Brooklyn Talks: Dr. Jane Goodall and Friends Brooklyn Museum 2023-04-05 | In honor of Earth Month, join us and our friends at The Meteor for a conversation with Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace, as she celebrates her eighty-ninth birthday. The ethologist, conservationist, peacemaker, and mentor will be joined by young leaders and changemakers who are advocating for our planet, including representatives of her own Roots & Shoots program.
Highlights Tour with Drew Sawyer | Inside Jimmy DeSana: Submission Brooklyn Museum 2023-04-02 | See which objects from Jimmy DeSana’s career are curator favorites, which of the artist’s photographs were part of private, mail-art networks for artwork-sharing, and the evolution of this significant, yet overlooked artist during this exhibition walkthrough with Drew Sawyer, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography.Visit Jimmy DeSana: Submission through April 16!bit.ly/JimmyDeSanaBkM
Brooklyn Reads: Bitter with Akwaeke Emezi Brooklyn Museum 2023-03-30 | oin Akwaeke Emezi for the launch of their latest novel, Bitter, which explores the stakes of social revolution and how youth lead the way. The companion novel to Pet—a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature—Bitter follows a young artist torn between staying within the walls of her studio or protesting in the streets against the deep injustices that grip her hometown of Lucille.The program begins with a reading from Bitter, followed by a conversation with Nic Stone, author of Dear Martin, about Emezi’s writing process and their wide-ranging career as an author and video artist. Emezi’s other novels include The New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) and Freshwater (2018), which was shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
90 Seconds with Erika Umali on Leon Polk Smith Brooklyn Museum 2023-03-16 | Did you know the very first contemporary retrospective of Leon Polk Smith’s geometric, abstract paintings took place in 1995 at the Brooklyn Museum?Meet Erika Umali, Assistant Curator of Collections, who walked with us through Brooklyn Abstraction to share details about this pioneering artist and his highly recognizable work, which you can enjoy in the Beaux-Arts Court through August 6. bit.ly/BrooklynAbstractionBkM
Praise for Thierry Mugler: Couturissime Brooklyn Museum 2023-03-09 | The reviews are in! If you were looking for another reason to see Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, here are six. Plan your visit now through May 7. An exhibition initiated, produced and circulated by The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Mugler. Curator: Thierry-Maxime Loriot. Our presentation is coordinated by Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture.
How To Share Your Migration Story | A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Brooklyn Museum 2023-03-08 | We invite you to share your own personal and familial stories of migration in this storytelling project that's part of the exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.A Movement in Every Direction presents a departure from traditional accounts of the Great Migration, which are often understood through a lens of trauma, and reconceptualizes them as stories of self-possession, self-determination, and self-examination. Additionally, the Brooklyn Museum’s presentation centers Brooklyn as another important site in the Great Migration, highlighting historical and contemporary census data about the borough’s migration patterns.Experience A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration through June 25.bit.ly/GreatMigrationBkM Video courtesy of Baltimore Museum of Art
A Look Inside Thierry Mugler: Couturissime Brooklyn Museum 2023-03-02 | “Couture on steroids.” Discover extreme, edgy fashion in Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, where the work of this revolutionary and multidisciplinary artist is on display through May 7. Pair this visit with lunch in our restaurant, The Norm, and you have yourself a perfect activity to get out of the cold weather.An exhibition initiated, produced and circulated by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Mugler. Curator: Thierry-Maxime Loriot. Our presentation is coordinated by Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture.bit.ly/ThierryMuglerBkM
Reclaimed | Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon Brooklyn Museum 2023-02-06 | “What drives me to paint is that I can't imagine my life without it.”While he made final preparations for the work that is on display in Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon, we visited @oscyhou in his studio. In this episode of Reclaimed, we discuss the themes of his first solo exhibition, how the histories of Chinese and East Asian people inform his work, and not accepting visibility for visibility’s sake. Our Reclaimed series focuses on art as a tool to reclaim traditional narratives of lived experience. An effort to highlight and empower groups that have been left out, stigmatized, and misrepresented. Follow along for a celebration of our differences and stride towards collective healing and social progress.Experience Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon through September 17.bit.ly/OscaryiHouBkM
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech closes January 29 Brooklyn Museum 2023-01-24 | Be it fashion, music, architecture, or design, Virgil Abloh created connections with subcultures and created alternatives to the status quo. Don’t miss your chance to see the Brooklyn presentation of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” before it closes on January 29. Tickets: bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkMExhibition Shop: church---state.brooklynmuseum.org
Brooklyn Talks: Oscar yi Hou Brooklyn Museum 2023-01-09 | We celebrated the opening of our special exhibition "Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon" with the artist and members of his creative community, artists Amanda Ba and Sasha Gordon, who also appear as sitters in his paintings. At a time of heightened violence against Asian communities across the United States, yi Hou questions what it means to be “Asian American” and who is considered “American.” The program is moderated by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator, Contemporary Art. Get more information on #OscaryiHouBkM at bit.ly/OscaryiHouBkM.This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, October 20, 2022.
