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As if the cherry blossoms weren’t picturesque enough, listen to this visitor’s violin add another layer of serenity.

We love to see the Plaza become a gathering place—planned or impromptu—as the weather warms up. Enjoy your weekend, everyone. And share your visit to the Museum using #MyBkM.

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Happy Passover from our table to yours! 

From our Decorative Arts collection, this Seder plate is embossed with the Hebrew order of Passover at the center, with singles and pairs of pomegranates alternating with medallions of biblical figures depicting Moses, Aaron, David, Solomon and sacrifice of Isaac and Rabbi at Bnei Brak.

Seder Plate, ca. 1900. Parcel-gilt silver. Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by Louis M. Rabinowitz, 49.228.1.

“I would love for someone to come into the Brooklyn Museum and see who I am, but also my ancestors and also my descendants,” says Guadalupe Maravilla. 

Here, the artist is seen shaping a water-based adhesive around the metal frame of one of his “Disease Thrower” sculptures. The “Disease Throwers” are healing instruments, which Guadalupe began creating in 2018. The sculptures themselves have mouths, so to speak, in which a person can lie down and physically experience the vibrations from the gong that hangs on the end of the structure.

You can see this feature in its full-length at #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/fDeXiY72AuU

Courtesy of Mindscapes. Mindscapes is initiated by Wellcome Trust, a London-based global charitable health research foundation supporting science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. The two year-long program is a partnership with museums around the world.

Gala season is going strong, and thanks to Chiquitita, it’s about to get a little more extravagant.

Join us on April 30 at 8 pm for a night of drag, music, and burlesque with performances and musical sets by:

• West Dakota
• Panthera Lush
• Serena Tea
• Macy Rodman
• Foxy Belle Afriq
• Kirlia
• Horrorchata
• Chopstix
• Maya Margarita
• DJ P_A_T

Tickets start at $30 ($25 for Members, $40 at the door) and include after-hours admission to #WarholRevelation. Masks are required in order to visit the galleries.

Find out more and get your ticket: https://bit.ly/3uJgO45

How do we call attention to humanity? 

During the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968, Black sanitation workers carried signs of protest with bold, red text that declared, “I AM A MAN” after two men died while working in dangerous and exploitative conditions.

Those signs are one point-of-reference in Baseera Khan’s Psychedelic Prayer Rugs series, where the words “I AM A BODY” are woven prominently across the textile. In this work, Khan honors the social justice movements created by African Americans that continue to pave the way for other social and liberation movements.

You can see these wool rugs, handmade in Kashmir and custom-designed by the artist, in “Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive” on view through July 10.

https://bit.ly/khanbkm

✍️ Anjali Seegobin, EASCFA intern
Jonathan Dorado

Still starry-eyed from last night. It’s been two years since we’ve gathered in-person for the #BKArtistsBall, and you all did not disappoint!

Thank you to everyone who attended last night, dressed to impress and giving your best when it comes to supporting the Brooklyn Museum. It’s hard to select highlights when the evening included an elaborate, other-wordly photo booth designed by Randy Polumbo; recognizing our three guests of honor—Maria Grazia Chuiri, Saundra Williams-Cornwell, and W. Don Cornwell—and ending the night on the dance floor with a set by Swizz Beatz.

In order to ensure the mood stayed positive, we appreciate everyone confirming they were COVID-19 negative and vaccinated the day of the event.

Rupert Ramsay, Matthew Carasella (© BFA 2022)

Today is the International Day of Provenance Research! Recognized on the second Wednesday of April, it gives us an opportunity to honor the ancient history of trade and innovation of artwork and objects alike.⁠⁠

Take this jar from the Predynastic Period (ca. 3300–3100 B.C.E.), for example. The inhabitants of the Green Sahara who settled in the Nile Valley began developing some distinct styles of pottery. The geometric shapes decorating this jar were popular among early Nubian potters.The fact that this typically Nubian jar was excavated in El Masaid, Egypt, located just north of modern Luxor, shows that Egyptians prized, imported, and imitated Nubian pottery.⁠⁠

If you didn’t manage to get tickets to tonight’s Curator Talk with curators Annissa Malvoisin and Yekaterina Barbash on Ancient Nubian and Egyptian Vessels, you can learn more about the history of artworks like this in “African Ancestors of Egypt and Nubia: From the Green Sahara to the Nile.” Now on view in the Egyptian Galleries.

Jar with Impressed and Incised Decoration, ca. 3300-3100 B.C.E. Clay, paste. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 09.889.445. Creative Commons-BY

Meet the Museum has a way of bringing to life the youthful abandon and merriment of a Jerome Myers artwork. May Days are just around the corner and we still have spots open in the afternoon session! 

