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l:Untitled(1982)
r:Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks(1978)
“The world is this thing around me that I made for myself and I see for myself. The world will, however, go on without me being there to see it, it just won’t be ‘my’ world then. That is what interests me most about the situation I am in now. I am making things in the world that won’t go away when I do.” –Keith Haring, journal entry, 4 May 1982
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This weekend’s First Saturday is now at capacity!
While First Saturdays are free, we’re trying something new and requiring advance registration so we can help manage crowds.
We’ve waited two years for the return of #FirstSaturdaysBkM and we’re so excited to see those of you who registered for performances by Isa Reyes, Bathe, and The Lay Out, hands-on art making, pop-up talks, a special town hall with central Brooklyn’s newest City Council members, and more!
If you didn’t manage to register for April’s event, please look out for upcoming announcements to register for events this summer!
Admission is subject to capacity at the time of registered visitors’ arrival and is first come, first served. If you’re not feeling well on the day of the event, please stay home.
There’s something really fascinating about taking an iconic person, and figure in art history, and humanizing them. In Andy Warhol: Revelation, visitors get to enjoy a rarely-seen look into the artist’s personal life—including his cherished relationship with his mother.
Will we see you at the Brooklyn Artists Ball After Party on April 12?
Get your ticket to Brooklyn’s hottest party hosted by our Young Leadership Council featuring a DJ set by Swizz Beatz, special performances, and artist-led activations. You dress your best and we’ll handle the complimentary wine and beer.
Get your ticket at the link below. Members receive a discount on all ticket levels.
Resistance. It’s one of the motifs that unifies the artwork from our contemporary collection on display in “The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time.” This includes the photography of John Edmonds, Elle Pérez, and Zanele Muholi.
Uniquely, these photographs celebrate the self-possessed presence and power of visibility. A do-rag, a chest binder, and a stoic portrait communicate activism in culture, identity and self-expression.
You can see these photographs in The Slipstream through April 10 along with other works from our collection that explore strategies for staying grounded, gathering strength, and considering paths into the future.
Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/32dBqSI
John Edmonds (American, born 1989). The Prince. Inkjet print on silk. Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 2018.5.2. © artist or artist’s estate → John Edmonds (American, born 1989). Ascent. Inkjet print on silk. Brooklyn Museum, Alfred T. White Fund, 2018.5.1. © artist or artist’s estate → Elle Pérez (American, born 1989). Binder, 2015/2018. Inkjet print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Contemporary Art Committee, 2019.15.2. © artist or artist’s estate → Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Sunday Francis Mdlankomo, Vosloorus, Johannesburg, 2011. Gelatin silver photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Robert A. Levinson Fund, 2012.72.1. © artist or artist’s estate
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Y'all make us look good—even on gloomy days.
In the spirit of serene, self-care Sundays, some gentle reminders for you:
- Applications for our Summer Internship Program close on April 2.
- #FirstSaturdaysBkM are back and still free, but RSVPs are required.
- Spring is in full-swing at the Museum—see what’s on view and on the calendar.
Added information on these and much more: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI
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Go ahead, zoom-in if you wanna. On the corner of Lafayette and Franklin Avenues, you’ll be happy to find Fan-Fan Doughnuts. This familiar neighborhood spot is known for delicious handmade doughnuts and worldly, wide-ranging flavors. Chef and Founder of Fan-Fan Doughnuts, Fany Gerson, spoke about the mission, attention to detail and the classic shop’s first-ever chocolate doughnut festival by sharing the following…
“Fan-Fan is dedicated to making great doughnuts, making people happy, and bringing people together. We celebrate diversity and are inspired by the flavors and traditions from around the globe.
We take a lot of care and pride in what we do. We make our doughnuts in small batches throughout the day so you will always have the freshest and often warm one! At the end of the day, we strive to create a loving community and bring joy to the world. The sense of community in the neighborhood and Brooklyn in general is very strong and one of the reasons I love it so much. Brooklyn has a rich history and also continuous movement at the same time. It’s interesting, vibrant and has great energy.
