Brooklyn Museum

Happening: Sara Bigelow Breaks Down a Pig at The Meat Hook

Tuesday, May 7 Pig Butchering with The Meat Hook Sara Bigelow at The Meat Hook will give a demonstration on butchering an entire pig, and will discuss some uncommon cuts. Show up at 6:30 p.m. to sample sausages, sip beer from Great Brewers, and watch some serious knife skills. Tickets are $85. 100 F ... More >>

POP OVER TO AFRICA

No need to get a plane ticket for this cultural experience

Q&A: Oliver Jeffers and Adrian Coleman of the Brooklyn Museum's Go Project

Two of the contest's finalists talk art and Kings County

RUSSIAN 
BLANKET BINGO

There will be vodka

HEART OF GLASS

Jean-Michel Othoniel 
comes to brooklyn

Gay Museum Wars: Victory? Or a Truce?

For gay artists past and present, it gets better . . . slowly

FRESHLY SQUEEZED

Lemonade play 
Music Hall of Williamsburg

This Week in the Voice: Occupy Spring

This week in the Voice, out today, Nick Pinto tells the story of Occupy Wall Street's warm-weather return: "Dedicated Occupy activists dismissed the possibility that the movement had already run its course and promised an 'American Spring,' kicking off a new season of activism with May Day events co ... More >>

The Brooklyn Museum Hosts 'Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture'

A show that made 'em mad in D.C. comes to town

Cruel Portrait of Brooklyn Museum Director Displayed in Staten Island Borough Hall

Scott LoBaido, a Staten Island painter, describes himself as a "Creative Patriot." According to his website, his most ambitious works have been the world's largest version of the American flag (he claims) and a project where he painted 50 flags on one rooftop each state. He's also a religious Cathol ... More >>

Jumaane Williams, Brooklyn Councilman, Detained for Walking on Sidewalk

Yesterday afternoon during the West Indian Day Parade, in the midst of various incidences of gun violence, there was another incident involving the NYPD. Brooklyn Councilman Jumaane D. Williams, along with Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's aide Kirsten John Foy, was handcuffed and briefly detained by ... More >>

After Big Success in L.A., Will "Art in the Streets" Make It Back to New York?

Spray can do

Brooklyn Museum Cancels "Art in the Streets" Show

GREGORY BOJORQUEZ (COURTESY OF MOCA)​The "Art in the Streets" show currently on display at the MOCA in Los Angeles, under the new leadership of Jeffrey Deitch, was slated to travel next to New York City, but the Brooklyn Museum has pulled out, our sisters at the LA Weekly have learned. An ema ... More >>

Jay-Z To Talk Decoded With Charlie Rose at the Brooklyn Museum

The Decoded cover​To celebrate the release of Decoded, the "narrative journey through the lyrics and life" of Jay-Z, which will be published by Spiegel & Grau on November 16, the rapper will sit down for an interview with PBS host Charlie Rose in front of a live New York City audience. The eve ... More >>

THE FACTORY, REBORN

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Let’s find out!

FASHION PIONEERS

So you think you have original style? Think again.

BROOKLYN CHIC

Discover what your fashion future holds

Sarah Jessica Parker Offers Brooklyn Museum Show to Reality Show Contestants

​The eventual winner of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the art reality show Sarah Jessica Parker is producing for Bravo, will win $100,000 and a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum.

THE AMAZING KIKI

A new exhibit inspired by an 18th-century needlework

TRANSFORMERS

It's a new year, new you

This Weekend! Monsters of Folk, Girls, Basement Jaxx, And Wolfmother If You're Nasty

Here be monsters​It seems that even people you'd think would hate that Monsters of Folk record warmed to it -- more monster, less folk, I guess. The M. Ward/Conor Oberst/Jim James/less famous dude partnership hits United Palace Theatre tonight and the Beacon Theatre Sunday.

Slideshows Abound for Brooklyn Museum's Rock Exhibit

​The Times. New York magazine, Spinner et alia will show you slides from the Brooklyn Museum's Who Shot Rock 'n' Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present exhibit. They sure didn't get press like this for Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video. The show opened this we ... More >>

Oh Hello, Bow Wow Wow

​From the Brooklyn Museum's Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, opening tomorrow. Photo by Andy Earl, who got the idea to pose the band after Manet's 1863 painting Le dejeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass) from their manager, Malcolm McLaren. Annabella ... More >>

ICON STATUS

A photographic history of rock 'n' roll

STREET BEATS

Step outside for more than 800 concerts

Bones' Beat: Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea at the Brooklyn Museum

All images courtesy Brooklyn MuseumGustave Caillebotte, Oarsmen Rowing on the Yerres, 1877 French Impressionism has a remarkable and, it seems, endlessly renewable currency in contemporary museum culture. The recent show of Van Gogh nocturnes at MoMA spawned an agitated, gelatinous daily mob of fan ... More >>

Brooklyn Museum "Suggests" Youse Guys Pay More, See?

Yeah, it sucks that the Brooklyn Museum has raised its suggested admission fee from eight to ten dollars, their first such hike since 2004. But it's still a "suggested" fee -- you could just brass it out like people do at the Met and give them a dollar. They may try to guilt-trip you out of it, an ... More >>

WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND IT

Brooklyn Museum gets T.P'd sort of

Play Online Curator at Brooklyn Museum

VANITY FAIR

Gilbert & George wrap up a world tour

W. Indian American Day Parade Hot, Loud, Fun

Voice Choice: Click!

Atlantic Yards Opponents Protest Brooklyn Museum’s Choice to Honor Bruce Ratner Tonight

Saturday

MANGA YOURSELF

Murakami at Brooklyn Museum

Art Bites

Breast Intentions

The Brooklyn Museum surveys the world's female artists

The Parent Trap

Tattooed Madonnas and feral children: Photographers frame the family

Personal Blockbuster

Crossover Alley

Krazy Kat and Vegetable Sex to greet the fall season

American Graffiti

Flashy talk, sparkling points of light, and personal logos

Rudy Giuliani Was a Prophet, Too

Pulp Reloaded

Going for the Jugular of Sensation: Art Imitates Lowlife at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Naughty, Naughty

Lock And Load

Art's Bad Boys Mark Their Targets

Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

Brushed Off

For Women Artists, Recognition Comes Late

Dung Jury

Jockeying for Position in the Culture Wars

Man and Ape

A Controversy Evolves

Do the math.