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Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best art & exhibitions in brooklyn in New York City on Columbus Day Monday, Oct 12: 17 picks, refreshed weekly.
17 picks · checked Sep 28
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn140-plus couture pieces worn by Beyoncé, Björk and Lady Gaga fill Iris van Herpen's North American debut at the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn140-plus couture pieces worn by Beyoncé, Björk and Lady Gaga fill Iris van Herpen's North American debut at the Brooklyn Museum.
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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.
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Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynPaul Cézanne · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsMore than 50 works by Cézanne, Modigliani, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Soutine, a landmark Pearlman gift, now at the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynPaul Cézanne · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsMore than 50 works by Cézanne, Modigliani, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Soutine, a landmark Pearlman gift, now at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynFifty-three carved cottonwood kachina dolls lead 120-plus works in the first show told from Hopi women's perspective, at the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynFifty-three carved cottonwood kachina dolls lead 120-plus works in the first show told from Hopi women's perspective, at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynCommunedp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSleeping octopuses shift colour at room scale in Tuomas A. Laitinen's immersive video, made with an Okinawa neuroscience lab, in Red Hook.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynCommunedp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSleeping octopuses shift colour at room scale in Tuomas A. Laitinen's immersive video, made with an Okinawa neuroscience lab, in Red Hook.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Heights / Crown Heights, BrooklynOlalekan Jeyifous and AD—WO place glass serpents, soil tiles and wind-played cowrie strands in BBG's woodland — four installations in their final weeks.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Heights / Crown Heights, BrooklynOlalekan Jeyifous and AD—WO place glass serpents, soil tiles and wind-played cowrie strands in BBG's woodland — four installations in their final weeks.
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Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park, BrooklynA free Prospect Park exhibit honors Shirley Chisholm through seven life lessons, Al Johnson portraits and rare campaign memorabilia.
Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park, BrooklynA free Prospect Park exhibit honors Shirley Chisholm through seven life lessons, Al Johnson portraits and rare campaign memorabilia.
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Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJoe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA lamplit Tibetan Buddhist shrine of 100-plus thangkas, sculptures and ritual objects, with monks' chanted prayers, inside the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJoe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA lamplit Tibetan Buddhist shrine of 100-plus thangkas, sculptures and ritual objects, with monks' chanted prayers, inside the Brooklyn Museum.
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Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynKing of Hearts · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA nail-pierced Tuskegee Airman by Michael Richards, who died in his World Trade Center studio, anchors a new Brooklyn Museum spotlight.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynKing of Hearts · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA nail-pierced Tuskegee Airman by Michael Richards, who died in his World Trade Center studio, anchors a new Brooklyn Museum spotlight.
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Waterfront Museum (Lehigh Valley Barge No. 79), Red Hook, BrooklynPaintings on boat sails about divorce and moving forward hang inside a 1914 wooden cargo barge docked at Red Hook's Pier 44.
Waterfront Museum (Lehigh Valley Barge No. 79), Red Hook, BrooklynPaintings on boat sails about divorce and moving forward hang inside a 1914 wooden cargo barge docked at Red Hook's Pier 44.
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Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA 12-foot conveyor belt carries the art to you: Finnegan Shannon's touchable, sit-down installation rethinks access at Pioneer Works in Red Hook.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA 12-foot conveyor belt carries the art to you: Finnegan Shannon's touchable, sit-down installation rethinks access at Pioneer Works in Red Hook.
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Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThomas Paine's Common Sense and The American Crisis meet Kara Walker, Hank Willis Thomas and Charles Gaines in a Brooklyn Museum show.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThomas Paine's Common Sense and The American Crisis meet Kara Walker, Hank Willis Thomas and Charles Gaines in a Brooklyn Museum show.
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Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynFrom a Delaware bandolier bag to Duke Riley and Rashid Johnson, the Brooklyn Museum's 200th-birthday show celebrates art made in the borough.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynFrom a Delaware bandolier bag to Duke Riley and Rashid Johnson, the Brooklyn Museum's 200th-birthday show celebrates art made in the borough.
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Smack Mellon, DUMBO, BrooklynPatty Chang, Pat Oleszko and 13 more artists probe labor, from robotic to domestic, in Smack Mellon's 30th-anniversary show in DUMBO.
Smack Mellon, DUMBO, BrooklynPatty Chang, Pat Oleszko and 13 more artists probe labor, from robotic to domestic, in Smack Mellon's 30th-anniversary show in DUMBO.
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Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsPhytoplankton, algal blooms and bioluminescence become an interactive spirit-world passage in LaJuné McMillian's Pioneer Works show.
Pioneer Works, Red Hook, BrooklynTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsPhytoplankton, algal blooms and bioluminescence become an interactive spirit-world passage in LaJuné McMillian's Pioneer Works show.
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Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJohn Lewis's 1998 impeachment-debate speech, gavel and applause become an immersive sound room by Donald Moffett at the Brooklyn Museum.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJohn Lewis's 1998 impeachment-debate speech, gavel and applause become an immersive sound room by Donald Moffett at the Brooklyn Museum.
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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.
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