Brooklyn Museum

Arty Facts

Categories, Art & design

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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....

"African Innovations"

History, Installation

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• 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...

"LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital"

Photography

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• 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

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• 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.

"John Singer Sargent Watercolors"

Painting

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• 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

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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.

Meet the Museum

Music, Art & design, Musicals, Art

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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...

Marcos Napa

Categories, Folk & ethnic

“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier”

Categories, Museums & Attractions

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• Critics' pick

Explore more than 140 of the French couturier’s gender-bending, avant-garde pieces, some of which are arguably closer to art than attire. (Admit it: A museum seems a fitting place for Madonna’s conical bra and Milla Jovovich’s costume from The Fifth Element.)...