News
Eric Adams Aide Sought China-Themed Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
A new report details how Winnie Greco asked the museum to host a show about Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen — with a month-long turnaround time.
Brooklyn Museum
Books
Elizabeth Catlett’s Steadfast Radicalism
In the catalog for her Brooklyn Museum show, scholars explore how the Black revolutionary artist lived out her beliefs after her exile from the United States.
News
Ahead of Anniversary, Artists Urge Brooklyn Museum to Stand With Palestine
Cultural workers say the museum must “end its silence” on Israel’s violence in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank in a new open letter.
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.
News
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.
News
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.