90 Seconds with Kennedy Yanko Brooklyn Museum 2023-01-08 | No More Drama. An always-timely mantra and also the title of Kennedy Yanko's installation as part of Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Walls, Four Artists on view in the Beaux-Arts Court. “If you let yourself [be present] and come to this work empty, then it’ll definitely take you on a ride,” Yanko says.Visit Brooklyn Abstraction through August 6. brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/brooklyn_abstraction
Second Sundays: Benji B Brooklyn Museum 2023-01-06 | In our final Second Sunday conversation, we're talking music with DJ and radio producer Benji B.Filmed on December 11, 2022, this conversation is part of our Second Sunday program series inspired by "SOCIAL SCULPTURE", a highlight of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” The series is an opportunity to exchange knowledge and expand on Abloh’s multidisciplinary collaborations and creativity. Learn more at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Second Sundays: Oana Stănescu Brooklyn Museum 2023-01-06 | Today we discuss Architecture with architectural designer and founder of Oana S Studio, Oana Stănescu. Filmed on November 13, 2022, this conversation is part of our Second Sunday program series inspired by "SOCIAL SCULPTURE", a highlight of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” The series is an opportunity to exchange knowledge and expand on Abloh’s multidisciplinary collaborations and creativity. Learn more at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Second Sundays: Shayne Oliver, Jian DeLeon, and Will Welch Brooklyn Museum 2023-01-06 | Today we talk Fashion with Shayne Oliver, creator of Anonymous Club and founder of Hood by Air; and Jian DeLeon, Men’s Fashion and Editorial Director, Nordstrom; moderated by Will Welch, Editor-in-Chief, GQ.Filmed on August 14, 2022, this conversation is part of our Second Sunday program series inspired by "SOCIAL SCULPTURE", a highlight of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” The series is an opportunity to exchange knowledge and expand on Abloh’s multidisciplinary collaborations and creativity. Today's program is sponsored by Nordstrom.Learn more at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Collaborating with Virgil Abloh: Samir Bantal Brooklyn Museum 2023-01-06 | “I think there was a lot of admiration for the fact that he could move so fluidly within all these disciplines while being trained as an architect,” says Samir Bantal of his friend and collaborator, Virgil Abloh. Join Bantal on his visit to Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” as he reflects on working with Abloh in the field of architecture. Experience Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech" through January 29. Tickets: bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkMExhibition Shop: church---state.brooklynmuseum.org
Thierry Mugler: Couturissime at the Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum 2022-12-29 | A fashion visionary, Thierry Mugler established himself as one of the most daring and innovative designers of the late twentieth century. As he declared, “I like to say that Thierry Mugler designs are for a better, happier future.”Walk through the multiple, theatrical worlds of Thierry Mugler in #Couturissime through May 7, 2023. Get your tickets at the link in our bio. An exhibition initiated, produced and circulated by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Mugler. Curator: Thierry-Maxime Loriot. Our presentation is coordinated by Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/thierry_mugler
Reclaimed | Jenée-Daria Strand in Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe Brooklyn Museum 2022-12-21 | “Throughout Nellie Mae Rowe’s life you see her reclaiming a creative vision that was certainly present when she was a child, but also reclaiming a sense of self that she wasn’t able to fully leap into when she was moving about the world,” says Jenée-Daria Strand in the latest episode of Reclaimed. Ingenious. Bright. Energetic. We hope you can visit Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe before the exhibition closes on January 1, 2023. #NellieMaeRoweBkMbrooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/nellie_mae_rowe
