ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Kaws at the Brooklyn Museum
He is a global brand, but can a museum show lend Brian Donnelly’s art any credibility?
NewsDeaccessioning
Baltimore Museum of Art director defends diversity goals that his institution hoped to meet through art sales
At a conference on deaccessioning, Christopher Bedford says that museum collections are “a literal manifestation” of prejudice and privilege
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lorraine O’Grady’s first museum retrospective to Carol Bove’s Met façade commission
NewsDeaccessioning
US Association of Art Museum Directors sends a warning note to its members on deaccessioning
As works head to market, organisation reminds members that its relaxed rules were not adopted to “incentivise” art sales
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From UOVO Prize winner John Edmonds at the Brooklyn Museum to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy
NewsDeaccessioning
Brooklyn Museum steams ahead on deaccessioning
After netting $4.2m for a Cranach, the museum plans to sell off works by Monet, Dubuffet, Degas, Miró and Matisse
NewsExhibitions
Blockbuster JR show will travel to London's Saatchi Gallery from Brooklyn Museum
Murals, photographs and films by the French artist from past two decades will explore issues such as immigration and gun control
Newsdiversity
Rockefeller Brothers Fund plans $1.5m in grants to help New York museums promote diverse artists
Financial aid will help eight institutions “disrupt dominant narratives” and “build back a more equitable culture” after Covid lockdown
NewsDeaccessioning
Cranach, Courbet and Corot: a closer look at what the Brooklyn Museum is selling off
The institution is deaccessioning its only Cranach and 11 other works to finance care of its collection
Newsreopenings
New York clears the way for the city's museums to reopen
MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society
BlogThe Insiders
The Great Disruptors: two museum shows look back at 1970s New York
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Face-off with a founding father: Brooklyn honours African art by placing it amidst its other collections
New exhibition seeks to “fill in the blanks that are still present in museums and art history books”
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Kehinde Wiley’s reimagining of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Brooklyn Museum to Luhring Augustine and Sam Fogg’s collaborative show on Gothic art
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Chloë Bass’s show at The Studio Museum in Harlem to Yasiin Bey’s multimedia exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
NewsArt education
Brooklyn project waives court appearances for lawbreakers who agree to take art classes
District attorney says the initiative, which applies to minor nonviolent misdemeanors, promotes "human dignity"
NewsJR
JR on the 'sociological experiment' of street art and his vast New York mural for the Brooklyn Museum
The French artist, who made his name with large-scale public installations, is opening his biggest US exhibition to date
BlogIn the frame
Solange partners with museums to debut extended film version of acclaimed album When I Get Home
Free screenings of the performance art film will run at institutions across the US and Europe throughout the summer, closing at The Chinati Foundation in October
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Celebrate Pride Month with commemorations of Stonewall's 50th anniversary
NewsKehinde Wiley
Bonaparte comes to Brooklyn: Napoleonic paintings by Kehinde Wiley and Jacques-Louis David to be united
Both works will first be shown at Château de Malmaison, former residence of Emperor of the French before travelling to the Brooklyn Museum
PreviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Winogrand's little-known colour photographs to Miró's mammoth canvas
NewsExhibitions
Three exhibitions to see in New York this week
From Lucio Fontana's punctured canvases to an intimate look at Frida Kahlo's personal objects
NewsAfrican art
Brooklyn Museum's detective work reveals original owners of African mask
Family elders give blessing to new exhibition of Yorùbá masquerade costume, stolen from Nigerian shrine room 70 years ago
PreviewExhibitions
Have Brooklyn and Boston bagged Frida Kahlo blockbusters?
Shows at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston explore the Mexican artist’s love of fashion and “arte popular”
NewsPublic art
Do Ho Suh house sculpture stays put in London's square mile
Planning permission for the installation extended until 2020
News#metoo
'I have been sexually assaulted numerous times': Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak joins #metoo debate
The curator has called for women to be treated with "respect and dignity"
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
The power of Black artists resonates at the Brooklyn Museum, while Medieval monsters lurk at the Morgan Library
PreviewFrieze New York
The best shows in town during Frieze New York
From Adrian Piper at MoMA to Radican Women in Brooklyn
News
Activist group calls out Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of white African art curator
The museum has not yet responded to criticism about the “dismal rates of representation” of people of colour among its senior staff
NewsThree to see
Three to see: New York
Celebrate Women’s History Month through art, from feminism solving an ancient riddle in Brooklyn to Zoe Leonard's retrospective at the Whitney
PreviewExhibitions
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: David Bowie blockbuster gets New York remix
Around one-fifth of the objects in the Brooklyn Museum's show were not included in previous iterations
BlogLinda on the loose
Basquiat heads back to his Brooklyn home
NewsExhibitions
Three to see: New York
From Basquiat's $110m skull in Brooklyn to Viennese luxe in uptown Manhattan
NewsExhibitions
Brooklyn Museum first to show Yusaku Maezawa’s $110m Basquiat
Japanese billionaire has sent his prized 1982 skull painting on “world tour” after buying work at Sotheby’s last year
NewsThree to see
Three to See: New York
From Munch’s marvelous misery to the changing face of Mecca
News
David Bowie blockbuster is coming to New York
The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue for the internationally touring retrospective, launched in 2013
ArchiveNews
New culture war takes root in US as major news outlet censors art
Artists say they are under pressure to tone down their work after Associated Press removes images of controversial pieces
ArchiveCambodia
As New York prepares to display Cambodian art new and old, we assess the growing recognition of Cambodian contemporary art
An overview of the Cambodian art market, as well as names to look out for, and the legacy of the Khmer Rouge
ArchiveBrooklyn Museum
Revealed: one third of Brooklyn Museum’s Coptic collection is fake
Specialists warn that museums in the US and Europe will now have to re-examine their own sculptures
ArchiveFebruary 2000
In their need to raise sponsorship, are US museums risking the loss of their intellectual freedom?
We look beyond the Brooklyn Museum's Sensation exhibition into a troubling trend emerging across the sector
ArchiveIran
The Brooklyn Museum's landmark show of Qajar art exposes Iran’s more liberal roots
The first survey of a fashion for portraiture that swept the Persian court lifts the veil on Iranian history
ArchiveExhibitions
Womens’ rights campaigner, Mme Sadat, supports an Egyptian show with a pc twist
"Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven” is at the Brooklyn Museum 20 October - 5 January 1997
ArchiveCensorship
As the catalogue comes to Britain, James Hall slates “The Play of the Unmentionable”, the anti-censorship installation created by Joseph Kosuth at the Brooklyn Museum
Kosuth "keeps the ball rolling while not rocking the boat”