Looking forward to more? Here’s what’s in store for the rest of 2024!
We’re getting excited for our upcoming exhibitions, and you should be too. Join us as we kick off our 200th anniversary, exploring art that protests injustice, reimagines contexts, looks to the future, and simply sparkles. ✨
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
→ September 13, 2024–January 19, 2025
With over 150 of Catlett’s well-known and rarely seen sculptures, prints, paintings, drawings, and ephemera, this exhibition traces a career of creative artistry and bold political activism. A transnational artist, Catlett was committed to depicting the strength and struggles of both Black American and Mexican communities.
Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art
→ Opening October 4, 2024
How might American art be experienced at this moment? In honor of our 200th anniversary, a transformative reinstallation of the American Art galleries will reorient the ways that the Brooklyn Museum exhibits—and audiences rediscover—this acclaimed collection. A kaleidoscopic display will offer paradigm-shifting interactions with millennia of art.
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition
→ October 4, 2024–January 26, 2025
This exhilarating major group show will illuminate the unparalleled breadth and depth of talent in our borough. Filling the Museum’s Great Hall, The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition will feature artworks in all mediums. Prepare to be dazzled: the exhibition will bring together an unprecedented number of Brooklyn artists, surpassing any showcase in the Museum’s history.
Solid Gold
→ November 16, 2024–July 6, 2025
Encompassing 6,000 years of gold in forms that express beauty, joy, ritual, and success, Solid Gold is a golden opportunity! Over 400 works range from painting and sculpture to fashion, jewelry, luxury objects, and beyond. The exhibition will provide a 360-degree view of our millennia-long fascination and obsession with gold while discussing the ramifications of its pursuit.
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From top: Elizabeth Catlett. Black Unity, 1968. Cedar. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.11. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. (Photo: Edward C. Robison III); Laura Wheeler Waring. Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1940. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Teresa A. Carbone, 2016.2. © Estate of Laura Wheeler Waring. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Paula Abreu Pita); Greek. Wreath (details), 3rd–2nd century B.C.E. Gold. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of George D. Pratt, 26.763. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies is organized by Dalila Scruggs, Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum; and Mary Lee Corlett, Associate Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings (retired), National Gallery of Art; with Rashieda Witter, Curatorial Assistant, National Gallery of Art, and Carla Forbes, Curatorial Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago.
This exhibition is made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Leadership support is provided by the Every Page Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation.
Major support is provided by MaryRoss Taylor.
Generous support is provided by Tom Healy and Fred P. Hochberg, The Maurer Family Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by
The American Art galleries are organized by Stephanie Sparling Williams, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art; Caroline Gillaspie, Assistant Curator of American Art; Catherine Futter, Senior Curator, Decorative Arts; Liz St. George, Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts; Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator, Arts of the Americas; Dare Turner, Curator of Indigenous Art; with Grace Billingslea and Michael Gibson-Prugh, Curatorial Assistants, Arts of the Americas and Europe.
Special thanks to our Brooklyn Museum American Art Advisory Committee and Black Feminist Roundtable.
This exhibition is made possible through support from the
Leadership support for this exhibition is provided by Tracey and Phillip Riese. Major support is provided by American International Group, Inc., Saundra Williams-Cornwell and W. Don Cornwell, and Pfizer, Inc. Generous support is provided by Lizanne Fontaine and Robert Buckholz, the Hasso Philanthropic Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Nkonye Okoh.
The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition is organized by Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli, and coordinated by Sharon Matt Atkins, Deputy Director for Art; Lauren Bierly, Senior Exhibition Project Manager; and Jennie Tang, Special Exhibition Administrator, Brooklyn Museum; with support from Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern; Carmen Hermo, Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art; and Contemporary Art; and Catherine Morris, Senior Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.
With tremendous gratitude, we thank the Brooklyn Museum Board of Trustees for their visionary support and commitment to the breadth of Museum and city-wide celebrations as we embark on our 200th year. It is with appreciation to them and the supporters of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition that we are honored to present the works of local artists who make our community what it is today.
Sponsored by UOVO
Significant support for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition is provided by the Brooklyn Museum’s Contemporary Art Committee and the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation.
Generous support is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip Aarons, Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Additional support is provided by the Arts, Equity, and Education Fund, Hope Dana and John Perkins, Cary Davis and John McGinn, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Carol Sutton Lewis and William M. Lewis, Gregory R. Miller and Michael Wiener, Susan and Peter Restler, and the Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation.
Solid Gold is organized by Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture; Catherine Futter, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Decorative Arts; and Lisa Small, Senior Curator, European Art; with Imani Williford, Curatorial Assistant, Photography, Fashion, and Material Culture.
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