Second Sundays: Bafic, JIM JOE, and Salamishah Tillet Brooklyn Museum 2022-12-12 | JOE and Bafic present the performance lecture "INTERN V INTERN," followed by a talkback with Dr. Salamishah Tillet.Filmed on September 11, 2022, this conversation is part of our Second Sunday program series inspired by SOCIAL SCULPTURE, a highlight of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” The series is an opportunity to exchange knowledge and expand on Abloh’s multidisciplinary collaborations and creativity.Learn more at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Behind the Scenes of Thierry Mugler: Couturissime Brooklyn Museum 2022-12-08 | Prior to the opening of Couturissime, art handlers, audio-visual designers, carpenters, conservators, curators, electricians, exhibition designers, and more spent weeks creating the continually changing environment for Mugler’s designs. Titled “Metamorphosis,” this concluding gallery includes pret-a-porter from Mugler’s early collection “Spirale futuriste” (Fall/Winter 1979-80), which was worn by Jerry Hall, to iconic haute couture works from the collections “Les Insectes” (Spring/Summer 1997) and “Chimère” (Fall-Winter 1997-98). The video projections for this gallery were designed by the award-winning Rodeo FX. Learn more and plan your visit to Thierry Mugler: Couturissime below:bit.ly/ThierryMuglerBkMbrooklynmuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/thierry_mugler
90 Seconds with Catherine Morris on Nellie Mae Rowe Brooklyn Museum 2022-12-06 | “[Nellie Mae Rowe] is often called an outsider or a folk artist or a vernacular artist,” says Catherine Morris. “But one of the things we really want to do with this exhibition is show Rowe’s participation in the expanded history of American art and make her the pertinent player that she is in that history.”Get a curator’s perspective with our own Catherine Morris. And experience Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe before it closes on January 1, 2023. bit.ly/NellieMaeRoweBkM
Collaborating with Virgil Abloh: Shayne Oliver Brooklyn Museum 2022-12-02 | “It sounds so backwards to say, but you have to break a lot of disciplines in order to create a new version of a discipline,” said Shayne Oliver in conversation with Virgil Abloh for AnOther Magazine in 2021. Shayne visited to SOCIAL SCULPTURE in #VirgilAblohBkM to share the impact that Abloh’s collaborative spirit made on his work and the projects they took on together.Experience #VirgilAblohBkM through January 29, 2023. bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
BkM Voices, Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” (Part 2) Brooklyn Museum 2022-11-25 | “[Virgil Abloh] made sneakers cool to a lot of fashionistas, and he made sweatshirts cool to people that wear Tom Ford all the time.”Hear what our visitors have to say about #VirgilAblohBkM as well as Abloh’s influence on the ways we create and collaborate. bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Collaborating with Virgil Abloh: Tyler Mitchell Brooklyn Museum 2022-11-19 | Over the course of his career, Virgil Abloh worked across disciplines, collaborating with graphic and furniture designers, musicians, contemporary artists, as well as other fashion designers.Walk through Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” with Tyler Mitchell to see which objects and artworks mark points of intersection for him and Abloh. bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Bloomberg Connects at the Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum 2022-11-14 | 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. As shared by Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, you can now explore the 5,500 years worth of human creativity on display at the Museum within the Bloomberg Connects app.We’re excited about the opportunities we’ll have to elevate the Brooklyn Museum experience through this partnership. Let us know what you’d like to see on the app in the comments below.Download Bloomberg Connects: bloombg.org/DownloadApp
Virgil Abloh Collaborators in Figures of Speech Brooklyn Museum 2022-10-19 | 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." See it through January 29, 2023.Get more information on #VirgilAblohBkM at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Praise for Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech Brooklyn Museum 2022-10-02 | “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.bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM
Unveiling Arts of Asia and the Islamic World Brooklyn Museum 2022-09-30 | 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. Arts of Asiabrooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/arts_asiaArts of the Islamic Worldbrooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/arts_of_islamic_world
BkM Voices, Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” (Part 1) Brooklyn Museum 2022-09-29 | As someone who reshaped how we understand the role of fashion, art, design, and music in contemporary culture, Virgil Abloh’s impact is exponential. In BkM Voices, Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” we spoke to visitors about Abloh’s influence on the ways we create and collaborate.
