Brooklyn Museum kicks off its bicentennial celebration, programming and exhibitions on Oct. 4 with “Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art” and “The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition.” The ...

Three chapters — “Brooklyn Made,” “Building the Museum and Its Collection” and “Gifts of Art in Honor of the 200th” — examine foundational aspects of the museum’s story.

The idea that I could create a space where people might just stumble upon these images by chance amid the daily hustle and ...

The Brooklyn Museum is celebrating its 200th birthday by turning some traditions upside-down. What is now one of Brooklyn’s cultural cornerstones started out in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices’ ...

The Brooklyn Museum is reinstalling its American art galleries and reaching out to local makers as part of its anniversary exhibitions. “We’re trying to reflect our deep roots as a center for ...

You can’t be a true Brooklynite and not visit the Brooklyn Museum. It’s a hard-won treasure, inside and out, and the pride of Brooklyn. The museum earlier this week. Photo by Susan De Vries. Related ...

Blue is the warmest color—at least it will be on Sunday, July 13, when the Brooklyn Children’s Museum goes full Smurf for a daylong bash that promises to be equal parts nostalgically wholesome and ...

Two surveys of hometown artists — one at the Brooklyn Museum, another of those it snubbed — serve as a meditation on recognition and rejection. By Max Lakin The 1863 edition of the Salon de ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. − Police are investigating after the homes of leaders of one of New York City's longstanding art museums were vandalized this week with red paint and a statement targeting the ...

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- The Brooklyn Art Museum is going toe-to-toe with other institutions around the country in a competition to name America's Best Museum. The 200-year-old museum is ...

Still, in 2003, Arnold Lehman, the outgoing director of the Brooklyn Museum, invited her to curate an exhibition of pulp-art paintings at the institution. Why tap her for the project? “Because I ...