#BkMTalks

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For the finale of Thierry Mugler’s 10th anniversary collection in March 1984, Pat Cleveland descended from the ceiling as the Madonna in this luminescent, layered chiffon gown. Oh, and she happened to be four months pregnant at the time, with her son Noel!

On February 23, Cleveland will join Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture, at the Brooklyn Museum for a behind-the-scenes conversation into the intricacies and joys of working with the perfectionist Thierry Mugler.

“[What] hypnotic powers that Thierry Mugler had.  His vision was so intense and so outrageous and so worthwhile,” said Cleveland. “I always felt like I was making history when I did his shows because he is one of the most fabulous and creative showmen, ever.”

Don’t miss this special evening of #BkMTalks and after-hours access to #Couturissime. #ThierryMuglerBkM 

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📷 Pat Cleveland in Thierry Mugler for the finale of the tenth anniversary of the Mugler label in Paris, 1984. Prêt-à-porter Fall/Winter 1984–85 collection (“Hiver des anges — 10 ans” / “Winter of Angels – 10th Anniversary). Silk chiffon caped gown adorned with crystals. (Photo: Guy Marineau/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images) → Installation view, Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, on view November 18, 2022 - May 7, 2023. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez)

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👗#ArtIsAWeapon #NewExhibit "Africa Fashion" opens at @brooklynmuseum this weekend with a talk tonight, June 22, 7PM featuring @kehindewiley & @renoflife.

Reposted from @brooklynmuseum: Soon, you’ll be able to see for yourself the multidimensional facets of fashion, creativity, and culture on display in this exhibition which features work by mid-twentieth-century designers as well as works by a new generation of designers, collectives, and fashion photographers working in Africa today.

Share in the celebration of opening weekend with Reni Folawiyo (@renoflife), Kehinde Wiley (@kehindewiley), and Lola Ogunnaike (@lolaogunnaike) who will lead us through a conversation on Africa’s Influence during Brooklyn Talks on June 22 at 7 pm. Attendees will have after-hours access to the exhibition.

Get your tickets to #AfricaFashionBkM and #BkMTalks at the link in our bio!

Africa Fashion is created by the V&A (@vamuseum)—touring the world. The lead sponsor is Bank of America (@bankofamerica) with major support provided by ALÁRA (@alaralagos). Special thanks to OkayAfrica / Okayplayer (@okayafrica) and Nataal (@nataalmedia), media sponsors for this exhibition.

Our presentation is organized by Ernestine White-Mifetu (@ernestinewhitemifetu), Sills Foundation Curator of African Art, and Annissa Malvoisin (@unexfemmenoire), Bard Graduate Center / Brooklyn Museum Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts of Africa, with Catherine Futter, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Decorative Arts, Matthew Yokobosky (@matthew_yokobosky), Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture, and Rhea Stark, Curatorial Assistant, Arts of Africa, Asia, and the Islamic World, Brooklyn Museum.

#BrooklynMuseum #AfricaFashion #AfricanFashion #museum #BlackGirlArtGeeks

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Wrap yourself in the breathtaking landscapes and rhythms of northern Florida.

Allison Janae Hamilton’s “A House Called Florida” is a three-channel film installation depicting the artist’s home region. In it, the artist references French Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar’s 1946 short story “Casa Tomada” (“House Taken Over”) about ghosts that slowly take over a home and eventually push out its owners, room by room. Hamilton’s film pays tribute to the Black Floridians who remained in the Red Hills and Forgotten Coast regions, despite the racial violence and environmental precariousness they faced throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Delve deeper into the Great Migration and its complex impact with three of the artists featured in the exhibition—Akea Brionne, Leslie Hewitt, and Robert Pruitt— during Brooklyn Talks on May 18. Get your ticket, which includes after-hours access to #GreatMigrationBkM, at the link below.

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📷 Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez) → Photo by Frankie Alduino

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Allow us to help you come out of hibernation. 🌱

Save your spot for these upcoming events (and more). 

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Only two weeks ‘til Africa Fashion! 

Soon, you’ll be able to see for yourself the multidimensional facets of fashion, creativity, and culture on display in this exhibition which features work by mid-twentieth-century designers as well as works by a new generation of designers, collectives, and fashion photographers working in Africa today.

