News
Ai Weiwei Collects Lego Blocks by the Beemer-Load at Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum today became the first in the US to host a public collection point for Legos to send to Ai Weiwei.
Brooklyn Museum
Art
For the Love of Sneakers
Everyone discovers a new pair of sneakers from a different angle.
Art
A Photographer Documents the Highs and Lows of LGBTQ Life in South Africa
This past Sunday was both an auspicious and sobering time to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.
Books
An Intimate Reading of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Poetry
Those familiar with the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat will agree that he is a writer.
Art
Kehinde Wiley Paints the Precariousness of Black Life
Much has been made of the current Kehinde Wiley retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum.
News
Creative Time's Anne Pasternak Will Take the Helm at the Brooklyn Museum
This evening the Brooklyn Museum revealed that Anne Pasternak will succeed Arnold Lehman as the institution's director.
Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Immortal Black Life
Often, I consider what people will make of my notebooks after I am dead.
Art
Kehinde Wiley's "Politics of Perception"
The California-born, Yale-educated, Brooklyn-based painter Kehinde Wiley is an oddly polarizing artist, whose massive figurative paintings inspire both rage and adoration from his viewers.
Interview
On Leaving the Brooklyn Museum After 17 Years: An Interview with Arnold Lehman
Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he would retire from his position as the director of the Brooklyn Museum.
News
For #MuseumWeek, Institutions Share Their Secrets Online
What are museums hiding in their pasts and inside their collection storage vaults? Some of those secrets (or just lesser-known facts) are being shared by institutions around the world this Museum Week through the hashtag #secretsmw.
Art
Words Fall Away: 'Judith Scott — Bound and Unbound'
The first time I saw Judith Scott’s work was in Rosemarie Trockel’s retrospective, A Cosmos, at the New Museum.
Opinion
What to Make of the Village Voice's Offensive Kehinde Wiley Review?
If you're looking for a very generous review of the Kehinde Wiley exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, read Roberta Smith. If you're looking for one that's startlingly homophobic and racist, read Jessica Dawson.