Solid Gold
Closing July 6, 2025
Going, golden, gone!
Solid Gold explores millennia of gold in forms that express beauty, joy, ritual, and success. With over 500 works ranging from fashion, jewelry, and luxury objects to painting, sculpture, and film, Solid Gold provides a 360-degree view of our age-old fascination and obsession with gold.
See standout designs by Anna Sui, Christian Dior, Demna, Gianfranco Ferré, Giorgio di Sant’Angelo, Halston, Mary McFadden, The Blonds, Walter Van Beirendonck, and Yves Saint Laurent alongside gold-ground paintings, coins, and other treasures.
Don’t let this golden opportunity slip away . . .
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See some of the luminous praise this exhibition has received!
Last chance to shop our collection with Rome Pays Off, featuring artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat that’s on view in Solid Gold.
From the top: Wreath (detail), reportedly Corinth, Greece, 3rd–2nd century B.C.E. Gold. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt, 26.763. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Lorenzo Monaco. Madonna of Humility, ca. 1415–20. Tempera and tooled gold on panel with engaged frame. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mary Babbott Ladd, Lydia Babbott Stokes, and Frank L. Babbott, Jr. in memory of their father Frank L. Babbott, 34.842. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum); Image courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum Shop
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.
