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Don’t forget to save your (free) spot for the Juneteenth Jubilee on June 18!
We can’t wait to welcome you to this celebration full of activities celebrating self-expression, community, and Black liberation and creativity. You can expect performances by Renegade Performance Group and Brown Sugar Bounce, community portraits by Souls in Focus, signature food and drink by Bed-Vyne Brew, and art-marking and curator tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.
Let’s hear it for blue skies and sunshine! Outside the Museum isn’t the only place we’ve seen pops of blue and yellow. 💙💛
Plan your visit and share your experience with us using #MyBkM.
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🌈 Our 10th Annual LGBTQ+ Teen Night, titled “In This Town, We Show Pride,” is inspired by Oscar yi Hou’s exhibition, “East of sun, west of moon,” and will explore the themes of de-Westernizing-western, as well as power in pride and identity through a range of art-making, performances, and gallery activities celebrating queer art and activism! Be sure to invite your friends, family, and chosen family <3 🌈
At the start of the evening, join us for In the Saloon: De-westernizing Art, an artist talk with Augustina Wang and gallery activities in the Oscar yi Hou exhibition. In the Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court, customize your own pride flag, star badge, and capture polaroids with friends in our various art-making activities. Throughout the evening, enjoy performances by queer NYC-based artists such as PURP, Saint Ahmad, Constance, and share your talents at our open mic!
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ Teen Nights are FREE inclusive events planned by and for LGBTQ+ teens and allies ages 14-19. LGBTQ+ Teen Night is organized by InterseXtions, our paid LGBTQ+ teen internship in queer art history and community programming. 🏳️🌈
🎟 https://bit.ly/3IRsich
Music: “The Reason” by Saint Ahmad featuring Prince Harvey
Are you looking for exciting events to add to your summer bucket list? You’ve come to the right place! ☀️
These are just a few of the upcoming events we have in store for June. Get more info and save your spot: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI
What does it mean to know a place you’ve never been?
With her three, ground-level sculptural works in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, Leslie Hewitt explores the migration of her family, who were upholsterers and small-business owners, from Georgia to Chicago.
This journey is represented through the materials of her sculpture, which stand ceremoniously as fragments of ancestral memory brought together through their relationship with each other. The use of familiar glass vessels, such as the cups, dishes, and jars seen here, further elicits a profound sense of family and home.
Discover Hewitt’s story and more as part of #GreatMigrationBkM through June 25.
📷 Leslie Hewitt (born St. Albans, New York, 1977). Untitled (Slow Drag, Barely Moving, Imperceptible), 2022. Hot-rolled steel, red oak, glass, 12 × 96 × 72 in. (30.5 × 243.8 × 182.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado) → Photo by Richard Renaldi
Start your weekend off on the right foot…quite literally. Meet us on the stoop, on June 10 and 17, for a gentle flow, morning class, open to all levels and led by local instructors. Followed by a guided meditation.
Tickets are available for $16 ($10 for Members) and they include general admission to the Museum.
📷 Kolin Mendez Photography
The more the merrier! We love seeing our visitors enjoying the Museum together. 🫶 Discover our exciting exhibitions and inspiring events during your next trip to the Museum. Share your visit with us using #MyBkM for a chance to be featured on our social media channels!
📷 @nodiras, @pg_miller, @ohmygoditsfullofstars, @huemily, @elpapademihija
The good vibes are implied at First Saturday: Pride. 🏳️🌈
Join us on June 3 for performances, art-making, an exciting exhibition tour of Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon, and much more.
This event is free, but registration is required. So get your group together quickly because admission is subject to our capacity at the time of your arrival.
Bank of America is a proud sponsor of First Saturdays 25th Anniversary Season. June First Saturday is presented by Perrier and Con Edison. Additional support provided by: Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Charles H. Revson Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts.
Galleries or gateways? 🌏️ ⏳️
Embark on a time-traveling adventure to far-off places without ever leaving the city through our collection highlights and exhibitions.
Plan your visit at the link in our bio and share your memories with us using #MyBkM.
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Life drawing models with a touch (or two) of glamor! ✨
June 8 at 7 pm brings the return of Drag and Draw. Come sip and sketch with us in our backyard Sculpture Garden with models from Yas Mama in honor of Brooklyn Pride, teaching artist Natalia Muñoz, and our hosted Horrorchata.
Get your tickets, which include after-hours admission to Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon.
