The Brooklyn Museum is celebrating its 200th birthday by turning some traditions upside-down. What is now one of Brooklyn’s cultural cornerstones started out in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices’ ...

Workers and union members rally against layoffs at the Brooklyn Museum on Thursday, March 6. (all photos Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Over 150 people rallied outside the Brooklyn ...

Brooklyn Museum kicks off its bicentennial celebration, programming and exhibitions on Friday with “Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art” and “The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition.” The rest of the ...

For its bicentennial year, the museum is rolling out a slate of events and exhibitions this fall — including an open call for local artists. By Ted Loos Later in life, the great poet Walt Whitman ...

When the Brooklyn Museum decided to showcase the breadth of creativity across the borough, it didn’t land on an exhibition of 30 or 80 artists, not even 150 artists. Rather, “The Brooklyn Artists ...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION are on display at The Brooklyn Museum with the addition of 330 new artworks this year. Over 100 of these acquisitions are gifts from the ...

Over the past 200 years, a museum in New York has quietly grown to become one of the city’s most esteemed cultural institutions. You might think I’m talking about the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the ...

The Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest museums in the U.S., is celebrating its 200th anniversary and its legacy as a cultural organization that has continually evolved and innovated since ...

Late last year, the Brooklyn Museum announced it had acquired more than 330 artworks in 2024—an impressive figure for any institution and ever more so given the intense competition for donations in ...

The Brooklyn Museum turns 200 this fall — and organizers are preparing for a larger-than-life celebration set to last an entire year. The celebration will kick off in October and will include the ...

For its 200th anniversary this year, the Brooklyn Museum got itself a new logo, and it’s inspired by the museum’s neoclassical architecture. “One of the main points of inspiration for the new identity ...