Oct. 4, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen 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’ Library — one of the first public circulating libraries in New York City. In 1843, the library merged with…
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History in the making: The Brooklyn Museum to mark bicentennial milestone with spectacular year-long celebration
Feb. 9, 2024 By Ximena Del Cerro
The Brooklyn Museum turns 200 this fall — and organizers are preparing for a larger-than-life celebration set to last an entire year.
The Brooklyn Museum to open new Education Center with ‘revamped and renewed’ classes, programs, and exhibits
Jan. 24, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
For nearly 200 years, The Brooklyn Museum has been dedicated to educating and engaging its patrons through art.
Artist shares family’s struggle against colonialism in ‘Here the Earth Grows Gold’ at the Brooklyn Museum
Dec. 12, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro Multimedia artist Suneil Sanzgiri has a message to share from a very personal perspective — colonialism isn’t over, and it’s happening all over the world – just like it happened to his family back in the 60s in Gao, India. His latest body of work, “Here The Earth Grows Gold,” exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, touches on anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the identities that are created from displacement. Sanzgiri’s work is a testament to his family’s legacy of resistance in Goa, an area that was under Portuguese occupation for over 450 years until its…
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