📷 Kolin Mendez
Get ready to double down on your love for Brooklyn and the people who give this borough its heart.
Beginning on June 2, the work of Brooklyn-born photographer, Jamel Shabazz, will line our outdoor plaza just in time for summer. The installation includes hundreds of Shabazz’s portraits from the last 40 years showcasing the vibrant people and places of our beloved Brooklyn and beyond.
Meet us on the stoop and learn more about this installation: https://bit.ly/JamelShabazzBkM
📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). The Art of Love, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1988. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Pages from the photo album Frozen Moments in Time: 1990–2010. © Jamel Shabazz
Bruce Lee 🤝 Tom of Finland
In the artwork shown here, Oscar yi Hou performs the role of Kato, the sidekick and valet of the protagonist in the 1960s television show “The Green Hornet.” The actor, Bruce Lee, insisted on portraying Kato as a masterful martial artist to counter his subservient role. In homage to Lee, and in reference to the homoerotic art of Tom of Finland, the artist portrays Kato as queerly hypermasculine, destabilizing our perceived notions of masculinity.
See each of yi Hou’s 11, unique paintings as part of Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon through September 17.
🎨 Oscar yi Hou (born Liverpool, UK, 1998). Cowboy Kato Coolie, aka: Bruce’s Bitch, 2021. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 × 22 in. (71.4 × 55.9 cm). Private collection. © Oscar yi Hou. (Photo: Jason Mandella, courtesy of James Fuentes LLC)
To stay or to enlist?
It’s the critical decision that many Black families wrestled with as the armed services could provide economic opportunities and that question is illuminated by Zoë Charlton in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration. In her installation, Permanent Change of Station, Charlton creates a large-scale, multilayered vignette of deciduous and evergreen trees, Southeast Asian terraced rice fields, and Florida Spanish moss.
By placing together elements that do not naturally coexist, Charlton blurs the boundaries between the real and imagined; the familiar and foreign. In a large-scale drawing, a Black American woman in high-ranking military dress—perhaps a distant relative of or stand-in for the artist—prepares to launch a miniature U.S. Air Force McDonnell F-4C-23 Phantom II fighter plane toward the 1950s-era white suburb of Levittown, Pennsylvania.
Experience the details within Charlton’s work that incorporates landscapes from Vietnam and the Philippines, where her family served in the armed forces as part of #GreatMigrationBkM through June 25.
Hear from three of the artists—Akea Brionne, Leslie Hewitt, and Robert Pruitt—whose work is on view in this story-rich exhibition during Brooklyn Talks on May 18. They'll discuss their individual practices and the profound impact of this movement of millions of Black Americans across the South and the country.
🖼️ Zoë Charlton (born Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 1973; based in Baltimore, Maryland). Permanent Change of Station, 2022. Collage on wood panel and graphite, gouache, collage on paper. Pop-up construction: 73 1/8 × 195 3/4 × 120 1/4 in. (185.7 × 497.2 × 305.4 cm). Collage: 82 × 211 1/4 in. (208.3 × 536.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado) → E. Brady Robinson Photography
When school’s out, Summer Camp is in! 😎
Young artists ages 8–10 and 11–13 are in for a real artistic adventure with this summer’s schedule inspired by our exhibitions and collections:
✍️ July 3–7: Sculpture and animation inspired by DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash 🎨 July 31–August 4: Mixed media and photography inspired by Africa Fashion
Learn more about Summer Camp, including scholarship opportunities (available on a first-come, first-served basis) and save your spot: https://bit.ly/summercampbkm
📷 Brooklyn Museum summer camp, July 6, 2021 - August 13, 2021. Education studios. Brooklyn Museum (Photo: Jonathan Dorado)
A special bond, with love beyond!
Wishing all mothers and mother figures a happy Mother’s Day. This painting by József Rippl-Rónai, with its bright color and bold patterns, captures the beauty and strength that we celebrate on this occasion.
Rippl-Rónai’s work combines avant-garde techniques he observed while living in Paris with elements that reflect his home country’s distinctive, modern style. Here, he includes embroidered textiles and a still life of tulips, which were traditional symbols of Hungarian culture and identity.
Get a closer look at this painting in Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art on our fifth floor.
🖼️ József Rippl-Rónai (Hungarian, 1861-1927). Woman with Three Girls, ca. 1909. Oil on board, 24 1/8 x 36 3/4 in. (61.3 x 93.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 1994.68
What to Know:
Brought to you by BkM Teens and inspired by A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of The Great Migration this evening is focused on family, migration, and renaissance.
