The Brooklyn Museum is Brooklyn’s big art museum. It’s also a cultural center for the Brooklyn community.
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Brooklyn Museum Exhibitions and Events
African American Mexican Women’s Art
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, an engaging retrospective about one of the defining Black woman (and Mexican) artists of the 20th century; is in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; from September 13, 2024 to January 19, 2025. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽
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Brooklyn Museum Tickets
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
(between Underhill & Washington Ave)
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
About The Brooklyn Museum
The Museum is an 1897 Beaux-Arts building. Originally intended to be the world’s largest art museum, it was designed by legendary New York City architects McKim, Mead and White.
First Saturdays
First Saturdays (except in September) are sort of a cultural block party. The Museum stays open late and hosts multicultural performing arts.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A Haitian-Puerto Rican New Yorker, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was the first international Black art star. In 2017, his “Untitled” (1982) set auction records for an American artist, a Black artist, and Contemporary art.
Basquiat’s interest in art came from his mother. As a child, she used to take him regularly to the Brooklyn Museum. The moral of the story is take your kids to the Museum!
New York Carnival
The Museum does not produce New York Carnival, but is the center of the celebration. 🇹🇹
Brooklyn Museum Collections
The Museum is known for its collection of African art and Art of the Americas. Much of the collection can be viewed online.
Arts of Africa
The Museum started collecting African art in 1900. An expansion of the collection with objects from what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo led to the African Art Exhibition of 1923, one of the first exhibitions of African art in the United States.
Kongo culture is one of the African Diaspora cultures that rooted in the Americas. Central Africa is closer to Brazil than the Caribbean, so Afro-Brazilian culture has strong Kongo roots, but the Kongolese influence is everywhere. Beninese and Haitian Vodou, New Orleans Voodoo, Cuban Palo, and Dominican Vudú are based on Kongo traditions. It’s were Haitian meríngue and Dominican merengue come from, and arguably even American jazz. Kongo musicians were singing “La Bamba,” the classic Mexican wedding song, in Veracruz, Mexico as early as 1683 (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).
Arts of the Americas
The Arts of the Americas collection includes Indigenous Pre-Columbian art. It was started in 1903 with a focus on Native American art.
In 1929, the second curator focused on art of Central and South America. There is important Mexican stonework and Costa Rican ceramics. The collection of Paracas textiles from Peru is one of the most important outside of Peru.
The Spanish colonial art collection is world class. The Museum is now adding contemporary work. 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇪🇨 🇲🇽 🇳🇮 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇪🇸
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
The Center produces excellent exhibitions of women’s art. Yes, it’s the Sackler family that created the U.S. opioid crisis. Supposedly Elizabeth is from a different branch of that family. Anyway, the curation is excellent.
Social Media
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Latin Artists and Events
- Basquiat, Haitian Puerto Rican 1980s art star 🇭🇹 🇵🇷
- Cecilia Vicuña, Indigenous Chilean (Andean) quipu 🇨🇱
- New York Carnival, Trinidadian and West Indian carnival 🇹🇹
- Rodin, French sculptor 🇫🇷
- Septeto Santiaguero, Cuban son 🇨🇺
Recent Latin Programming
JUNE
Juneteenth Celebration
The 2024 Juneteenth Celebration at the Brooklyn Museum honors Black Western culture with line dancing, community portraits (like in cowboy days), denim decorating, and good Juneteenth soul food; throughout the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; on Saturday, June 15, 2024, from 12-8pm. $20, ages 4-19 free. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