Brooklyn Museum Archives

Brooklyn Museum to Open New African Art Galleries in Major $13M Renovation

24 March 2026 • Mark Westall

Expected to open in fall 2027, the transformational project will present one of the country’s most renowned African art collections

More than Two Hundred Artists Selected for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition

27 August 2024 • Mark Westall

The sweeping group show celebrates the diversity of Brooklyn’s creatives and the Brooklyn Museum’s rich history of championing the borough’s artists.

Brooklyn Museum – Solid Gold- Exploring Gold Through Six Thousand Years of History

17 June 2024 • Mark Westall

On the occasion of its 200th anniversary the Brooklyn Museum will mount the immersive exhibition Solid Gold, exploring the precious yellow metal in… Read More

Brooklyn Museum Announces its First Composer in Residence

8 April 2024 • Mark Westall

Marking a groundbreaking moment in its commitment to transformative artistic encounters, the Brooklyn Museum has welcomed New York–based classical cellist… Read More

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.

8 January 2024 • Mark Westall

We talked to Swizz Beatz about his art collecting way back in 2016 and when we asked who he was… Read More

See KAWS new 18ft bronze sculpture ‘SHARE’

13 August 2021 • Mark Westall

SHARE is a new big bronze 18ft sculpture from KAWS at Rockefeller Center’s Center Plaza through to October 2021. It features two… Read More

The largest solo museum exhibition to date of French artist JR to open in London.

26 May 2021 • Mark Westall

This November, Saatchi Gallery presents JR: Chronicles – the largest solo museum exhibition to date of the internationally recognised French artist JR, featuring some of his most iconic projects from the past fifteen years.

New KAWS exhibition to provide 360-degree survey of his 25 year art practice

16 February 2021 • Mark Westall

An upcoming exhibition aims to present the full 360-degree package of KAWS’s twenty-five-year art practice, featuring graffiti drawings, paintings, smaller collectables, furniture, recent augmented reality projects, and sculptures,

11 Art exhibitions to get excited about in 2021

4 January 2021 • Mark Westall

What a year 2020 was! Glad to get that over but seems like the beginning of 2021 is going to… Read More

EXHIBITIONS

Artist Eric N. Mack to have first solo museum show in New York City.

9 November 2018 • Mark Westall

In January, Eric N. Mack, a textile artist and painter, will have his first solo museum show in New York City at the Brooklyn Museum, where his site-responsive installations will be hung, mounted, and draped around the historic great hall.

$110.5 million Basquiat gets it’s own Brooklyn Museum Show.

15 January 2018 • Mark Westall

Japanese art collector Yusaku Maezawa has revealed that the Brooklyn Museum will be the first stop on a world tour of his blockbuster Jean-Michel Basquiat painting which he bought for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s last spring.

The wonderful Marilyn Minter’s sensual paintings on show @ The Brooklyn museum !

4 November 2016 • Staff

Marilyn Minter trains a critical eye on the power of desire, questioning the fashion industry’s commercialisation of sex and the body. Pretty/Dirty is the first retrospective of her work.

FAD’s Art World VIP Guide to NYC the Super PR Richard Scott

13 May 2015 • Mark Westall

We’ve already had curator Rick Heron and now we bring you Super PR Richard Scott who’s company actually handles the PR for Frieze..

NEWS

Opening this Thursday @Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York, Frohawk Two Feathers: The Battle of Manhattan

29 January 2014 • VC Maurer

Heartbreaking and Shit is Frohawk Two Feathers’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. Following the artist’s deeply involved narrative, Heartbreaking and Shit presents the “next chapter” in a device of fictionalized history that Two Feathers has become noted for.

Keith Haring: 1978- 1982 at Brooklyn Museum

20 March 2012 • Mark Westall

This collection covers a wide spectrum of mediums utilized by Haring, including works on paper, video and other objects like sketchbooks, journals, posters and subway drawings.