News
These Are the 200+ Artists in the Brooklyn Museum’s Open-Call Show
Opening on October 4, The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition will celebrate the museum's 200th anniversary by spotlighting talent across the borough.
Brooklyn Museum
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In Shocking Move, Videographer Who Filmed Vandalism of Brooklyn Museum Leaders’ Homes Charged With Hate Crime
Press freedom advocacy organizations expressed alarm at the decision to arrest and charge 32-year-old independent journalist Samuel Seligson.
News
Woman Charged in Vandalism of Brooklyn Museum Director’s Home
Anne Pasternak was one of four museum leaders whose homes were graffitied with anti-Zionist messages following a heavily policed pro-Palestine protest at the institution.
Opinion
Brooklyn Museum Is Complicit in Violence Against Protesters
No other museum in living memory has permitted the mass arrest of members of the arts community engaged in a non-violent assembly.
Art
Nona Faustine Unearths New York’s Buried History of Slavery
Faustine’s White Shoes photography series demands a reckoning with the histories and afterlives of slavery, settler colonialism, and genocidal violence.
News
Homes of Brooklyn Museum Leaders Tagged With Protest Graffiti
The words “white supremacist Zionist” were spray-painted on Director Anne Pasternak’s residence two weeks after a heavily policed pro-Palestine protest at the museum.
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Activists Decry “Show of Force and Violence” at Brooklyn Museum Protest
The museum acknowledged that “the police brutality that took place was devastating” but said it did not call the NYPD.
News
Hundreds Call on Brooklyn Museum to "Divest From Genocide"
Police arrested dozens of protesters in a massive action for Gaza at the museum.
Art
Why Are Hiroshige’s Woodblock Prints Still So Moving?
The artist subverts the status system of 19th-century Japan, foreshadowing the impact of modernization and industrialization.
Art
The Lingering Shadow of Portuguese Colonization
Suneil Sanzgiri’s exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum joins lines of companionship across histories of colonial dispossession.
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Brooklyn Museum and PEN America Accused of “Silence” on Gaza Ceasefire
Activists staged an action at the museum after filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster and writers Nikki Giovanni and Doreen St. Félix withdrew from a planned event in protest.
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10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum
Around 300 people gathered at the museum to decry Israel's bombardment of Gaza and the suppression of pro-Palestine voices.