#ArtOnTheStoop

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Shift perspectives, think differently, look at art through the artist’s eye.   

Since 1980, Jamel Shabazz has created enduring images of style, community, and joy throughout the five boroughs, particularly Brooklyn. Take a close look at his new installation Faces and Places, 1980–2023 on July 27 from 7-8 pm. This intimate outdoor conversation between the artist and curator Drew Sawyer will be followed by a signing of the limited-edition exhibition catalogue. 

Tickets are $25 ($20 for Members).

🎟️ https://bit.ly/3JLBPSI

📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). The Future of Tomorrow, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 1980. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Friends, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1997. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Urban Rock, East Village, Manhattan, 2002. © Jamel Shabazz

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Get ready to double down on your love for Brooklyn and the people who give this borough its heart. 

Beginning on June 2, the work of Brooklyn-born photographer, Jamel Shabazz, will line our outdoor plaza just in time for summer. The installation includes hundreds of Shabazz’s portraits from the last 40 years showcasing the vibrant people and places of our beloved Brooklyn and beyond. 

Meet us on the stoop and learn more about this installation: https://bit.ly/JamelShabazzBkM

📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). The Art of Love, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1988. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Pages from the photo album Frozen Moments in Time: 1990–2010. © Jamel Shabazz

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Summer days spent in the city may very well lead you to one of our borough’s great green spaces… Prospect Park.

“Spending time in the park afforded me a temporary escape from the fast pace of city life,” says Jamel Shabazz. “Photographing in [Prospect Park and Central Park] also provided me with the opportunity to create various distinguished bodies of work, from environmental portraits, candid images of families, and endless celebrations that took place on any given day.”

Add our stoop to your route to or from the park to see portraits like these as part of Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023. 

📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Father & Son, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2008. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). A Reflection of Love, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 2000. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). A Frozen Moment in Time, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, circa 2005. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Best Friends, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, circa 1997. © Jamel Shabazz

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How’s this for heartwarming? ❤️

From subway smiles to posing in the park, here are a host of portraits captured by Jamel Shabazz of fathers and their kids from around our beloved city.

Sending love to all of you Dads! 

📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Father & Son, New York City, 1988. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Father and Seeds, Harlem, Circa 2000. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Riding High, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1996. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). First Born, Red Hook, Brooklyn, 1982. © Jamel Shabazz

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Now Open… Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023. 📸

Born in Brooklyn, Shabazz’s interest in photography sparked at age 15. His earliest influences include his family’s photo albums, which have been passed down and expanded over generations. As a result, Shabazz has collated his own photographs into albums over the years. While traversing the city, he would often show them to potential collaborators as examples of his past work and of the poses of others. Like his family’s albums, they also serve as archives of heritage and affirmation. Along with individual portraits, Faces and Places features reproductions of several pages from these albums, focusing on Shabazz’s extensive work in New York City parks over the past forty years.

See Shabazz’s work as part of #ArtOnTheStoop all summer long.

📷 Artist Jamel Shabazz, 06/05/2023. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez) → Installation view, Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980-2023, on view June 02, 2023 - September 01, 2023. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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I spy with my little eye… a friend, a neighbor, a family member… wait, is that me?

Visit #ArtOnTheStoop to see Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023, and you might just see a familiar face. Use #JamelShabazzBkM to help us identify you or people you know pictured in the installation. We can’t wait to see who you find! 

📷 (on Instagram): @pwcollectionsllc, @plantseedsnow, @cukimberdesigns, @meg4miles, @shibaclan

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We can't wait for you to see Mona Chalabi’s The Gray-Green Divide. Join Mona during the opening weekend on May 21 at 2 pm, as she hosts a conversation about her outdoor installation, which explores environmental justice and climate change through data patterns linking income, trees, and heat across Brooklyn.⁠ ⁠ The program begins with an outdoor artist talk on the plaza steps and continues with an exploratory walk through the neighborhood led by Antonia Estela Pérez—artist, herbalist and co-founder of Herban Cura. ⁠ Tickets are $25 ($20 for Members) and include general admission to the Museum. For access needs, please email access@brooklynmuseum.org.⁠

🎟 https://bit.ly/3FMckh1  

✏️+ 📷 Mona Chalabi

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When it comes to living in New York City, there are many hard-and-fast truths. Stoop season is sacred. Our parks are oases capable of transporting us away from trash-piled streets and sidewalks. And New Yorkers have unequal access to green space.⁠ ⁠ Mona Chalabi, artist and data journalist, intertwines these truths in an upcoming installation being activated on our Plaza beginning May 6, weather permitting. Designed to deepen our appreciation for trees, “Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide” explores the connections between environmental justice and climate change, exposing their unequal impact on communities throughout Brooklyn. Known to remove air pollution, reduce the amount of energy needed by residential buildings, and provide shelter for wildlife, the shade and lower temperatures created by trees have important roles in our neighborhoods. Through her clever, colorful illustration style, Mona visualizes the biodiversity of NYC and the correlations between tree density, income levels, and heat across the city.⁠ ⁠ Learn more about Mona, this site-specific installation, and her inspiration: https://bit.ly/3jSAYlU 