90 Seconds with Mona Chalabi Brooklyn Museum 2022-09-22 | We spent 90 Seconds with Mona Chalabi on the stoop amidst "The Gray-Green Divide." As the first in a new series, we are excited to share conversations with artists, collaborators, staff, and other people integral to the exhibitions and programming offered at the Brooklyn Museum.Here, Mona speaks about her ambitions for her installation on The Plaza and transforming data from NYC Parks and 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 fall 2022.
Perspectives: BkM Teens in the Healing Room Brooklyn Museum 2022-09-17 | There are only a few days left to experience Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven. Through his sculptures, sounds, and performances, Maravilla has shared his story of migration, illness, trauma, and healing that are inherent in this exhibition. These elements culminate in the Healing Room, created in partnership with the BkM Teens as an intergenerational community space for restoration and well-being. Visit #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM through September 18.
Brooklyn Talks: A Tribute to Virgil Abloh Brooklyn Museum 2022-07-07 | On the opening weekend of our special exhibition Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” we honored the profound legacy of artist and designer Virgil Abloh alongside members of his creative community. The conversation featured curator Antwaun Sargent in dialogue with Tawanda Chiweshe, creative director of the design firm ALASKA ALASKA, and Tremaine Emory, founder of Denim Tears and creative director of Supreme. Get more information on #VirgilAblohBkM at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM.This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, June 30, 2022.
Reclaimed | Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven Brooklyn Museum 2022-07-05 | Individually and collectively, the need for healing is increasingly important. As an artist who has survived cancer and was forced to emigrate from his native El Salvador due to civil war, Guadalupe Maravilla has devoted his artistic practice to healing. Focused primarily on working with undocumented and cancer communities, Maravilla’s sculptures, paintings and sound works create space for communal care.Our Reclaimed series focuses on art as a tool to reclaim traditional narratives of lived experience. An effort to highlight and empower groups that have been left out, stigmatized, and misrepresented. Follow along for a celebration of our differences and stride towards collective healing and social progress.Experience #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM through September 18.bit.ly/guadalupemaravillabkm
Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech opens July 1 Brooklyn Museum 2022-06-28 | Learn more about the exhibition from curator Antwaun Sargent.Get more information on #VirgilAblohBkM at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM.
Antwaun Sargent on Virgil Ablohs SOCIAL SCULPTURE Brooklyn Museum 2022-06-28 | Learn more about the SOCIAL SCULPTURE in Virgil Abloh: "Figures of Speech" from curator Antwaun Sargent.Get more information on #VirgilAblohBkM at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM.
Behind the Scenes: Virgil Ablohs SOCIAL SCULPTURE Brooklyn Museum 2022-06-27 | “It’s inclusive, not exclusive,” said Virgil Abloh. “That’s my style of creation.”This Abloh-ism rings true with the SOCIAL SCULPTURE that sits at the center of Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” A space conceived by Abloh and his design studio Alaska Alaska where designers, artists, architects, students, activists, and the community can come together and exchange ideas.We can’t wait to welcome you beginning July 1. Get more information on #VirgilAblohBkM at bit.ly/VirgilAblohBkM.
Our New and Improved Sculpture Garden Brooklyn Museum 2022-06-22 | Take a break and relax in our newly renovated Sculpture Garden! Many thanks to our partners Benjamin Moore, BrookLandscape, Elizabeth Roberts Architects, HAY, Signature Design and Construction, and TRI LOX for transforming our space into a revitalized location for community events and programming.
