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The Mummy ChamberEgyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor

This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian belief that the body must be preserved in order to ensure eternal life.

Wednesday 05 May 2010 to Thursday 01 January 2015
Art exhibition in Australia.

RodinThe Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum

Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion.

Thursday 01 January 2009 to Thursday 01 January 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Steinberg Family Sculpture GardenLong-Term Installation

Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum is a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures throughout the metropolitan area and reinstalled outside the Museum's Norman M. Feinberg Entrance.

Thursday 01 January 2009 to Thursday 01 January 2015
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

The Bride Who Married a Camel's Head image

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey is the first survey in the United States of this internationally renowned, Brooklyn-based artist. Spanning from the mid-1990s to the present, the exhibition unites more than fifty pieces, including Mutu’s signature large-scale collages as well as video works, never-before-seen sketchbook drawings, a site-specific wall drawing, and sculptural installations.

Friday 11 October 2013 to Sunday 09 March 2014
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

The Brooklyn Museum is the only East Coast venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking French couturier. Playful, poetic, and transformative, Gaultier’s superbly crafted and detailed garments are inspired by the beauty and diversity of global cultures.

Friday 25 October 2013 to Sunday 23 February 2014
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its AftermathRobert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor

WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath explores the experience of war with an unprecedented collection of 400 photographic prints, books, magazines, albums, and camera equipment, bringing together iconic and unknown images taken by members of the military, commercial portraitists, journalists, amateurs, artists, and numerous Pulitzer Prize–winning photographers.

Friday 08 November 2013 to Sunday 02 February 2014
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Doña María de los Dolores Gutiérrez del Mazo y Pérez, circa 1796 image

Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor

Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898 is the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the private lives and interiors of Spain’s New World elite from 1492 through the nineteenth century, focusing on the house as a principal repository of fine and decorative art.

Friday 20 September 2013 to Sunday 12 January 2014
Art exhibition in United States.

Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient EgyptEgyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor

From domesticated cats to mythic symbols of divinity, felines played an important role in ancient Egyptian imagery for thousands of years.

Wednesday 24 July 2013 to Tuesday 31 December 2013
Opening: Wednesday 24 July 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Hall, The Cupola House, circa 1725 image

Valerie Hegarty: Alternative HistoriesPeriod Rooms, 4th Floor

Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories is the second in a series inviting contemporary artists to activate the Brooklyn Museum’s Period Rooms. Hegarty’s site-specific artworks, which address themes of colonization, Manifest Destiny, and repressed history, are on display in the Cupola House parlor and dining room, and in the dining room of the Cane Acres Plantation.

Friday 17 May 2013 to Sunday 01 December 2013
Art exhibition in United States.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation: Ode to Joy, 2001–2013

The Bruce High Quality Foundation: Ode to Joy, 2001–2013 is a retrospective of over fifty works by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a Brooklyn-based art collective whose production includes subversive and often humorous installation art, live performance, film, and social sculpture.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Friday 28 June 2013 to Sunday 22 September 2013
Art exhibition in United States.

"Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts image

"Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical QuiltsElizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor

"Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts showcases approximately thirty-five American and European quilt masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned decorative arts collection.

Friday 15 March 2013 to Sunday 15 September 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Käthe Kollwitz: Prints from the "War" and "Death" Portfolios

This selection of thirteen rarely displayed prints by German Expressionist artist Käthe Kollwitz, from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, focuses on works relating to the impact of war. The exhibition features the artist’s most famous print cycles, War (Krieg) and Death (Tod), created between World War I, when her son was killed in Flanders, and World War II.

Käthe Kollwitz

Friday 15 March 2013 to Sunday 15 September 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted CapitalMezzanine Gallery, 2nd Floor

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital uses social documentary and portraiture to create a personal visual history of an industrial town’s decline.

La Toya Ruby Frazier

Friday 22 March 2013 to Sunday 11 August 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui

The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the artist El Anatsui will feature over 30 primarily large-scale works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between the bounds of sculpture and painting.

El Anatsui

Friday 08 February 2013 to Sunday 04 August 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

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John Singer Sargent WatercolorsMorris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor

This landmark exhibition unites for the first time the John Singer Sargent watercolors acquired by the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the early twentieth century.

John Singer Sargent

Friday 05 April 2013 to Sunday 28 July 2013
Art exhibition in United States.

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Raw/Cooked: Michael Ballou

The eighth exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series presents the work of Williamsburg’s Michael Ballou. A multimedia artist whose practice incorporates sculpture, performance, and collaboration, Ballou has altered three spaces in the Brooklyn Museum with site-specific installations. Connecting them is his interest in the appearance, behavior, and inner lives of animals.