Share in the celebration of opening weekend with Reni Folawiyo, Kehinde Wiley, and Lola Ogunnaike who will lead us through a conversation on Africa’s Influence during Brooklyn Talks on June 22 at 7 pm. Attendees will have after-hours access to the exhibition.

Get your tickets to #AfricaFashionBkM and #BkMTalks:

🎟 https://bit.ly/3Chk6hZ

Africa Fashion is created by the V&A—touring the world. The lead sponsor is Bank of America with major support provided by ALÁRA. Special thanks to OkayAfrica / Okayplayer and Nataal, media sponsors for this exhibition.

Our presentation is organized by Ernestine White-Mifetu, Sills Foundation Curator of African Art, and Annissa Malvoisin, Bard Graduate Center / Brooklyn Museum Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts of Africa, with Catherine Futter, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Decorative Arts, Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture, and Rhea Stark, Curatorial Assistant, Arts of Africa, Asia, and the Islamic World, Brooklyn Museum.

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Have you heard of climate grief? It’s a term coined to describe that sense of mourning or concern that may wash over you regarding the ecological crisis. 

On November 3 at 7 pm, we’re hosting a conversation between artists and activists. This instance of Brooklyn Talks will cover strategies for addressing climate change and advancing environmental justice across art, social practice, policy, and grassroots organizing with:

🌊 Duke Riley, the artist behind “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash” 🌳 Kizzy Charles-Guzman of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice 🍂 Larissa Belcic of Nocturnal Medicine 🌎 Michelle Shofet of Nocturnal Medicine 🌱 Ajay Singh Chaudhary of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Get your ticket to #BkMTalks or learn more about #DukeRileyBkM: https://bit.ly/3TFGkAX

📷 Duke Riley (American, born 1972). Mother Ocean, 2020. Salvaged, painted plastic. Courtesy of the artist. © Duke Riley. (Photo: Duke Riley Studio)

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Now Open… Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon. 

Chinese zodiac signs, Taoist symbols, cowboy hats, and American flags are amongst some of the artist’s “Chinese cowboy” iconography that you’ll find in the exhibition. Each of which aids in highlighting the limitations of the term “Asian American.”

Throughout his paintings, yi Hou depicts subjects who, like him, are part of creative, queer, Asian, and diasporic communities. This particular painting, entitled “birds of a feather flock together, aka: A New Family Portrait,” inspired the 50-square-foot mural on the façade of UOVO’s facility in Bushwick. Two of the subjects in this work—Oscar yi Hou and Amanda Ba—along with the artist Sasha Gordon, will celebrate the opening of this exhibition through a conversation moderated by curator Eugenie Tsai on October 20 at 7 pm to discuss their creative relationships and their varied approaches to figuration.

Get your tickets to #BkMTalks and learn more about #OscaryiHouBkM: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI

📷 Oscar yi Hou (born Liverpool, UK, 1998). birds of a feather flock together, aka: A New Family Portrait, 2020. Oil on canvas, 61 × 43 in. (154.9 × 109.2 cm). Collection of Joe Mantello and Paul Marlow. © Oscar yi Hou. (Photo: Oscar yi Hou, courtesy of Carl Freedman Gallery) → Mike Vitelli, BFA.com

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How can we visualize the extraordinary loss of life caused by COVID-19?

Media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, whose work is on view in our special exhibition “A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial,” is joined by architect Sekou Cooke and Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab, to discuss the ways in which art and design facilitate spaces for mourning and cultural trauma.

Join us for #BkMTalks on May 26 at 7 pm. ASL interpretation will be provided. Event information and tickets are available here: https://bit.ly/3MHyqDF

📷 Installation view, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial, Brooklyn Museum, October 29, 2021 - June 26, 2022. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado)

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This Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm, we will be joined by Guadalupe Maravilla, Lady Quesa, and Pastor Juan Carlos Ruiz for an exciting #BkMTalks on art, healing, and immigrant communities.

🗣️ Guadalupe Maravilla, artist dedicated to healing through sculpture, drawing, painting, choreography, sound, and performance whose work is currently on view in “Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven”

✨ Lady Quesa, staple of the Brooklyn drag scene, regularly hosts the Yas Mama party at C’mon Everybody, and is supervisor of arts programming at youth development organization The Door

⛪ Juan Carlos Ruiz, pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Bay Ridge and, during the pandemic, collaborated frequently with Maravilla on mutual aid efforts including food distribution and sound baths

This program will include ASL and Spanish interpretation. Tickets are $16 ($14 for Members) and include after-hours access to #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM.

