September
September is a month of anticipation! We’re waiting for school to start, for the leaves (and the temperature) to drop, and—most importantly—for a few new exhibitions.
We’re particularly excited for Monet and Venice—New York’s largest museum show dedicated to Claude Monet in over 25 years! The exhibition opens in just six weeks and kicks off with a fabulous Fall Fête. What are you waiting for?
Oliver Jeffers:
Life at Sea
Opens September 19
Seydou Keïta:
A Tactile Lens
Opens October 10
Mark your calendars
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dapperQ Presents Ten
Thursday, September 11, 6–10 pm
Celebrate a decade of New York Fashion Week’s largest LGBTQIA+ fashion show, presented by queer style platform dapperQ. Kick off the night with a happy hour hosted by Henrietta Hudson, New York City’s longest-standing brick-and-mortar lesbian bar, and shop featured and local designers before the runway showcase.
Art History Happy Hour: Ruckus Manhattan
Thursday, September 18, 7–9 pm
Grab a beverage and settle in for Art History Happy Hour, featuring short lectures on the setting, history, and humor of Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan.”
Brooklyn Talks: Oliver Jeffers
Monday, October 6, 6–7:30 pm
Dive into our interactive exhibition Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea during an evening of conversation and storytelling. To celebrate his latest children’s book, I’m Very Busy, Jeffers gives a behind-the-scenes look into his creative practice—and shares why the ocean is key to caring for our planet.
Even more happening
Studio Art Program: Fall 2025
Want to learn a new art skill, like printmaking or photography?
The Studio Art Program offers fun and challenging art-making classes for ages 6 to 96. Be inspired by professional teaching artists, discuss works in our exhibitions and collection, and create your own art. Each semester ends with a student exhibition in the Education Gallery!
Registration is now open for fall 2025.
Teen Program Applications Open
Calling all local teens! Our paid internships allow young people to work with Museum staff in exciting and educational capacities. These opportunities support youth leadership, critical thinking, and creative expression.
We’re currently accepting applications for the Teen Night Planning Committee, InterseXtions: Gender & Sexuality, and Museum Apprentice Program.
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival
September 5–7This year, the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival becomes a literary botánica, a sacred space where story meets ritual and memory becomes medicine. Writers, readers, and storytellers will share the remedies they carry: novels, poems, plays, and oral traditions that ground us in a time of upheaval. Come to listen, share, and be transformed.
The Atlantic Festival
September 18–20Join The Atlantic in NYC for three days of discussions on health and aging, the state of politics, the biggest ideas in tech and AI, the future of women’s sports, and much more. Also get sneak peek at the new season of Netflix’s The Diplomat! The festival features Scott Galloway, Dr. Becky Kennedy, Robert Downey Jr., H.R. McMaster, and many other speakers in discussion with Atlantic journalists.
From the top: Claude Monet. The Palazzo Contarini, 1908. Oil on canvas. Hasso Plattner Collection, Inv. MB-Mon-31; Oliver Jeffers, Spread from Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth (Philomel Books, 2017). © and courtesy of the artist; Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1949–51, printed ca. 1994–2001. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of the Musée national du Mali. © SKPEAC/Seydou Keïta, courtesy The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art; dapperQ Fashion Show at the Brooklyn Museum, 2023. (Photo: Grace Chu); The Ruckus Construction Company at No Gas Cafe at 88 Pine Street, 1976. Photograph © 1976 by Fred W. McDarrah, New York; Portrait of Oliver Jeffers. (Photo: Yasmina Cowan); Studio Art Program. (Photo: Faviola Lopez-Romani); Teen Program. (Photo: Danny Perez); Brooklyn Museum Shop products. (Photos: Paula Abreu Pita); Image courtesy of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival; Image courtesy of The Atlantic