Reclaimed | Gabriel Garcia Roman in Andy Warhol: Revelation Brooklyn Museum 2022-06-05 | In this final episode of Reclaimed in Andy Warhol: Revelation, we’re joined by multidisciplinary artist and craftsman Gabriel Garcia Roman. From the exhibition to his studio, he shares his process and the ways he blends religious themes into his portraits of members from the LGBTQ+ community to reclaim religious power and queer narratives as part of the art canon.Our Reclaimed series focuses on art as a tool to reclaim traditional narratives of lived experience. An effort to highlight and empower groups that have been left out, stigmatized, and misrepresented. Follow along for a celebration of our differences and stride towards collective healing and social progress.Experience #WarholRevelation through June 19.bit.ly/revelationbkm
Museum & Garden Pass Brooklyn Museum 2022-05-24 | Art and nature; inside and out. Get the best of both with the Museum & Garden Pass. This special offer gets you same-day admission to the Brooklyn Museum and our neighbors the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.Simply purchase a Museum & Garden Pass and present your receipt for same-day admission to the Garden. The Museum & Garden Pass does not include admission to special exhibitions. Tickets at bit.ly/3FGyXmZ.
Reclaimed | Renee Cox in Andy Warhol: Revelation Brooklyn Museum 2022-05-22 | Through her work, Renee Cox is underscoring the importance of reclaiming self-love amongst the Black community. As an artist who has created her own version of the Last Supper, Renee discusses her self-portrait, the uniqueness of Andy Warhol’s Last Supper screenprint series, and what surprised her most about this exhibition depicting the iconic Pop artist’s relationship with faith.Our Reclaimed series focuses on art as a tool to reclaim traditional narratives of lived experience. An effort to highlight and empower groups that have been left out, stigmatized, and misrepresented. Follow along for a celebration of our differences and stride towards collective healing and social progress.Experience #WarholRevelation through June 19.bit.ly/revelationbkm
Reclaimed | Deborah Kass in Andy Warhol: Revelation Brooklyn Museum 2022-04-24 | Deborah Kass joined us in Andy Warhol: Revelation as the first subject of our new series, Reclaimed. The series explores the unique ways in which artists leverage their work to reclaim narratives of their lived experiences. During our conversation, Kass discusses her eight-year-long project inspired by Andy Warhol’s highly recognizable imagery, which aspects of Warhol’s life and artwork she finds most touching, and the continued role art plays in negotiating power and privilege. Our Reclaimed series focuses on art as a tool to reclaim traditional narratives of lived experience. An effort to highlight and empower groups that have been left out, stigmatized, and misrepresented. Follow along for a celebration of our differences and stride towards collective healing and social progress.Experience Andy Warhol: Revelation through June 19.bit.ly/revelationbkm
Art as an Essential to Individual and Collective Healing Brooklyn Museum 2022-04-10 | "The experience of grief and of mourning is cultural, it's personal, and it looks very different for different people," says Adjoa Jones de Almeida, Deputy Director for Learning and Social Impact at the Brooklyn Museum. Art is an expression that connects our heart to our minds. Adjoa speaks to the ways that artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer fuses emotion, action, technology and connection in "A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial."On April 23 from 3–6 pm, this exhibit will be part of "Imagine Repair", hosted by The Zip Code Memory Project at The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. While celebrating of the power of community and care demonstrated by NYC neighborhoods unequally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, attendees are invited to join in a satellite installation of "A Crack in the Hourglass" by adding portraits and stories of their lost loved ones to the exhibit's online archive.Learn more about the event: zcmp.org Learn more about the exhibit:brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rafael_lozano_hemmeracrackinthehourglass.net
The Art and Healing Behind A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial Brooklyn Museum 2022-03-21 | Started in 2020 by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer after having COVID-19 himself, this ongoing exhibition visualizes and memorializes the extraordinary loss caused by COVID-19. During a time when distance and stillness halted public rituals of mourning, "A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial" continues to provide a virtual and physical space to mourn loved ones lost to the pandemic. In this participatory artwork, a modified robotic plotter deposits grains of hourglass sand onto a black surface to recreate the images of those lost due to COVID-19. After each portrait is completed, the surface tilts and the same sand is recycled into the next portrait, echoing the collective and ongoing nature of the pandemic.Learn more:brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rafael_lozano_hemmeracrackinthehourglass.net