Learn more about the event and get your ticket.

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Nona Faustine’s photographs excavate and respond to forgotten, erased, and unacknowledged histories of systemic racism in the United States. Documenting herself in places across New York where history becomes tangible while donning a pair of white high-heeled shoes, Faustine acts as a conduit or receptor, in solidarity with people whose names and memories have been lost but are embedded in the land.

Next Friday at 7 pm, Faustine's new book White Shoes is the center of conversation at #BkMTalks alongside collaborators Jessica Lanay, Pamela Sneed, and Seph Rodney. Be a part of the conversation – get your ticket.

Sponsored by Bank of America

📷: Nona Faustine, ‘She was a culmination of all things in  heaven and earth, how many times had she been here  before, Seneca Village, Central Park, NYC, 2021’ from  White Shoes (MACK, 2021). Courtesy the artist and  MACK. ➡ Nona Faustine, ‘Benevolent spirits, tracing steps free  bare feet from this world to the other’, 2021, from White  Shoes (MACK, 2021). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.

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Quality exhibitions aren’t the only things we are curating this fall. Here’s a look at some of the programs—like #BkMReads, #VirgilAblohBkM SOCIAL SCULPTURE, and #BkMTalks—taking place in October.

See the full calendar as well as what we have on view at the link below!

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1 million. To memorialize the number of known deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, while the pandemic persists, feels impossible.

Tonight at 7 pm, we’ll discuss Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s ephemeral “anti-monument” that creates digital and physical spaces dedicated to mourning through “A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial.” Joined by Sekou Cooke and Paul Farber, our guests for the latest #BkMTalks will explore the demands of commemorating cultural trauma through public art.

Event information and tickets are available for $16 ($14 for Members) at the link below. ASL interpretation will be provided. ⁠ 🎟 https://bit.ly/3Kw77KQ ⁠ Presented by Bank of America

📷 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born Mexico City, 1967). Documentation of memorial for Manuel Felguérez Barra in A Crack in the Hourglass, 2020–ongoing. Sand, glass, robotic platform, cameras, computers, OpenFrameworks software, lights, anodized aluminum base, 3-D–printed polymer head, electronic circuit, tubes, funnels, plastic valves, website. Courtesy of Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. © Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)

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Conversation on the climate crisis, salsa dancing and live music, a day of intergenerational inspiration with The Meteor, and a celebration of Virgil Abloh’s approach to architecture in the SOCIAL SCULPTURE. 

These are just some of the events coming up in November at the Museum. RSVP or get tickets: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI

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Next week, on November 3, #BkMTalks will focus on strategies for addressing climate change and advancing environmental justice across art, social practice, policy, and grassroots organizing. Our guests will include:

🌊 @dukerileystudio 🌳 Kizzy Charles-Guzman 🍂 @nocturnalmedicine’s Larissa Belicic and Michelle Shofet 🌎 @ajaysinghchaudhary

Get your ticket: https://bit.ly/3TFGkAX

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Throughout "White Shoes", a new collection of self-portraits, Nona Faustine responds to a history of depiction of Black people that is shaped by subjugation, phrenology, and pseudo-science.

Join the author in conversation with three of the book's contributors for #BkMTalks on February 11 at 7 pm. Tickets are $16 ($14 for Members) and include after-hours access to The Slipstream: Reflection, Resistance, and Resilience in the Art of Our Time.

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Nona Faustine, ‘Dorothy Angola, Stay Free, In Land  Of The Blacks’, Minetta Lane, Village, NYC, 2021, from  White Shoes (MACK, 2021). Courtesy the artist and  MACK.

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#BkMTalks is back on May 26 at 7 pm. We’re happy to be hosting a conversation on the role that public art plays in remembrance, healing, and community inspired by “Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial” with our guests: ⁠ ⁠ ⏳ Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: media artist working at the intersection of architecture and performance art⁠ ⁠ 💡 Sekou Cooke: architect, researcher, and founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective⁠ ⁠ 🏛️ Paul Farber: director of Monument Lab, which facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments⁠ ⁠ Event information and tickets are available for $16 ($14 for Members). ASL interpretation will be provided. ⁠

🔗 https://bit.ly/3Kw77KQ ⁠ Presented by Bank of America