamra Hakim, artist Annika Hansteen-Izora, and herbalist Marisa Hall, and live music by Rachika Nayar and Issei Herr. Guests will also be invited to discover and experience Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial," which is on view on the fourth floor of the Museum. Anyone seeking to mourn loved ones lost during the pandemic is welcome to participate in this project. This event is free, we just ask that you let us know you're coming. Register and find out more about this event: https://bit.ly/3Hu610A
The spring solstice isn't the only good thing March will bring. As we head into the first week of the month, we're excited to share with you some of the key events we have planned. Learn more about these events, art classes and tours happening at the Museum: http://bit.ly/bkmcalendar
Radical visionaries. Healing. Counterculture. And more. Here's just a sampling of what you can expect to see at the Brooklyn Museum this year: April 8 – Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven June 17 – DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash July 1 – Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” September 2 – Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe November 11 – Jimmy DeSana: Submission Mark your calendars and look for added information in the coming months. Don't forget: Members earn early-access to reservations for each of our special exhibitions. Find out more: http://bit.ly/2mccc5C 📷: Guadalupe Maravilla (born El Salvador, 1976). Disease Thrower #0, 2022. Gong, hammock, LCD TV, ceremonial ash, pyrite crystals, volcanic rock, steel, wood, cotton, glue mixture, plastic, loofah, objects collected from a ritual of retracing the artist's original migration route. Courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York. © Guadalupe Maravilla. (Photo: Stan Narten) ⇨ Duke Riley (American, born 1972). Untitled, 2020. Salvaged, painted plastic. Courtesy of the Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum. © Duke Riley. (Photo: Robert Bredvad) ⇨ Virgil Abloh preparing for his Autumn–Winter 2019 Off-White Womenswear Runway Show. (Photo: Bogdan Plakov) ⇨ Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900–1982). Untitled (Peace), 1978–82. Crayon and pen on paper. Courtesy of the Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta. © 2021 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/High Museum of Art, Atlanta. (Photo: Courtesy of the High Museum of Art) ⇨ Jimmy DeSana (American, 1949–1990). Marker Cones, 1982. Chromogenic print. Courtesy of the Estate of Jimmy DeSana.
On Saturday at 2 pm, our ASL Tour Guide, Joyce, will lead guests from the D/deaf community through #WarholRevelation. Although his printmaking and visual style are highly recognizable, Andy Warhol's immigrant roots and upbringing in the Byzantine Catholic faith remain lesser-known. Join us for this free, virtual event to learn more about the influences and inspiration that went into Warhol's work. Register here: https://bit.ly/3ccftZk 📷 : 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 @warholfoundation) #warholfoundation
Don't sweat the reservation rush! 😅 🎟 Members make your way to early access registration for Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech" today through March 9. Coming to the Great Hall on July 1, this exhibition will feature new and never-before-seen objects from Virgil Abloh's career including collaborations with artist Takashi Murakami (@takashipom), musician Kanye West (@kanyewest), and architect Rem Koolhaas (@rem.koolhaas), among many others. Discover more about Membership benefits, becoming a Member, or exhibition details for #VirgilAblohBkM at the link below. Tickets go on sale to the general public beginning March 10. https://bit.ly/3JMy0KD 📷: © Juergen Teller, All Rights Reserved
Starting at $2.40, the sale happening right now in the #BkMShop is something else. Check out some of the eligible items here and view the full sale here: https://bit.ly/3LNtgpH
Writer and perfurmer Tanaïs is our guest of honor at next month's #BkMReads on Thursday, March 10 at 7 pm. Join us for a multisensory exploration of their latest book, "In Sensorium: Notes for My People." The evening will include readings from the book, scent interludes, and a conversation with Samhita Mukhopadhyay, former Executive Editor, Teen Vogue. Tickets are $20 ($16 for Members). You can also purchase tickets that include a copy of "In Sensorium: Notes for My People" for $40. https://bit.ly/3vh3JQf Presented in partnership with Asian American Writers' Workshop
“Andy Warhol, that silver-haired Sphinx, was nothing if not a purveyor of paradoxes; any in-depth examination of his art and films has to face the mysteries posed by a vast body of work that is at once superficial and profound, cynical and sincere, brightly populist and cooly elite, ravenously fame-hungry and gnomically private,” writes Ed Halter for 4Columns. “The exhibition Andy Warhol: Revelation, now on view at the Brooklyn Museum, offers a compelling and surprisingly fresh framework by looking closely at the significance of Warhol’s lifelong Catholicism.” Experience the complex themes and iconic imagery of Andy Warhol: Revelation on view through June 19. Get exhibit information and tickets: https://bit.ly/revelationbkm Major #WarholRevelation support provided by @perrierusa. Andy Warhol is a registered trademark of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
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