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Anthony Rapp, Maxwell Frost, America Ferrera & More to Join MEET THE MOMENT Summit (Nov 10, 2022)
MAD BALL 2020 Honoring Judy Chicago to Feature Mx Justin Vivian Bond and Rosanne Cash (Sep 30, 2020)
MAD Appoints Elissa Auther as Chief Curator (Sep 4, 2019)
Anthony Rapp, Maxwell Frost, America Ferrera & More to Join MEET THE MOMENT Summit (Nov 10, 2022)
MAD BALL 2020 Honoring Judy Chicago to Feature Mx Justin Vivian Bond and Rosanne Cash (Sep 30, 2020)
MAD Appoints Elissa Auther as Chief Curator (Sep 4, 2019)
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Anthony Rapp, Maxwell Frost, America Ferrera & More to Join MEET THE MOMENT Summit
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 10, 2022
The powerhouse collective of activists, journalists and creators at The Meteor—a media company focused on issues of gender and racial justice— will present Meet the Moment, a powerful day of ideas and inspiration, on Saturday, November 12th at the Brooklyn Museum.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 10, 2022
The powerhouse collective of activists, journalists and creators at The Meteor—a media company focused on issues of gender and racial justice— will present Meet the Moment, a powerful day of ideas and inspiration, on Saturday, November 12th at the Brooklyn Museum.
MAD BALL 2020 Honoring Judy Chicago to Feature Mx Justin Vivian Bond and Rosanne Cash
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 30, 2020
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will hold its annual MAD BALL on October 15th, 2020, a virtual benefit, honoring Judy Chicago for her unparalleled contributions to the fields of art, craft, and design.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 30, 2020
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) will hold its annual MAD BALL on October 15th, 2020, a virtual benefit, honoring Judy Chicago for her unparalleled contributions to the fields of art, craft, and design.
MAD Appoints Elissa Auther as Chief Curator
by Stephi Wild - Sep 4, 2019
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) today announced the appointment of Elissa Auther to the position of Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator, effective immediately. In this role, Auther will collaborate with Nanette L. Laitman Director Chris Scoates to create diverse exhibition programs and collections, foster relationships with artists and designers, and develop forward-looking strategies for engaging a broad audience.
by Stephi Wild - Sep 4, 2019
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) today announced the appointment of Elissa Auther to the position of Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator, effective immediately. In this role, Auther will collaborate with Nanette L. Laitman Director Chris Scoates to create diverse exhibition programs and collections, foster relationships with artists and designers, and develop forward-looking strategies for engaging a broad audience.
AMERICAN MASTERS Presents an 'Artists Flight' of New Documentaries
by TV News Desk - Aug 6, 2018
Uncovering the lives and works of four groundbreaking visual artists, American Masters presents an "Artists Flight" of new documentaries, premiering Fridays, August 31-September 14 on PBS (check local listings). Four films tell the stories of four artists: Eva Hesse, the 1960s art world icon who changed art history and women's place in the picture; New York contemporary art maverick Elizabeth Murray; painter Andrew Wyeth, one of America's most popular, but least understood, artists; and Jean-Michel Basquiat, the New York graffiti artist turned '80s art world rock star who died 30 years ago (August 12, 1988). Each film will be available to stream the following day via pbs.org/americanmasters and PBS apps.
by TV News Desk - Aug 6, 2018
Uncovering the lives and works of four groundbreaking visual artists, American Masters presents an "Artists Flight" of new documentaries, premiering Fridays, August 31-September 14 on PBS (check local listings). Four films tell the stories of four artists: Eva Hesse, the 1960s art world icon who changed art history and women's place in the picture; New York contemporary art maverick Elizabeth Murray; painter Andrew Wyeth, one of America's most popular, but least understood, artists; and Jean-Michel Basquiat, the New York graffiti artist turned '80s art world rock star who died 30 years ago (August 12, 1988). Each film will be available to stream the following day via pbs.org/americanmasters and PBS apps.
2018 New York Artadia Awardees Announced
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2018
Artadia announces the Awardees for the 2018 New York Artadia Awards: Terence Nance and Jessica Vaughn. As the 2018 New York Artadia Awardees, Nance and Vaughn will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds as well as access to the ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards program.
by Stephi Wild - May 11, 2018
Artadia announces the Awardees for the 2018 New York Artadia Awards: Terence Nance and Jessica Vaughn. As the 2018 New York Artadia Awardees, Nance and Vaughn will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds as well as access to the ongoing benefits of the Artadia Awards program.
