Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best art in Brooklyn the weekend of Oct 2–4, 2026: 23 picks, refreshed weekly.
23 picks · checked Sep 7
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe Brooklyn Museum opens its survey of sculptor Michael Richards — killed in his World Trade Center studio on 9/11 — deliberately on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe Brooklyn Museum opens its survey of sculptor Michael Richards — killed in his World Trade Center studio on 9/11 — deliberately on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynMore than 140 Iris van Herpen haute couture pieces fill the Brooklyn Museum, shown beside scientific artifacts and natural-history specimens.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynMore than 140 Iris van Herpen haute couture pieces fill the Brooklyn Museum, shown beside scientific artifacts and natural-history specimens.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Crown Heights, BrooklynBBG rebuilds the winning stoops of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest, plus portraits of the neighbours who planted them.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Crown Heights, BrooklynBBG rebuilds the winning stoops of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest, plus portraits of the neighbours who planted them.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJim.henderson · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsMore than 600 original manga drawings, including ONE PIECE, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Inuyasha, in their East Coast debut.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJim.henderson · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsMore than 600 original manga drawings, including ONE PIECE, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Inuyasha, in their East Coast debut.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynPaul Cézanne · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsOver 50 modern European masterworks by Cezanne, Modigliani, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Soutine, newly given to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynPaul Cézanne · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsOver 50 modern European masterworks by Cezanne, Modigliani, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Soutine, newly given to Brooklyn.
Industry City, Sunset Park, BrooklynSake Day Brooklyn has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Industry City, Sunset Park, BrooklynSake Day Brooklyn has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynTuomas A. Laitinen wraps you in 8K footage of sleeping octopuses, with blown-glass sculptures in water tanks arranged by an ikebana master.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynTuomas A. Laitinen wraps you in 8K footage of sleeping octopuses, with blown-glass sculptures in water tanks arranged by an ikebana master.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynLaJune McMillian turns research on phytoplankton and bioluminescence into a floor-to-ceiling interactive video world you walk into.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynLaJune McMillian turns research on phytoplankton and bioluminescence into a floor-to-ceiling interactive video world you walk into.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynFinnegan Shannon and collaborators build a show around access and interdependence inside Red Hook's three-storey former ironworks.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynFinnegan Shannon and collaborators build a show around access and interdependence inside Red Hook's three-storey former ironworks.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynGreen-Wood’s Greatest Hits has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynGreen-Wood’s Greatest Hits has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynMeet Your Green Neighbors has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynMeet Your Green Neighbors has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynBirding In Peace has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynBirding In Peace has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynGreen-Wood After Hours has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynGreen-Wood After Hours has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynDinosaurs in Action: Green-Wood’s Birds of Prey has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynDinosaurs in Action: Green-Wood’s Birds of Prey has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynStranger Than Fiction Trolley Tour has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynStranger Than Fiction Trolley Tour has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Industry City, Sunset Park, BrooklynThe Night Shift Comedy Show has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Industry City, Sunset Park, BrooklynThe Night Shift Comedy Show has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, BrooklynPioneer Works' fall shows pair LaJuné McMillian's bioluminescent ocean-research installation with Finnegan Shannon's artwork-delivering conveyor belt.
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook, BrooklynPioneer Works' fall shows pair LaJuné McMillian's bioluminescent ocean-research installation with Finnegan Shannon's artwork-delivering conveyor belt.
St. Ann's Warehouse, DUMBO, BrooklynKramer/Fauci has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
St. Ann's Warehouse, DUMBO, BrooklynKramer/Fauci has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynDiscover Green-Wood Trolley Tour has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynDiscover Green-Wood Trolley Tour has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynGrave Beginnings: Walking Green-Wood has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Greenwood Heights, BrooklynGrave Beginnings: Walking Green-Wood has enough weekend energy to earn a spot on the board.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Heights, BrooklynMultisensory installations by the Art x Environment Fellows sit among the plantings at Brooklyn Botanic Garden through late October.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Heights, BrooklynMultisensory installations by the Art x Environment Fellows sit among the plantings at Brooklyn Botanic Garden through late October.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe artist and Gran Fury co-founder brings his protest-poster lineage into the Brooklyn Museum for a run stretching into spring.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe artist and Gran Fury co-founder brings his protest-poster lineage into the Brooklyn Museum for a run stretching into spring.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJim.henderson · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsFifty-three carved Hopi kachina dolls among 120-plus works, told for the first time from the perspective of the women who receive them.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJim.henderson · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsFifty-three carved Hopi kachina dolls among 120-plus works, told for the first time from the perspective of the women who receive them.
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