Last year I created our first chocolate doughnut festival and it was a 3-day chocolate fest! The theme was ‘Around the World’ as I felt people were homesick (I certainly was) and also longing to travel, to experience things and needed joy! The names and flavors of the doughnuts represented countries all over the globe and it was just so beautiful to hear people calling out the different name .. I’ll have “a South Africa, India, Mexico, Japan, Iran”.. etc… there was one moment where I stopped to take it all in. We had a huge line around the block and I looked up to smiles and kept hearing the names. It was beautiful. We are getting ready for our second chocolate festival, which will be in May. It will be a different theme, but we are sooo excited and cannot wait to share with the world!
We look forward to welcoming you soon! Also, please support small businesses.” #SupportBrooklyn
Fan-Fan Doughnuts
448A Lafayette Av, Brooklyn NY 11215
[email protected]
@fanfandoughnuts
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“I never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty.” - Andy Warhol
#WarholRevelation explores some of the lesser-known facets of Warhol’s life including faith, family and his identity. Plan your visit before June 19. #MyBkM
#ICYMI, tickets to Andy Warhol: Revelation will be 40% off during First Saturday on April 2 from 5–10 pm. #FirstSaturdaysBkM are free, but advance registration is required. Admission is subject to capacity at the time of registered visitors’ arrival and is first come, first served.
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More than a selfie surface. In Baseera Khan’s “Privacy Control,” a two-way mirror divides the seen and unseen, creating a metaphor for observation and interrogation in society.
Mirrors like these are associated with stereotypical interrogation scenes from procedural TV shows. They are also commonly used to separate gendered prayer halls in mosques, where women can look out, but remain unseen by men.
Our privacy is a fragile concept that is in question with the rise of technology. By photographing ourselves standing in front of the two-way mirror, we play a part in the tracking and surveillance inherent to smartphones. Combined with the English excerpts of the Qur’an, which Khan altered to remove racialized and gendered associations from the English translation, we are left to question the implications—both positive and negative—of visibility.
✍️ Anjali Seegobin, EASCFA intern
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In his most famous works of the 1960s, Warhol often lifted imagery from newspaper ads. In the 1980s, he returned to this source, drawing from spiritual advertisements but varying his approach by tracing the ads by hand.
The images include a Jesus Christ night-light, a reference to the book of Revelation’s apocalyptic mark of the beast, admonitions for good behavior in consideration of the afterlife, and a radiant star of psychic power. The question “ARE YOU DIFFERENT?” may indicate Warhol’s personal insecurities, or how his sexuality had marked him throughout his life.
Have you experienced #WarholRevelation yet? Bring a friend and grab a ticket: 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
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One is a wanderer, two is company, and up to ten is a group tour at the Museum.
Whether you’re bringing your family from out of town, a crew of colleagues, or a few friends, there’s a tour for you! Led by a team of art historians and educators, our group tours are available for many of our exciting collections as well as our special exhibitions. Experience our galleries together and discuss art with a focus on NYC history, female artists, Ancient Egyptian art, identity and representation, and more.
Group tours accommodate up to ten people and last about an hour and fifteen minutes. Get more information on pricing and availability: https://bit.ly/3qscSSE
Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando) (Japanese, 1797-1858). Cotton-Goods Lane, Odenma-cho, No. 7 in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 4th month of 1858. Woodblock print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Anna Ferris, 30.1478.7
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We’ve got some exciting news! Through the hard work and continued dedication of our local elected officials, the Brooklyn Museum has been awarded a generous $3M grant to help bring our celebrated collection of African art back on view. The funding will support the critical first steps towards creating permanent galleries for our Arts of Africa collection—which will open by 2025 in time for our 200th anniversary. In conjunction with special exhibitions focused on art of the African diaspora, our new galleries will be the second-largest freely accessible collection of African art permanently on view in New York City, and the only one located in Brooklyn.
