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Current events
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"Drawbridge" Exhibiton
Drawbridge, a show of new work by Chris Domenick and Anne Pearce. Focusing primarily on figure, landscape, and still life, Domenick and Pearce construct from within a traditional framework in order to (...)
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"The Line That Connects You to Me" Exhibition
The Line That Connects You To Me asks audiences to go beyond the passive observation too often found in the gallery setting by presenting a physical line connecting one work to another that acts as a dialog (...)
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Elaine Duigenan "Intimate Archaeology"
Although usually viewed as something ordinary, functional and familiar, these modern-day digital photograms reveal stockings and hairnets as objects of beauty and intrigue. Duigenan fetishizes intimate (...)
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Chanika Svetvilas "Journeys"
In this site-specific installation, I have transformed the space covering the walls with ubiquitous plastic plaid tote bags made in China called "hong lan dan" (blue and red bag). They are also known by (...)
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Fay Ku "Fairy Tales Retold"
As an immigrant, I grew up hearing stories from my native Chinese culture. Aside from my parents' cooking and language, that was my only contact with that way of life. So, I understood from a very young (...)
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Nathan Kensinger "Twilight on the Waterfront"
My photographs bring you inside places you may have walked by a thousand times and always wondered about. They take you into Brooklyn's industrial waterfront, a world closed to the public for decades. (...)
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Randy Duchaine "New York Waters"
Throughout history, the working people of the New York waterfront have contributed to the expansion of the United States through their work on the New York Harbor, the Hudson River and the Erie Canal. (...)
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"Transit News: East Side Access - Tools for Tunnel Engineering" Film Screening
The original 63rd Street Tunnel built by New York City Transit was the city’s first successful use of tunnel boring machine (TBM) technology. Witness a TBM working to excavate and line new tunnels for (...)
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"Ancient Futures: The DNA of Culture & Civilization" Exhibition
- at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
- Media: Photography - Other
- Closes in 18 days
A revival of the 1990s monthly Avant Yard underground art experience in Tribeca, New York, that took the New York art world scene by storm, the exhibition Ancient Futures will feature work from several (...)
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"Relative Environment" Exhibition
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"Kindred Cool" Exhibition
Kindred Cool is a photography project that uses relationship between Ralph Ellison, Romare Bearden and Albert Murray as an inspiration for documenting other friendships forged and fostered through a shared (...)
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"Bridge as icon" Exhibition
In celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, Tabla Rasa Gallery presents BRIDGE as ICON. This exhibition offers artwork inspired by the world's best known bridge. The (...)
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"Rising Against The..." Exhibition
2008 is a political summer and while we can guess that people want to keep hope alive, there are still plenty of things that get nervy. These selected artists give voice to a wide range of rage. Some (...)
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"Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word, and Reality" Exhibition
How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's (...)
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"Cartoon Brooklyn IV" Exhibition
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"Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880–1920" Exhibition
Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880–1920 explores the myriad manifestations of Japonisme in a selection of rarely seen American works on paper from the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection. Concurrent (...)
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Ghada Amer "Love Has No End"
- at Brooklyn Museum
- Media: Illustration - Painting - Sculpture - Installation
- Closes in 60 days
Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, the first U.S. survey of the renowned artist’s work, features some fifty pieces from every aspect of Amer’s career as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, performer, garden designer, (...)
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Deborah Master Exhibition
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Zeckendorf Plaza,
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"What's New? Collecting at the New York Transit Museum" Exhibition
What do an 1860s model of a horse-drawn omnibus, a World War II air raid siren from an elevated subway station, and a set of “Dashing Dan” and “Dashing Dottie” cocktail glasses have in common? The museum (...)
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"Votes for Women" Exhibition
Votes for Women, the latest exhibition to be presented in the Herstory Gallery of the recently opened Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, explores Susan B. Anthony’s contribution to the American (...)
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"Tools of the Trade" Exhibition
An anemometer, a ballast fork, a pneumatic drill, an opacity tester, an oxygen deficiency indicator, a TelAutograph telescriber, signal locks, rail tongs and a portable shunt are just some of the fifty (...)
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"The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the automobile age" Exhibition
Examining the legacy of Robert Moses, this exhibition focuses on the Triborough Bridge, designed and built to connect three boroughs and accommodate New York’s burgeoning auto traffic. Enjoy our new illustrated (...)
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"From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith" Exhibition
This exhibition honors the gift of twenty-one pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982), primarily from Charles Russell, Smith’s companion (...)
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"Show me the money: From the turnstile to the bank" Exhibition
Every day New Yorkers spend almost $9 million to ride city subways and buses. Ever wonder where that money goes? MTA New York City Transit is the nation’s largest transportation system, serving over 7 (...)
Permanent events
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"American Identities: A New Look" Exhibition
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics, (...)
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"An Art of Our Own: Women Ceramicists from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
To complement the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, there is an installation of ceramics from the permanent collection made by women artists. Over 75 objects are included. Although (...)
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"Arts of Asia and the Islamic World" Exhibition
The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred (...)
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"Assyrian Reliefs" Exhibition
These twelve massive carved alabaster panels, on view together for the first time, dominate the walls of the Brooklyn Museum's Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art. Originally brightly (...)
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"Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms" Exhibition
The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th (...)
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"Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity" Exhibition
In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been (...)
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"Replica of the Statue of Liberty" Exhibition
The Brooklyn Museum has completed conservation work on its "little" Lady Liberty, a thirty-foot replica of the Bedloe's Island Statue of Liberty. The historic statue, which once adorned the Liberty Warehouse (...)
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"Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden" Exhibition
Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum is a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures (...)
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"The Arts of Africa" Exhibition
Over 250 works spanning more than 2,500 years represent art from the African continent in the Museum's first-floor galleries. Additional related art from ancient Egypt and Islamic North Africa can be found (...)
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"The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago" Exhibition
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized. (...)
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"Visible Storage ▪ Study Center" Exhibition
The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage (...)
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Rodin "The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum"
Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion. This newly excerpted presentation of the Museum's (...)
Upcoming events
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Asher Thal-Nir, Brendan Murray and Richard Garet Performance
This event will consist of a collaborative aural and visual live performance between Boston artists' Asher Thal-Nir and Brendan Murray, and NYC artist Richard Garet. The show will range from combinations (...)




