What’s on deck at the Brooklyn Museum? 🛥️
From a replica of the Staten Island Ferry to Monet’s vision of Venice, our upcoming exhibitions will carry you on a wave of inspiration all year long.
Melissa Joseph: Tender
Opens June 6
Transforming the Brooklyn Museum’s outdoor plaza into a space for gathering and reflecting, UOVO Prize–winner Melissa Joseph explores how public art fosters human connection. Based in Brooklyn and with family roots in India and Ireland, Joseph is known for her distinctive fiber-painting practice that considers themes of belonging and cultural inheritance. Her vivid works capture deceptively mundane moments, meditating on simple interactions between friends and loved ones—people eating, resting, laughing, and embracing.
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
Opens June 11
A lamplit sanctuary amid the bustle of Brooklyn—and a refuge in uncertain times—the Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is a place to learn, reflect, and seek inspiration. The installation presents more than 100 artworks and ritual objects as they would be displayed in an elaborate household shrine, where devotees make offerings, pray, and meditate. Scroll paintings (thangkas), sculptures, furniture, and musical instruments dating from the 12th to 20th century are carefully arranged according to Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Chanted prayers by monks and nuns reflect the ritual practices and remind visitors that Buddhist rituals engage all the senses.
Become a Member to experience the installation after-hours on June 26!
Christian Marclay: Doors
Opens June 13
Passing through decades of film history and countless portals between on-screen universes, Doors (2022) is Christian Marclay’s latest cinematic exploration of the meaning behind everyday objects. Marclay (Swiss American, born 1955) is a conceptual artist, composer, and filmmaker. His acclaimed 2010 film The Clock, a 24-hour montage of time-related clips, won the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan”
Opens June 13
For the first time in more than 30 years—and on the city’s 400th birthday—experience a fantastical and hilarious tribute to New York. Ruckus Manhattan opened at Marlborough Gallery in 1976 as a sprawling, 6,400-square-foot “sculptural comic book” of urban life. Created by artists Red Grooms and Mimi Gross with their collaborators in The Ruckus Construction Co., the vibrant installation satirized the city with a dynamic mix of painting, sculpture, performance, and puppetry. From a high-heeled Statue of Liberty to a Financial District in flames, Ruckus Manhattan’s visual metaphors captured the chaos, corruption, sexuality, and creativity of 1970s NYC.
Monet and Venice
Opens October 11
Claude Monet once claimed that Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” a challenge he embraced by creating an extraordinary sequence of works depicting the Italian city. This exhibition reunites many of these paintings, which constitute a radiant yet underexplored chapter in Monet’s late career.
Become a Member to preview the exhibition on October 9 and 10!
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From the top: Brooklyn Museum exterior, June 2024. (Photo: Adrianna Glaviano); Melissa Joseph. Tender, 2025. Needle-felted wool and recycled sari silk on industrial felt. © Melissa Joseph. Courtesy of the artist. (Photo: Daniel Greer); Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room. (Photo: Dave De Armas, courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art); Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Company. Dame of the Narrows (detail), 1975. Mixed media. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Citizens Committee for New York City, Inc., 77.56. © Red Grooms, Member of Artists Rights Society (ARS). © 2025 Mimi Gross / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Claude Monet. The Doge’s Palace, 1908. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of A. Augustus Healy, 20.634. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Visitors in the Brooklyn Museum lobby, 2024. (Photo: Adrianna Glaviano)
Melissa Joseph: Tender is organized by Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Indira A. Abiskaroon, Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art.
The UOVO Prize is made possible by
The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is organized and provided by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.
Christian Marclay: Doors is organized by Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, with Indira A. Abiskaroon, Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art.
Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan” is organized by Kimberli Gant, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, with Indira A. Abiskaroon, Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary, Brooklyn Museum.
Monet and Venice is organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the Fine Arts Museum​s​ of San Francisco. The exhibition is ​curated by ​Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and Melissa Buron, Director of Collections and Chief Curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum​. Original symphonic installation by Niles Luther, Composer in Residence at the Brooklyn Museum.
Lead Sponsor
Additional support is provided by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