For three Sundays, beginning on May 1, young artists ages 2-4 and their adult companion will experiment with and explore art to discover who we are, learn about the world around us, and the ways in which art can help heal us.

Save your spot today: https://bit.ly/3xllD54

Jerome Myers (American, 1867-1940). Children Playing, ca. 1915. Graphite on beige, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, 40.694. © artist or artist’s estate → Faviola Lopez Romani

Premiering in 1966, Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls set the stage for today’s reality TV, giving audiences an unscripted glimpse into the lives of New York’s underground. ⁠
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In passages of intimacy, drug use, and performance, certain visual allusions suggest a lingering, lapsed Catholic backdrop. In several scenes, “Pope” Ondine—Robert Olivo, who appeared in several of Warhol’s films—performs a ribald confession ritual. Navigating same-sex desires, drugs, and drinking, Ondine references ashes (a Catholic symbol of repentance) as being “good for your beer,” chides Ingrid Superstar for disrespecting her parents (forbidden by the Ten Commandments), and clarifies he is “not one of God’s messengers” yet says “everywhere is where God is.” Ondine’s play at disreputable priesthood echoes the compassionate actions of Christ, who embraced social outcasts and misfits. In Ondine’s words: “I want to be true to my flock. My flock consists of homosexuals, perverts of any kind, thieves … criminals of any sort … the rejected by society. Okay? That’s who I’m pope for. I’m pope for the few who really care.”⁠
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The Chelsea Girls is screened twice daily as part of #WarholRevelation. Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/revelationbkm

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of @warholfoundation) #warholfoundation

This Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm, we will be joined by Guadalupe Maravilla, Lady Quesa, and Pastor Juan Carlos Ruiz for an exciting #BkMTalks on art, healing, and immigrant communities.

️ Guadalupe Maravilla, artist dedicated to healing through sculpture, drawing, painting, choreography, sound, and performance whose work is currently on view in “Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven”

✨ Lady Quesa, staple of the Brooklyn drag scene, regularly hosts the Yas Mama party at C’mon Everybody, and is supervisor of arts programming at youth development organization The Door

⛪ Juan Carlos Ruiz, pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Bay Ridge and, during the pandemic, collaborated frequently with Maravilla on mutual aid efforts including food distribution and sound baths

This program will include ASL and Spanish interpretation. Tickets are $16 ($14 for Members) and include after-hours access to #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM.

Learn more about the event and get your ticket.

If you haven’t explored “From the Green Sahara to the Nile: African Ancestors of Egypt and Nubia” yet, make your way to the Egyptian Art Galleries on the third floor.⁠

Recently opened, this activation addresses the African roots of ancient Egypt and Nubia, traces some parallels between Egypt and other African cultures, and highlights three of the many African American intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th centuries who wrote about Egypt as an African civilization at a time when this was not accepted. ⁠

Access to this activation is included with admission. Learn more about themes within the collection and the artworks that help trace this important, influential history: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/ancient_egyptian_art

On April 24 from 2-4 pm, we’re celebrating the end of the YWCA’s English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program with poetry.⁠⁠

We hope you’ll join us for The Art of Poetry: Empowering Communities, Literacy, and the Immigrant Experience to share in the stories and artwork these participants created inspired by works of art related to empowerment and activism, while further developing their English language skills.⁠⁠

This event is free and will take place virtually. Find out more and register here: https://bit.ly/37SkG9S

“The experience of grief and of mourning is cultural, it’s personal, and it looks very different for different people,” says Adjoa Jones de Almeida, Deputy Director for Learning and Social Impact at the Brooklyn Museum. 

Art is an expression that connects our heart to our minds. Adjoa speaks to the ways that artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer fuses emotion, action, humanity, and technology in “A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial.”

On April 23 from 3–6 pm, this exhibit will be part of “Imagine Repair”, hosted by The Zip Code Memory Project at The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. While celebrating of the power of community and care demonstrated by NYC neighborhoods unequally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, attendees are invited to join in a satellite installation of “A Crack in the Hourglass” by adding portraits and stories of their lost loved ones to the exhibit’s online archive.

Learn more about Image Repair

MILES Culture is a conceptual space located in the heart of Crown Heights on Nostrand Avenue specializing in original graphic designs, deadstock clothing and artist collaborations.

Only a few months away from their 5-year anniversary on Nostrand Avenue, Tariq Holloway had this to say about the brand’s evolution:

“When I first started the brand in 2011 I was asked to relocate from my home town of Philly to NYC to run a big box retailer. Brooklyn felt the most like Philly and so I planted roots in Bed-Stuy. Initially while working my full-time job, I would vend my graphics and deadstock clothing at some of NYC’s coolest outdoor markets–Hester St Fair, Afro Punk, Curl Fest, etc. The positive response from those festivals drove me to continue pushing the brand and look for more opportunities to get MILES Culture out there. I was lucky enough to apply for a pop-up space with a local non-profit in Bed-Stuy and won a month-long stay at an actual commercial storefront on Nostrand Ave. After the success of that pop-up I was pumped to open up a commercial space but was shocked by the price of NYC commercial rents. It took two years from that pop-up to secure the current space on Nostrand. This July makes 5 years in the space. That’s why our slogan is “Brooklyn based with love from Philly.”