We’d like to extend a special thanks to Senator Chuck Schumer, Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, and Representative Hakeem Jeffries for their leadership in securing this transformative grant and for making the new galleries possible!
Stay tuned for more information about the galleries and collection.
Temne artist. Mask for the Ordehlay (Ode-Lay) or Jollay Society, mid-20th century. Freetown, Sierra Leone. Wood, paint, plastic, metal. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Milton Gross, by exchange, 2013.25. Creative Commons-BY
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At long last… First Saturdays are coming back!
Join us on April 2 from 5-10 pm for the return of one of our borough’s most beloved events celebrating culture, community and the excellence of Brooklyn. We’re excited to share a dynamic lineup honoring the continued fight for Black liberation with special guests, including:
- Isa Reyes
- Bathe
- The Layout
- Mel Chin
- Anastacia-Renée Tolbert
- Quincy Scott Jones
- Cynthia Manick
Along with this incredible line-up, you can also see #WarholRevelation for 40% off during the span of the event!
First Saturdays are free, but advance registration is required. Admission is subject to capacity at the time of registered visitors’ arrival and is first come, first served. RSVP today at bit.ly/3qcIPy6
This week, our American Sign Language (ASL) Tours are back and in-person at the Museum!
We’ll explore the multilayered installations, sculptures, photographs and textiles that fill “Baseera Khan: I Am an Archive.” Discover how Baseera Khan uses their own body to visualize the lived experience of people at the intersection of Muslim and American identities.
Guests from the D/deaf community are invited to join us for this tour on March 26 at 2 pm. Register here: https://bit.ly/3ccftZk
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Started in 2020 by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer after having COVID-19 himself, this ongoing exhibition visualizes and memorializes the extraordinary loss caused by COVID-19.
During a time when distance and stillness halted public rituals of mourning, “A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial” continues to provide a virtual and physical space to mourn loved ones lost to the pandemic.
In this participatory artwork, a modified robotic plotter deposits grains of hourglass sand onto a black surface to recreate the images of those lost due to COVID-19. After each portrait is completed, the surface tilts and the same sand is recycled into the next portrait, echoing the collective and ongoing nature of the pandemic.
Participate and learn more about this exhibition.
All around us are signs of spring. ️
In sync with the #SpringEquinox, we’ll happily add one to the list—the return of the Pop-up Market on Sunday, April 10.
Happening most every Sunday throughout the summer, this outdoor market features local artisans and vendors offering artwork, jewelry, fashion, home and apothecary goods, and more.
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Glee all through the galleries.
If you’re heading to the Museum this weekend, be sure to capture your joy or strike a pose and share it with us by using #MyBkM.
Take a look at what’s currently on view and which events are around the corner: https://bit.ly/3hiILZx
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Apply to become a Museum Education Fellow!
As a Fellow you will learn from seasoned museum educators and gain in-depth fieldwork experience designing, facilitating, and teaching programs for adult, family, school, and teen audiences.
The Fellowship is 10-months long and runs from September 12, 2022 through June 23, 2023. Learn more and apply before the deadline on April 18 at the link below:
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Pioneer of modernism and contemporary style icon, Georgia O’Keeffe, is pictured here during a visit to the Brooklyn Museum in the 1950s.
Today, you can see a selection of O’Keeffe’s works in our American Art galleries as well as in the Luce Visible Storage and Study Center on the fifth floor.
All month long in the #BkMShop, we have a collection of prints and products featuring female creatives and women-owned brands to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth.
View the full collection: https://bit.ly/3ifFJVK
Brooklyn Museum Archives, Georgia O’Keeffe at Brooklyn Museum, possibly 1950 → Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986). 2 Yellow Leaves (Yellow Leaves), 1928. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 87.136.6. © artist or artist’s estate → Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986). Dark Tree Trunks, 1946. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 87.136.1. © artist or artist’s estate
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