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Nothing beats New York in the fall. Even with today being the Autumn Equinox and temperatures cooling down, on our stoop you’ll feel less heat than you would just ten blocks east or west because the surrounding trees are lowering the temperature. 

We spoke with Mona Chalabi about her ambitions for “The Gray-Green Divide” and transforming data from NYC Parks and Recreation into colorful, illustrative visualizations that engage us in confronting truths about inequities in our borough and about who has access to green space.

Visit Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide through the fall.

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As one 5-year-old visitor put it, “Trees are helpers.” 🌳

If you’re spending your long weekend in Brooklyn, don’t miss Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide, on view through September. It’ll deepen your appreciation for trees and their unequal impact on our Brooklyn community.

📷 @simba_tnguyen, @iam_chudjane, @sofiamalinn, @vibesbyshani, @sammymiximin, @eternally.nomadic, @stylebyaarika

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Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide is now open, making our stoop on Eastern Parkway set for summertime. 🌳🌤

Through playful illustrations of New York City’s one hundred most common trees, based on data from NYC Parks, Mona motivates us to reflect on the hard truths about the inequities of our borough’s green spaces, laying bare the links among incomes, trees, and heat.

Come enjoy this site-specific installation and learn more about Mona’s inspiration: https://bit.ly/3jSAYlU

📷 Installation view, Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide, Brooklyn Museum, June 1 2022. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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Sun’s out, tongues out! Even our furry friends in Brooklyn are enjoying summer on the Plaza.

We love any opportunity to dedicate #MyBkM to our four-legged neighbors.

📷 @walterthebkrescuedog, @leon.the.pupper, @misothemeatball, @mangozelayadavis, @benitoelschnau, @ogsaintyboy, @parker.barquero

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Alright, Brooklyn. We’ve learned from Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide just how vital our city’s trees are in cleaning our air and cooling our neighborhood. Now we have a chance to care for and celebrate the NYC urban forest for the inaugural #CityofForestDay2022 on October 15 

All five boroughs are coming together through a series of events including educational tours, restoration projects, tree care, and more. Learn what events are taking place near you.

🔗 https://forestforall.nyc/city-of-forest-day/

Presented by Forest for All NYC, The Nature Conservancy, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Trees New York, Madison Square Park Conservancy, and Prospect Park Alliance.

🎨 Asher B. Durand (American, 1796-1886). Landscape (Birch and Oaks), ca. 1855-1857. Oil on canvas, 23 15/16 x 17 7/8 in. (60.8 x 45.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Schieren, 15.326 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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What does climate justice look like? During our Virtual Teacher Program on October 18 at 4:30 pm, we’ll explore how data visualization can be leveraged to engage students with climate activism in their communities with special guests:

🌳 Mona Chalabi: data journalist and artist of the special exhibition Mona Chalabi: The Gray-Green Divide 📊 Tim Swinehart: high school teacher and coeditor of A People’s Curriculum for the Earth

This program is free, we just ask that you RSVP.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3Tm3H2j

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This Saturday at 10 am on the Plaza steps will be a special, high-energy edition of Yoga on the Stoop, led by special guest Donovan McGrath of Amplified Yoga and joined by DJ Casey Spooner.

Accompanied by deep house beats, McGrath uses movement, breath, mantra, and meditation to fuel this high-energy, therapeutic, and celebratory yoga experience.

Tickets are $16 ($10 for Members) and include Museum general admission—available at the link in our bio. Tickets including admission to #VirgilAblohBkM are $25 (Members, reserve your free tickets to Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” separately).⁠

🎟 https://bit.ly/3hUvFBC

Supported by Adidas | Photo by Kolin Mendez

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Can we count you in? We’re hosting two mid-morning, gentle flow yoga classes next month on our stoop.

October 8 at 10 am with Quazzy October 15 at 10 am with Beth

All levels are welcome, we just ask that you bring your own mat.⁠ Tickets are $16 ($10 for Members) and include Museum general admission. Tickets including admission to #VirgilAblohBkM are $25 (Members, reserve your free tickets to Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” separately).⁠

🎟 https://bit.ly/3hUvFBC

Supported by Adidas | 📷 Kolin Mendez