Michael Ballou

Friday 12 April 2013 to Sunday 07 July 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Faience Manufacturing Company (1881–1892). Covered Vase, circa 1887. image

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Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company

Nearly forty decorative arts objects, including vases, ewers, plates, and other wares, drawn from public and private collections, will be on display at the Brooklyn Museum in the exhibition Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company.

Edward Lycett

Thursday 03 May 2012 to Sunday 16 June 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Portrait of Minnie Clark, circa 1890s image

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Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn MuseumRobert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor

Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum presents a selection of over 100 of the finest, rarely seen drawings and sketchbooks from the Museum’s world-renowned collection of American art.

Friday 08 March 2013 to Sunday 26 May 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Raw/Cooked: Marela Zacarias

The second season of Raw/Cooked presents a series of four exhibitions by under-the-radar Brooklyn artists who have been invited by the Brooklyn Museum with support from Bloomberg to show their first major museum exhibitions. The artists are given the opportunity to work with the Museum’s collection and to display in spaces of their choosing, however unconventional.

Marela Zacarias

Friday 01 February 2013 to Sunday 28 April 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

GO: a community-curated open studio project

Brooklyn is home to more artists than anywhere else in the United States, making it the creative capital of the art world. GO: a community-curated open studio project is a borough-wide initiative designed to foster personal exchange between Brooklyn-based artists, their communities, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Saturday 01 December 2012 to Sunday 24 February 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

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"Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art

The first exhibition to explore the impact of the feminist writer, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard on the Conceptual art movement.

Lucy Lippard

Friday 14 September 2012 to Sunday 17 February 2013
Art exhibition in United States.

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Raw/Cooked: Duron Jackson

Raw/Cooked opens on November 16 with Rumination, an exhibition of the work of Bedford-Stuyvesant–based artist Duron Jackson, recommended by Thomas. Jackson’s multimedia installation evokes a private library or reading room, where viewers are invited to contemplate themes of race and power embedded in American history and culture.

Duron Jackson

Friday 16 November 2012 to Sunday 10 February 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

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Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe

The Brooklyn Museum will present the first solo museum exhibition by Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Mickalene Thomas, best known for her vibrant paintings of African American women against backdrops of decor recalled from her childhood.

Mickalene Thomas

Friday 28 September 2012 to Sunday 20 January 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Wish Tree

Trained as a musician, Yoko Ono began creating artworks she called “instruction paintings” in 1961. These word-pieces rely on viewers for completion, either through their imagination or by literally following the directions Ono had written. Wish Tree expands on these early works by soliciting and gathering wishes from those who encounter it.

Yoko Ono

Thursday 15 November 2012 to Sunday 06 January 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Arts of Asia and the Islamic WorldLong Term Installation

The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred masterpieces from these extraordinary holdings, representing China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, and the Islamic world.

Thursday 01 January 2009 to Tuesday 01 January 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

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The Arts of AfricaLong Term Installation

Over 250 works spanning more than 2,500 years represent art from the African continent in the Museum's first-floor galleries. Additional related art from ancient Egypt and Islamic North Africa can be found in the second- and third-floor galleries. The main focus of the African collections is on sculpture from West and Central Africa.

Thursday 01 January 2009 to Tuesday 01 January 2013
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

Details of four works in the Connecting Cultures installation, from top: Korumbo Gable Painting, 20th century, unidentified Abelam artist; Girl in a Japanese Costume, circa 1890, William Merritt Chase; Mosaic Head Pendant, 700–800, unidentified Maya artist; and Life-Death Figure, circa 900–1250, unidentified Huastec artist. image

Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn

Niagara Falls An innovative installation, featuring some of the most important objects in the Brooklyn Museum collection, has been developed to create new ways of looking at art and exploring the Museum by making connections between cultures as well as objects.

Thursday 19 April 2012 to Monday 31 December 2012
Art exhibition in New York, United States.

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Jean-Michel Othoniel, My Way

Othoniel Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way, a mid-career retrospective of the work of Jean-Michel Othoniel, one of France's most prominent contemporary artists, features sixty-seven pieces that trace the artist's career over the past twenty-five years. It is the artist's first museum exhibition in the United States.

Jean Michel Othoniel

Friday 17 August 2012 to Sunday 02 December 2012
Art exhibition in United States.

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital features photographic works that intimately connect the artist's family and hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania through portraiture and social documentary. The project addresses how the effects of industrialization and de-industrialization creates sociological, economic and environmental shifts; impacting the lives of individuals as well as their communities.