NYU Tisch, the Brooklyn Museum, and American Opera Projects to Present Feminist Mini-Operas
by A.A. Cristi - May 9, 2018
The Dinner Party Operas, a showcase of eleven original mini-operas inspired by Judy Chicago's iconic feminist installation The Dinner Party, a multi-media work housed in the Brooklyn Museum, will be presented this May in New York City by the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (GMTWP), the Brooklyn Museum, the NYU Tisch Department of Design for Stage & Film and American Opera Projects (AOP). Six of the operas will be performed on Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. at NYU Tisch's GMTWP Black Box Theatre, located in Manhattan at 715 Broadway, between Washington and Waverly places, on the second floor. The remaining five operas will be performed on Sunday, May 27 at 2:00 p.m. at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Each under 15-minutes long, the operas were written and composed by students in the NYU Tisch GMTWP Opera Lab and will be performed by professional opera singers with piano accompaniment. The Dinner Party Operas is free with advance registration (May 23) or museum admission (May 27) and open to the public. To reserve tickets for the May 23 performance at NYU, email tisch.ipa@nyu.edu. Complete info at www.aopopera.org.
by A.A. Cristi - May 9, 2018
The Dinner Party Operas, a showcase of eleven original mini-operas inspired by Judy Chicago's iconic feminist installation The Dinner Party, a multi-media work housed in the Brooklyn Museum, will be presented this May in New York City by the NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (GMTWP), the Brooklyn Museum, the NYU Tisch Department of Design for Stage & Film and American Opera Projects (AOP). Six of the operas will be performed on Wednesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. at NYU Tisch's GMTWP Black Box Theatre, located in Manhattan at 715 Broadway, between Washington and Waverly places, on the second floor. The remaining five operas will be performed on Sunday, May 27 at 2:00 p.m. at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Each under 15-minutes long, the operas were written and composed by students in the NYU Tisch GMTWP Opera Lab and will be performed by professional opera singers with piano accompaniment. The Dinner Party Operas is free with advance registration (May 23) or museum admission (May 27) and open to the public. To reserve tickets for the May 23 performance at NYU, email tisch.ipa@nyu.edu. Complete info at www.aopopera.org.
Pen World Voices Festival 2018 to Convene Writers, Artists, And Thinkers
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 29, 2018
With 60+ Events Across New York City, the United States' Leading International Literary Festival, Curated by Chip Rolley, Turns Its Global Lens on Its Home Country
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 29, 2018
With 60+ Events Across New York City, the United States' Leading International Literary Festival, Curated by Chip Rolley, Turns Its Global Lens on Its Home Country
Anna Deavere Smith To Host New York Live Arts 2018 Live Ideas Gala: Radical Vision
by Stephi Wild - Mar 15, 2018
New York Live Arts 2018 Live Ideas Gala, co-chaired by Slobodan Randjelovi? and Jon Stryker and Ruth and Stephen Hendel and hosted by award-winning performer and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, pays tribute to Live Arts' annual Live Ideas Festival. The Gala will take place at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, New York City on Monday, April 16, starting with a cocktail reception at 6:30pm and followed by the dinner and program at 7:15pm.
by Stephi Wild - Mar 15, 2018
New York Live Arts 2018 Live Ideas Gala, co-chaired by Slobodan Randjelovi? and Jon Stryker and Ruth and Stephen Hendel and hosted by award-winning performer and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, pays tribute to Live Arts' annual Live Ideas Festival. The Gala will take place at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, New York City on Monday, April 16, starting with a cocktail reception at 6:30pm and followed by the dinner and program at 7:15pm.
New York Live Arts presents LIVE IDEAS 2018: RADIAL VISION
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 17, 2018
An annual interdisciplinary humanities festival, Live Ideas is a high point of the New York Live Arts season. This year's festival, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision, presented April 18-22, 2018, at New York Live Arts, will offer five days of activity designed to imagine the future and understand the past of an open and democratic society. Through public forums, performances, readings, and workshops, the festival will offer a forward-looking, critical appraisal of four key democratic institutions: the press, big tech, the criminal justice system, and our electoral process. Bringing together artists, activists, journalists, and scholars, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision is co-curated by culture creator Brian Tate, president of The Tate Group, and presented in partnership with the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College with curatorial input from Roger Berkowitz, the Center's director.