On View Through June 26–A Crack in the Hourglass: An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial Brooklyn Museum 2022-03-15 | "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.Learn more:brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rafael_lozano_hemmeracrackinthehourglass.net
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial Brooklyn Museum 2022-03-08 | 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 screenStep 3: Complete the online form with information about your loved oneStep 4: Attach an image of your loved oneStep 5: Click “Send” to finishThe 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 “A Crack in the Hourglass” at the link below. There, you can also find the exhibition description in Spanish, Russian and Simplified Chinese.Learn more:brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rafael_lozano_hemmeracrackinthehourglass.net
Praise for Andy Warhol: Revelation Brooklyn Museum 2022-02-28 | The reviews are in! The New York Times, Interview Magazine, and Brooklyn Magazine have all shared their enthusiasm for Andy Warhol: Revelation for its exploration of the artist’s lifelong relationship with his faith that frequently appeared in his artworks.Learn more about the exhibition – on view until June 19. bit.ly/revelationbkmArtworks 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)
Brooklyn Reads: Bitter with Akwaeke Emezi Brooklyn Museum 2022-02-18 | oin Akwaeke Emezi for the launch of their latest novel, Bitter, which explores the stakes of social revolution and how youth lead the way. The companion novel to Pet—a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature—Bitter follows a young artist torn between staying within the walls of her studio or protesting in the streets against the deep injustices that grip her hometown of Lucille.The program begins with a reading from Bitter, followed by a conversation with Nic Stone, author of Dear Martin, about Emezi’s writing process and their wide-ranging career as an author and video artist. Emezi’s other novels include The New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji (2020) and Freshwater (2018), which was shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Brooklyn Talks: White Shoes with Nona Faustine Brooklyn Museum 2022-02-12 | Artist Nona Faustine discusses her new book White Shoes in a conversation with book contributors Jessica Lanay, Pamela Sneed, and Seph Rodney. White Shoes is a collection of self-portraits taken in locations around New York that were the sites of slave auctions, burial grounds, slave-owning farms, and the coastal locations where slave ships docked. Faustine confronts the city’s once significant—and now largely obscured and unacknowledged—involvement in the slave trade, in solidarity with the people whose names and memories have been lost but are embedded in the land.
Conservation of Assyrian Palace Reliefs at the Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum 2022-01-31 | King Ashur-nasir-pal II (883–859 B.C.E.) was the first Assyrian king to decorate his palace with carved stone reliefs. The palace was built at a site called “Kalhu” (in modern Nimrud, slightly north of Baghdad, Iraq). The decorations of this vast palace were meant to overwhelm the ancient visitor with the king’s power and to reveal the supernatural world where the king existed. The twelve reliefs on view at the Brooklyn Museum were carved with majestic images of kings, divinities, sacred trees, and magical beings called apkallu. The Assyrians believed that apkallu, portrayed as winged creatures with either human- or eagle-heads, survived the primordial flood to serve the king. Funding for the conservation of six of these reliefs was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. Thanks to this grant, the Brooklyn Museum team completed documentation, cleaning, structural treatment, and remounting of the reliefs, reinstalling them paired as they would have been in their original architectural setting. We are deeply grateful for the partnership and generosity of Bank of America.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/assyrian_reliefs
Andy Warhol Revelation Closes June 20 Brooklyn Museum 2022-01-11 | There's something really fascinating about taking an iconic person, and figure in art history, and humanizing them. In Andy Warhol: Revelation, visitors get to enjoy a rarely-seen look into the artist's personal life—including his cherished relationship with his mother. For tickets, please visit bit.ly/2XbP7lZ.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)
Andy Warhol: Revelation—On View Through June 19 Brooklyn Museum 2022-01-11 | Andy Warhol: Revelation highlights how Warhol's Catholic upbringing is imprinted throughout his career. Learn more from the curators here, and book your tickets to also walk away from the exhibition and say, wow, Andy was more complex than I thought. For tickets, please visit bit.ly/2XbP7lZ.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