Between 1915 and 1970, in the wake of racial terror during the post-Reconstruction period, millions of Black Americans fled from their homes to other areas within the South and to other parts of the country. This remarkable movement of people, known as the Great Migration, caused a radical shift in the demographic, economic, and sociopolitical makeup of the United States.
What to Expect
Center around the theme of family and migration, first we’ll have teen popup talks and gallery discussions in the A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of The Great Migration exhibition, and then throughout the night we’ll have amazing art making activities like decorating your own memory boxes, creating your own charm bracelets, you can take cute photos in our photo booth, draw your family fondest memory, and reach back to your roots with writing a desire for your family!
Lastly, we have amazing performances by the New York Alliance Drumline, Brooklyn College Academy Step Team, and NYC Rapper HDBeenDope. Ending our night will be DJ O-Well setting the vibes for the night.
This program is free, open to all teens 14+. To register click here.
Are We There Yet? is organized by the Teen Night Planning Committee, our paid teen internship in public programming.
Posted by Malcolm Clyde, Senior Teen Night Planning Committee member
Sunshine, sculptures, smiles. ☀️
Soak up the best of Brooklyn this weekend. If you make it to the Museum, share your visit with us using #MyBkM.
📷 @briwrks, @pearlsmyers, @rayofsabibi_, @sirwilliam_h, @trishalvaro, @clariceartist
Feeling grateful this Friday!
Thank you to everyone who shared their story with us in the form of family photos and videos in honor of Africa Fashion, opening on June 23. We are overjoyed to see the heartfelt, vibrant, and (no doubt) stylish showcases of fashions from across the African continent and the diaspora.
Submissions, like these, are an integral part of Africa Fashion. While we can’t include every submission in the exhibition, we will share even more of your submissions on social media in a series called, In Our Own Style. We invite you to continue sharing your own photos along with a description of the people, fashions, and places they showcase on social media using #AfricaFashionBkM.
Discover the details behind Africa Fashion: https://bit.ly/AfricaFashionBkM
📷 Seya Fundafunda (@seyafundafunda), Ope Runsewe (@operunsewe), Kwasi Kessie (@kwasikessie), Hiywet Mimi Girma (@y_e_s_a_e_t), Paakow Essandoh (@paakowessandoh), Raven Irabor, Tiffany Murray, Jerome Krase, Brian Dekyem, Jennifer Nnamani
Can you help us pinpoint which animal this hide belongs to?
This papier-mâché mask is a recent acquisition, likely originating from Korea. With its four “golden” eyes, this mask likely represents a Bangsangssi character.
Our conservators have identified the methods of construction, but we are still working to identify which animal the damaged skin, which adorns the piece, came from. In the Conservation Lab, we have studied the skin morphology and narrowed down some possible candidates, including: tanuki, golden jackal, binturong, corsac fox, wolverine, or mongolian wolf. But it has been difficult to assess due to insect damage.
We also examined guard hairs from the skin under the microscope. The thick hairs vary in color, have an undulating shape and are roughly 3.98 ± 1.33 cm in length. The cuticle of the guard hair has a flattened distal-scale pattern. The pigment bodies are dispersed throughout the cortex. The medulla is irregularly vacuolated. The thick shield of the root bulb is spade-shaped and larger than the shaft.
If you or someone you know might have ideas for what animal this hide and hair might have belonged to, please drop your theories and reasoning in the comments below until May 23!
Heritage, signage, and language united.
In 500, Mark Bradford uses caulk to repeat the text of a 1913 advertisement on a grid of painted and oxidized paper on wood panels. The notice seeks five hundred families to inhabit the all-Black settlement of Blackdom, New Mexico, a site that had approximately 150 residents during the early twentieth century until the Great Depression, at which point it was largely uninhabited.
This wanted ad appeared in The Crisis, a quarterly magazine for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), to draw people looking for new opportunities across the country. Knowing only a few details about the migration of his mother’s family to Los Angeles, Bradford found great resonance with the story of Blackdom: a story of those searching for new possibilities and building community with and for other Black people.
See this work by #MarkBradford in #GreatMigrationBkM through June 25.
🖼️ Mark Bradford (born Los Angeles, California, 1961; based in Los Angeles, California). 500, 2022. Mixed media on sixty panels, each 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado) → Sim Canetty-Clarke, © Mark Bradford, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
