Stumblday's 12 hand-checked picks for Aug 28–30: gallery shows and museum exhibitions across Brooklyn this weekend.
12 picks · checked Aug 26
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, 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 Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJoe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Rubin's Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room now lives at the Brooklyn Museum, a dense, incense-scented room of sculpture and painting.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynJoe Mabel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Rubin's Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room now lives at the Brooklyn Museum, a dense, incense-scented room of sculpture and painting.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynLast chance: the Brooklyn Museum's bicentennial survey of 200 years of collecting — with KAWS, Duke Riley and Tourmaline — closes Sunday after an extended run.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynLast chance: the Brooklyn Museum's bicentennial survey of 200 years of collecting — with KAWS, Duke Riley and Tourmaline — closes Sunday after an extended run.
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.
Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park, Prospect Park, BrooklynProspect Park Alliance and the Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute trace how Brooklyn's own congresswoman broke Washington open — free.
Lefferts Historic House, Prospect Park, Prospect Park, BrooklynProspect Park Alliance and the Shirley Chisholm Cultural Institute trace how Brooklyn's own congresswoman broke Washington open — free.
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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.
A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, BrooklynTwo thrift-store typewriters, five years of typing patterns instead of words and the sewn-page quilts that came out of it. Free.
A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, BrooklynTwo thrift-store typewriters, five years of typing patterns instead of words and the sewn-page quilts that came out of it. Free.
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.
A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, BrooklynThe childhood loop potholder becomes a five-chapter installation: vintage loom boxes, 24 woven designs and a straight-faced art history.
A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, BrooklynThe childhood loop potholder becomes a five-chapter installation: vintage loom boxes, 24 woven designs and a straight-faced art history.
A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, BrooklynEmbroidered sea charts hung so you can see both sides at once — Susanne Kessler stitches the ocean's routes into cloth. Free in DUMBO.
A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, BrooklynEmbroidered sea charts hung so you can see both sides at once — Susanne Kessler stitches the ocean's routes into cloth. Free in DUMBO.
Art Cake, Sunset Park, BrooklynSandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose from Montreal, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsColumbia's MFA cohort takes over Art Cake's Sunset Park ground floor — a free warehouse-scale look at names before they reach Chelsea.
Art Cake, Sunset Park, BrooklynSandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose from Montreal, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsColumbia's MFA cohort takes over Art Cake's Sunset Park ground floor — a free warehouse-scale look at names before they reach Chelsea.
This list covers the weekend of Aug 28–30, 2026, and it refreshes automatically every week.
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