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Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm
As The Beatles captured the hearts of millions, founding member Paul McCartney captured it all on his Pentax camera. Traveling from the UK to New York—just as “the boys” did six decades ago—Eyes of the Storm takes us inside the frenzy of Beatlemania in 1963–64, when the band’s first U.S. tour skyroc... [ + ]keted them to superstardom. More than 250 of McCartney’s photos, recently rediscovered in his archives, reveal his singular vantage point at the center of this whirlwind of attention and adoration. Many of the prints buzz with the electricity of 1960s New York City, which has had a love affair with The Beatles ever since.Displayed alongside video clips and archival material, the photographs not only showcase McCartney’s artistic versatility but also serve as a personal and historical record. They convey the intensity of The Beatles’ touring schedule, as the Fab Four were swept from concerts to hotels to the road with rabid fans and paparazzi at their heels. The images also evoke an affectionate family album, picturing McCartney and bandmates John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr at a time when their lives were changing irrevocably. See through the “eyes of the storm,” as McCartney describes his unique perspective on this extraordinary period, and relive a musical legend’s meteoric rise.
Students with valid I.D. and Seniors: $10
Ages under 19 and Members: Free
First Saturday of every month except January, July and September: Free
Museum Spotlight: 200 Years of Learning and Creativity with American Art
A single artwork can contain a multitude of meanings; an art educator can help us unravel and understand them all. For two centuries, education has been central to the Brooklyn Museum. As we count down to our 200th anniversary celebration this fall, and celebrate the opening of our new Toby Devan Le... [ + ]wis Education Center, we’re revisiting and reaffirming our steadfast commitment to learning. 200 Years of Learning and Creativity with American Art presents sixteen works—from Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 portrait of George Washington to Acoma Pueblo potter Grace Chino’s 1989 vase inspired by ancient Pueblo pots and shards—that illuminate connections between history and contemporary life. Prompts accompanying the works exemplify how Brooklyn Museum educators use art to engage visitors of all ages and walks of life, encouraging dialogue, play, and critical reflection.Visually and thematically rich, these paintings, drawings, vessels, and masks are highlights of our Arts of the Americas and American Art galleries, sections of which are currently closed in anticipation of a major transformation this fall. As we reflect on the history of the Museum’s education department, whose roots date back to 1913, we continue to build on this legacy, supporting learning and creativity for centuries to come.
Students with valid I.D. and Seniors: $10
Ages under 19 and Members: Free
First Saturday of every month except January, July and September: Free
Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)
What are the must-see locations in your favorite city? Where do you go when you need a breath of fresh air? What makes certain neighborhoods famous? Join an artist-insider on a tour of nineteenth-century Tokyo (then known as Edo), from lumberyards to destination restaurants, and see if his choices i... [ + ]lluminate your own relationship with the cities you know well.For the first time in twenty-four years, Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo—one of the Brooklyn Museum’s greatest treasures—returns to public display. The Museum’s complete set of these celebrated prints is among the world’s finest, full of vibrant colors preserved by decades in the dark. While most presentations have centered on the prints’ technical sophistication and influence on European artists, here we focus on their urban subject matter. Originally published in 1856–58, the series captures the evolving socioeconomic and environmental landscape of the city that would become Tokyo. Through both the prints and complementary objects drawn from the Museum’s collection, you’ll be immersed in mid-nineteenth-century Edo and see it through the eyes of the ordinary people who populate Hiroshige’s settings. You’ll encounter all four seasons in scenes of picnics beneath cherry blossoms, summer rainstorms, falling maple leaves, and wintry dusks. The exhibition also includes modern photographs to show how Hiroshige’s scenes morphed into today’s Tokyo.Artist Takashi Murakami (born Tokyo, Japan, 1962) takes Hiroshige’s views into a more fantastical realm with a set of his own paintings. Created in direct response to 100 Famous Views of Edo, these works invite us to reconsider Hiroshige’s world and his contributions to global art history.
Students with valid I.D. and Seniors: $10
Ages under 19 and Members: Free
First Saturday of every month except January, July and September: Free
Nona Faustine: White Shoes
“What does a Black person look like today in those places where Africans were once sold, a century and a half ago?” asks artist Nona Faustine (born 1977). Using her own body, she interrogates this question in her photographic series White Shoes. More than 40 self-portraits show Faustine standing in ... [ + ]sites across New York City, from Harlem to Wall Street to Prospect Park and beyond, that are built upon legacies of enslavement in New York—one of the last Northern states to abolish slavery. On her feet are a pair of sensible white pumps, which speak to the oppressions of colonialism and assimilation imposed on Black and Indigenous peoples locally, nationally, and globally. Otherwise nude, partially covered, or holding props, Faustine is at once vulnerable and commanding, standing in solidarity with ancestors whose bodies and memory form an archive in the land beneath her shoes.Nona Faustine: White Shoes is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and the first complete installation of this consequential series. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Faustine urges us to think critically about the hidden, often traumatic histories of the places we call home. As such topics are being erased from public school curricula nationwide, this display is a moment to consider the enduring impact that the past has on our present.
Students with valid I.D. and Seniors: $10
Ages under 19 and Members: Free
First Saturday of every month except January, July and September: Free
In the Now: Gender and Nation in Europe, Selections from the Sir Mark Fehrs
In the Now unites nearly fifty women artists who are resisting traditional ideas of gender and nationality, as well as of photography itself. The first museum survey of photography-based works by women artists born or based in Europe, this exhibition interrogates the continent’s legacies of national... [ + ]ism and patriarchal power structures—which continue to shape everyday life, particularly for women.In the Now highlights the expansive nature of the Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Photography Collection at the Brooklyn Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Made entirely after 2000, the exhibition’s more than seventy artworks offer a window into the first decades of the twenty-first century. In the section titled “Gender,” photographers such as Bettina von Zwehl and Elina Brotherus contend with (mis)representations of women’s bodies and experiences, bucking against oppressive beauty standards and the male gaze. “Nation” unpacks the promises—and realities—of contemporary Europe and the ongoing fallout of European nationalism and colonialism. The controlled explosion in Sarah Pickering’s Landmine (2005), for example, underscores the relative peace in England as British troops supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And in “Photography,” women artists upend this male-dominated medium with experimental approaches—as in Shirana Shahbazi’s Farsh-13-2006 (2006), a Vermeer-inspired photographic portrait translated onto a carpet hand-knotted in her native Iran. Together the works defy outdated definitions of a woman, an artist, a nation, and a photograph.
Students with valid I.D. and Seniors: $10
Ages under 19 and Members: Free
First Saturday of every month except January, July and September: Free