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 17, 2018
An annual interdisciplinary humanities festival, Live Ideas is a high point of the New York Live Arts season. This year's festival, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision, presented April 18-22, 2018, at New York Live Arts, will offer five days of activity designed to imagine the future and understand the past of an open and democratic society. Through public forums, performances, readings, and workshops, the festival will offer a forward-looking, critical appraisal of four key democratic institutions: the press, big tech, the criminal justice system, and our electoral process. Bringing together artists, activists, journalists, and scholars, Live Ideas 2018: Radical Vision is co-curated by culture creator Brian Tate, president of The Tate Group, and presented in partnership with the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College with curatorial input from Roger Berkowitz, the Center's director.
Brooklyn Designs Moves To Brooklyn Museum For Its 15th Edition
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 20, 2017
In anticipation of its most successful edition to date, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that BROOKLYN DESIGNS is moving to the historic Brooklyn Museum. Beginning with a press preview on May 11, Brooklyn's premier design event, presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and co-produced with Novit Communications, will have an exciting new home at the Brooklyn Museum, the borough's encyclopedic institution, from May 12-13, 2018 while kicking off the first weekend of NYCxDESIGN New York City's official celebration of design.
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 20, 2017
In anticipation of its most successful edition to date, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce that BROOKLYN DESIGNS is moving to the historic Brooklyn Museum. Beginning with a press preview on May 11, Brooklyn's premier design event, presented by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and co-produced with Novit Communications, will have an exciting new home at the Brooklyn Museum, the borough's encyclopedic institution, from May 12-13, 2018 while kicking off the first weekend of NYCxDESIGN New York City's official celebration of design.
Photo Flash: Gloria Steinem, Judy Chicago and More Attend Brooklyn Museum's 2017 Yes! Gala
by BWW News Desk - Oct 24, 2017
On Thursday, October 19th, the Brooklyn Museum hosted the Yes! Gala and presented the 2017 Sackler Center First Awards, celebrating the accomplishments of pioneering women who've made an impact on arts, culture, and society. BroadwayWorld has photos from the evening below!
by BWW News Desk - Oct 24, 2017
On Thursday, October 19th, the Brooklyn Museum hosted the Yes! Gala and presented the 2017 Sackler Center First Awards, celebrating the accomplishments of pioneering women who've made an impact on arts, culture, and society. BroadwayWorld has photos from the evening below!
Bouchra Ouizguen's CORBEAUX to Make New York Debut as Part of 2017 Crossing the Line Festival
by BWW News Desk - Sep 30, 2017
As part of the 2017 edition of its celebrated Crossing the Line Festival, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, joins forces with the Brooklyn Museum, Abrons Arts Center, and Movement Research to co-present the New York Premiere of Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen's site-specific Corbeaux (Crows), Today, September 30, and Sunday, October 1, in the Beaux-Arts Court of the Brooklyn Museum
by BWW News Desk - Sep 30, 2017
As part of the 2017 edition of its celebrated Crossing the Line Festival, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, joins forces with the Brooklyn Museum, Abrons Arts Center, and Movement Research to co-present the New York Premiere of Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen's site-specific Corbeaux (Crows), Today, September 30, and Sunday, October 1, in the Beaux-Arts Court of the Brooklyn Museum
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Launches 2017 Season
by BWW News Desk - Sep 15, 2017
Through incisive considerations of site, history, biography, and portraiture, Beverly Buchanan (1940 2015) produced landmark bodies of work, including cast concrete and mixed-media sculptures, drawings and books, and evocative paintings and photographs. 'Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals,' on view September 14-December 2, 2017, at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
by BWW News Desk - Sep 15, 2017
Through incisive considerations of site, history, biography, and portraiture, Beverly Buchanan (1940 2015) produced landmark bodies of work, including cast concrete and mixed-media sculptures, drawings and books, and evocative paintings and photographs. 'Beverly Buchanan Ruins and Rituals,' on view September 14-December 2, 2017, at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
Bouchra Ouizguen's CORBEAUX to Make New York Debut as Part of 2017 Crossing the Line Festival
by BWW News Desk - Aug 29, 2017
As part of the 2017 edition of its celebrated Crossing the Line Festival, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, joins forces with the Brooklyn Museum, Abrons Arts Center, and Movement Research to co-present the New York Premiere of Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen's site-specific Corbeaux (Crows), Saturday, September 30, and Sunday, October 1, in the Beaux-Arts Court of the Brooklyn Museum
by BWW News Desk - Aug 29, 2017
As part of the 2017 edition of its celebrated Crossing the Line Festival, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, joins forces with the Brooklyn Museum, Abrons Arts Center, and Movement Research to co-present the New York Premiere of Moroccan choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen's site-specific Corbeaux (Crows), Saturday, September 30, and Sunday, October 1, in the Beaux-Arts Court of the Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum Hosts Alice Walker for Lecture, 5/25
by Christina Mancuso - Apr 26, 2017
On Thursday, May 25 at 7:30 pm, join acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker in an intimate lecture inspired by her life's work and the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85. Walker won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple, which was adapted as a movie in 1985 and a Broadway musical in 2005.
