Interview
What a Show About Masks Might Really Be Disguising
Masks present a quandary. It's not so much what they're hiding that I wonder about, but what the camouflage or costuming is meant to produce in me.
Brooklyn Museum
Art
In Brooklyn, a Forum Focuses the Fight Against Displacement
The road that led to last week’s Brooklyn Community Forum on Anti-Gentrification and Displacement at the Brooklyn Museum was long and winding, but its starting point is very clear.
Interview
The Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth Sackler on Mass Incarceration and the Role of Activist Art
At the Brooklyn Museum in June, Elizabeth Sackler read from James Baldwin's “An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis.”
In Brief
Air Conditioner Outage Shuts Down Brooklyn Museum for the Weekend
It appears this week's summer heat in New York has impacted the art world, as the Brooklyn Museum just announced it will be closed this weekend because of an "air-conditioning outage."
Art
A Brooklyn Museum App Encourages Visitors to Ask Questions
In May, the Brooklyn Museum launched the new Android version of its ASK app, a mobile application that enables visitors to interact with the museum’s audience engagement staff in real time.
Art
A Photo Exhibition About Israel and the West Bank that Chooses Sides
On the heels of last Saturday’s protest at the Brooklyn Museum, a more careful examination of one of the two exhibitions targeted by the protesters is in order.
News
Faced with Brooklyn Museum Inaction, Protesters Target Two Exhibitions
Close to 100 artists and activists staged a protest at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday afternoon in response to displacement — both in Brooklyn and Palestine.
Art
Brooklyn Museum’s Activist Art Show Is a Messy Collision of Curation and Politics
Agitprop! ought to be an outstanding exhibition of politically engaged art. A feverish amalgam of historic and contemporary artwork, the exhibition is undermined by an ambitious but poorly executed curatorial strategy.
Art
Thrills, Fantasy, and Nightmares in 150 Years of Art Inspired by Coney Island
Coney Island has a history as dizzying as any of the roller coasters, carousels, sideshows, and other frenetic attractions that have operated on its piece of Brooklyn shore.
Art
Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
We never get tired of traveling around Brooklyn to see art. From the scrappy galleries of Bushwick to the emerging nonprofits of Red Hook, here are our picks for the best art in our beloved borough this year.
Art
Fashioning an Identity for a Puerto Rican Painter on the Cusp of Modernism
The current exhibition of paintings by Francisco Oller at the Brooklyn Museum is a provocative and difficult show — a collision of curatorial strategies and recalcitrant artwork that defies the interpretive armature.
News
Decrying Real Estate Summit, Artists Stage Demonstration Outside Brooklyn Museum
"Gentrification in progress," read the tape, its black type printed on yellow strips as all good warnings are.