Art
The Powerful Art of Satire, from Aristophanes to Today
At the Brooklyn Museum, a group of artists will trace the influence of political satire to the great ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.
Brooklyn Museum
News
Growing Coalition Calls Brooklyn Museum "Out of Touch" and Demands Decolonization Commission
Nineteen organizations have signed a letter calling on the Brooklyn Museum to form a "decolonization commission" after another letter to the institution last week went largely ignored.
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News
Coalition of Anti-Gentrification Groups Pressures Brooklyn Museum to “Decolonize” [UPDATED]
Anti-gentrification activists are calling on the museum to create a "Decolonization Commission" after a controversial curatorial hire.
Art
A Filmmaker Takes a Road Trip to Tell Stories of Caregiving
CareForce One Travelogues focuses on an American experience that's not often in the foreground of popular culture: caregiving.
Interview
Ahmed Mater’s Photographic “Prayer for Mecca” Documents a Changing City
"Mecca is in a constant cycle of construction and deconstruction — it’s as if change is the only constant."
In Brief
The Museum that Sold the World: Brooklyn Museum Asks $2,500 for VIP Access to Bowie Show
The museum has devised a whole range of ways to entice visitors into shelling out cash for the hotly anticipated exhibition devoted to the late superstar.
Art
Seeking Poetic Justice with Sonia Sanchez at the Brooklyn Museum
The National Coalition of 100 Black Women is hosting a reading in celebration of the acclaimed poet at the Brooklyn Museum.
Art
Two Rodin Shows Cast the Sculptor’s Legacy in Very Different Lights
Two Rodin shows place the first modernist sculptor in historical context.
News
Billionaire Loans $110M Basquiat to the Brooklyn Museum
The painting will feature in the museum's One Basquiat exhibition, January 26–March 11.
Art
Best of 2017: Our Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows
From project spaces off the beaten track to nonprofits in Dumbo, galleries in Bushwick, and the Brooklyn Museum, there was so much strong work in the borough this year.
Art
At the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Art
The Legacy of Lynching is a collaboration between the museum and the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, presenting racial histories we've long been asleep to.
Art
An Exhibition About Revolution that Keeps Faith with Ringgold
It is a great irony that the Faith Ringgold's first public commission was effectively imprisoned for over 40 years, but this situation raises valuable questions regarding our notions of the public and how that public is served.