by Christina Mancuso - Apr 26, 2017
On Thursday, May 25 at 7:30 pm, join acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker in an intimate lecture inspired by her life's work and the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85. Walker won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple, which was adapted as a movie in 1985 and a Broadway musical in 2005.
Brooklyn Museum To Host 30th Annual BANG ON A CAN MARATHON, 5/6
by Molly Tracy - Apr 18, 2017
The Bang on a Can Marathon, celebrating its 30th anniversary, is presented for the first time at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, May 6, from 2 to 10 pm. The Marathon features eight hours of live performances by today's most innovative musicians and pioneering young artists.
by Molly Tracy - Apr 18, 2017
The Bang on a Can Marathon, celebrating its 30th anniversary, is presented for the first time at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, May 6, from 2 to 10 pm. The Marathon features eight hours of live performances by today's most innovative musicians and pioneering young artists.
Brooklyn Museum Presents INFINITE BLUE At TARGET FIRST SATURDAY
by Molly Tracy - Mar 16, 2017
On April 1, Target First Saturday will immerse visitors in the collection exhibition Infinite Blue through an evening of performance, scholarship, film, and literature that reflects on the color blue.
by Molly Tracy - Mar 16, 2017
On April 1, Target First Saturday will immerse visitors in the collection exhibition Infinite Blue through an evening of performance, scholarship, film, and literature that reflects on the color blue.
Brooklyn Museum Presents Women's History Month At TARGET FIRST SATURDAY, Today
by BWW News Desk - Mar 4, 2017
On March 4, Target First Today celebrates Women's History Month with a multiplicity of women and female-identified voices, stories, and experiences. Highlights include music by Charlotte Dos Santos and Buscabulla; a party with #SoulInTheHorn and Natasha Diggs; and a tour of the new exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern.
by BWW News Desk - Mar 4, 2017
On March 4, Target First Today celebrates Women's History Month with a multiplicity of women and female-identified voices, stories, and experiences. Highlights include music by Charlotte Dos Santos and Buscabulla; a party with #SoulInTheHorn and Natasha Diggs; and a tour of the new exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern.
Brooklyn Museum Presents GEORGIA O'KEEFE: LIVING MODERN, 3/3-7/23
by BWW News Desk - Mar 3, 2017
Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern offers a new look at the iconic American artist's powerful ownership of her identity as an artist and a woman. This major exhibition examines the modernist persona that Georgia O'Keeffe crafted for herself through her art, her dress, and her progressive, independent lifestyle.
by BWW News Desk - Mar 3, 2017
Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern offers a new look at the iconic American artist's powerful ownership of her identity as an artist and a woman. This major exhibition examines the modernist persona that Georgia O'Keeffe crafted for herself through her art, her dress, and her progressive, independent lifestyle.
Brooklyn Museum Presents Women's History Month At TARGET FIRST SATURDAY, 3/4
by Molly Tracy - Feb 13, 2017
On March 4, Target First Saturday celebrates Women's History Month with a multiplicity of women and female-identified voices, stories, and experiences. Highlights include music by Charlotte Dos Santos and Buscabulla; a party with #SoulInTheHorn and Natasha Diggs; and a tour of the new exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern.
by Molly Tracy - Feb 13, 2017
On March 4, Target First Saturday celebrates Women's History Month with a multiplicity of women and female-identified voices, stories, and experiences. Highlights include music by Charlotte Dos Santos and Buscabulla; a party with #SoulInTheHorn and Natasha Diggs; and a tour of the new exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern.
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