Art
Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Immortal Black Life
Often, I consider what people will make of my notebooks after I am dead.
Brooklyn Museum
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.
Art
Finding a Voice in Fiber, Judith Scott Was an Artist, Not an Outsider
In the first major retrospective of her sculptural bundles of yarn and found objects, the late Judith Scott is celebrated not just for having found a way to creatively express herself late in life, after being institutionalized with Down syndrome and undiagnosed deafness; instead, the Brooklyn Museu
Art
Unwrapping the Ancient Egyptian Practice of Animal Mummification
Millions of animal mummies — some elaborately dressed, others plainly wrapped — were buried by ancient Egyptians and the exact reason for the death ritual is an ongoing archaeological mystery.
Art
Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
Between the proliferation of galleries in Bushwick and, to a lesser extent, Greenpoint, the small cadre of Dumbo galleries sticking it out, longtime heavyweights including the Brooklyn Museum and BRIC mounting ambitious shows, and Creative Time parachuting Kara Walker's sugar sphinx into the Domino
In Brief
Brooklyn Museum Mural Irks Self-Appointed Spokesman for All Hindus
The centerpiece of Chitra Ganesh's new Brooklyn Museum exhibition, a mural that depicts the Hindu goddess Kali, has provoked the ire of the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism.
Art
Crossing Brooklyn, Without Leaving the Safe Parts
Let’s begin with the obvious: to attempt a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary art from across Brooklyn would be not only impossible but foolish, a kind of Tower of Babel of artistic practice. And so the Brooklyn Museum’s eagerly awaited Crossing Brooklyn is not a sweeping survey but a tight, t
Art
Hyperallergic's 'Crossing Brooklyn' ArtTalks Tackle Alternative Economies, Performance/Activism, and More
Earlier this month, the Brooklyn Museum opened Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, a survey exhibition featuring 35 Brooklyn-based artists. In order to build upon the show's themes, Hyperallergic has partnered with the borough's foremost museum to organize three of our signat