MILES Culture:
717 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11216
[email protected]
@miles_culture
milesculture.com

Welcome to the weekend! Tomorrow marks the end of “The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time.”

Over the last year, we’ve loved seeing you all take to the Great Hall to enjoy this activation and find your feelings of joy and anger; relief and fear; love and vulnerability.

Experience the work of over 60 intergenerational artists—centering artists of color—through April 10. Access to The Slipstream is free with admission.

https://bit.ly/32dBqSI

(on Instagram): @jcodum, @mitiaokingkong, @johnatan_tam, @lanmishell, @queeriousquest, @andregunts2, @_bryjayc_, @yoko_katz, @bdlct

NW PEN. Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven.

Guadalupe Maravilla dedicates his artistic practice to healing. Through a combination of sculpture, drawing, painting, choreography, sound, and performance, his work offers a sense of grounding as a result of his own displacement from El Salvador’s civil war as well as helping to combat residual pain from surviving stage-three cancer.

The Healing Room, co-organized by the Museum’s teen staff in art education, guests can expect to be immersed in a sound bath of Maravilla’s own making, which merges vibrations and frequencies of gongs to release toxins in the body.
We’re excited to welcome you to visit and reflect on what personal and collective care means to you in this exhibition that explores transformation, migration, play, identity, and grief.

Learn more about #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM and plan your visit here.

Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven, April 8, 2022 - September 18, 2022. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

We are pleased to announce our 2022 partnership with Art For Change!

On the occasion of the Artists Ball, @artforchange will be releasing two new hand-embellished limited edition prints by Ebony G. Patterson and Oscar yi Hou to benefit the Brooklyn Museum. This partnership marks the second ART FOR CHANGE series benefiting the Brooklyn Museum, following the sold-out edition series in 2021.

Both prints will debut on the day of the Artists Ball, April 12. Sign up for the ART FOR CHANGE newsletter to gain early access to the prints at 10AM EST on 4/12. Prints will be released to the public at 1PM EST at artforchange.com.

ART FOR CHANGE will donate $500 from each print sold to the Brooklyn Museum, to help the institution fulfill its mission to be a home for inspiring art and courageous conversations. In keeping with all ART FOR CHANGE releases, both artists will receive 50% of the net proceeds from each sale.

For guests attending the Artists Ball, your safety is important to us. Guests are required to submit:

1. Proof of vaccination
2. A valid ID, and
3. Proof of a negative PCR or rapid/antigen COVID test taken no more than 24 hours before the event. 

Information on how to submit these required materials will be provided to the email with which you registered. Guests who do not complete this process will not be admitted. Masks are required except while eating and drinking. If you have questions, please contact [email protected].

Throwing it back to First Saturday. Thank you all for helping bring back #FirstSaturdaysBkM with style and safety last weekend!⁠
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Here are just a few of our favorite moments including: VIVA Brooklyn! on the Plaza with Mel Chin, participants creating Fundred Dollar Bills, a special town hall in the Auditorium, performances by Isa Reyes and Bathe, and guests gathering in the galleries.⁠
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We’ll be back with another exciting program in May, so look out for future announcements to register for free. Until next time!

Kolin Mendez

On view together for the first time, #WarholRevelation features Warhol’s source materials for the Last Supper screenprints for paintings and works on paper.

Reproducing an already widely interpreted image, Warhol upended its traditional form using patterning, repetition, isolating gestures and moments, and vivid colors in large-scale canvases that rival the size of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic fifteenth-century mural. One month before Warhol’s death, twenty-two of his Last Supper works were exhibited across the street from Leonardo’s mural in Milan.

See the Last Supper screenprints in-person at the Museum from now until June 19. 

https://bit.ly/revelationbkm

Visitors at Andy Warhol: Revelation. Brooklyn Museum November 19, 2021–June 19, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum. Artworks by Andy Warhol © 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Used with permission of @warholfoundation) #warholfoundation

Take comfort and care. It’s the made-to-wear message behind our collaboration with Standard Issue Tees. This limited-run collection of crewnecks, hoodies, and sweatpants is available now in the #BkMShop—in-store and online.⁠
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Celebrate the art of comfort and wear your Brooklyn pride. Get yours in our Shop.

http://bit.ly/shopbkm