What is the future of the Boulevard of Dreams? Join artists, activists, and advocates for the Grand Concourse for a community visioning session. Learn about ongoing efforts to improve walkability and bikeability and share your own ideas to make the Grand Concourse safer and more enjoyable for everyone. Presented in collaboration with Transportation Alternatives. Location: North Wing Lobby

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Treasures from the Irving Collection, 12th–18th Century.  Lacquer, the resin of a family of trees found throughout southern China—as well as in Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan—is an amazing material. This installation, which features all of the most important examples of Chinese lacquer in the Museum's collection, explores the laborious techniques used to create scenes based on history an...

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Ten Centuries of Masterpieces from the Met Collection - This installation, which explores the cultural importance of silk in China, will showcase the most important and unusual textiles from the Museum's collection.  Spectacular embroideries—including an imperial fourteenth-century canopy decorated with phoenixes and flowers, and a monumental late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century panel ...

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From the decadent Havana nightlife of the 1950s to the 1959 Revolution and its iconic leaders, to everyday life in contemporary Cuba, this exhibition provides a multifaceted portrait of the country, exemplifying the richness of Cuban culture, the strength of its people, and the complexity of its political history. As diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States are being restored, &iexc...

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Sketch from live models dressed in streetwear and sneakers from local brands and inspired by the exhibition The Rise of Sneaker Culture while having a drink and listening to music. Led by Liner Notes duo artist Nathan Sensel and DJ Sintalentos (Dan Nishimoto). Location:  Brooklyn Museum, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor.

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Jo Ractliffe's Photographs of Angola and South Africa - Throughout her career, leading South African photographer Jo Ractliffe (born 1961) has directed her camera to landscapes to explore their hidden significance. Through her photographs, she addresses themes of displacement, conflict, history, memory, and erasure. This exhibition will present twenty-three selected works from three recent photogr...

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Exhibit features new work by Maria Taniguchi, Martha Atienza, Victor Balanon, and Mariano Montelibano, selected by Joselina Cruz. The practice of video art in the Philippines employs a rich, contemporary brand of localism, one marked by extravagant imagery filtered through a twenty-first-century sensibility. The artists seen here investigate the truthfulness of the images they produce or...

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In and Out of the Studio - This exhibition will present one hundred years of portrait photography in West Africa through nearly eighty photographs taken between the 1870s and the 1970s. These works, many of which are being shown for the first time.  The installation seeks to expand our understanding of West African portrait photography by rendering the broad variety of these practices and aesthet...

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September 11, 2015 - August 21, 2016 - The inaugural exhibition explores the many ways that human forms can take. Moving into the sculptural abstract, Fluidity in Form is about the less representational, a visit to the compositions that lean further toward the arena of the imagination.  Whether geometric with hard-lined edges or flowing with organic facility. 

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September 15, 2015 - September 25, 2016 -  The exhibition features four works by Connecticut sculptor Drew Klotz. Growing up in an artist setting, Drew naturally gravitated towards kinetic sculpture.  A graduate from Cooper Union in NYC his career has led him to create various different approaches to kinetics, from TV props to flying machines to his indoor inventions to outdoor wind...

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