Brooklyn Museum

"African Innovations"

History, Installation

• $
• Critics' pick

This long-term installation draws on the museum's impressive collection of African art, which spans 2,500 years and the entire continent. Approximately 200 works, arranged chronologically, will show the progression of ancient art to contemporary works...

Meet the Museum

Music, Art & design, Musicals, Art

• $$

Get your child acquainted with one of the city's greatest art institutions during a themed three-session workshop, offered on three Thursdays a month. (The morning session is for kids ages 2 to 3, and the afternoon session for children ages 2 to 4.) Adults...

"John Singer Sargent Watercolors"

Painting

• $
• Critics' pick

Between them, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston own perhaps the definitive collection of watercolors by America's preeminent early-20th-century painter and portraitist, John Singer Sargent. So it's only natural that the two institutions...

"Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum"

Drawing

• $

The museum's holdings of works on paper, by artists from 18th- to midcentury America, are brought out in this showcase of more than 100 drawings and sketchbooks.

"LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital"

Photography

• $
• Critics' pick

In this photo series, Frazier measures the decline of Braddock, PA, a distressed rust-belt city that is also the artist's hometown. The 40 black-and-white images on view are notable for their focus on members of Frazier's family, who are part of an ever-shrinking...

"Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui"

Mixed media, Sculpture

• $
• Critics' pick

Monumental metallic wall hangings made out of stitched-together bottle caps found at a Nigerian distillery are just some of 30 works being brought together, for this first solo show in a New York museum by the renowned African artist.

Arty Facts

Categories, Art & design

• $

In April, kids ages four to seven and their caregivers will explore the Brooklyn Museum's Luce Visible Storage/Study Center, which houses more than 2,000 American art objects. A family activity and an art-making session round out this superb family offering....

Arty Facts

Categories, Art & design

• $

In April, kids ages four to seven and their caregivers will explore the Brooklyn Museum's Luce Visible Storage/Study Center, which houses more than 2,000 American art objects. A family activity and an art-making session round out this superb family offering....

Target First Saturday

Things to Do

• Critics' pick
• Free

Marcos Napa

Categories, Folk & ethnic

Napa and his group offer Peruvian music and dance, as part of this month's Target First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum, "Life, Death and Transformation in the Americas."