Suneil Sanzgiri’s exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum joins lines of companionship across histories of colonial dispossession.
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Brooklyn Museum and PEN America Accused of “Silence” on Gaza Ceasefire
Activists staged an action at the museum after filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster and writers Nikki Giovanni and Doreen St. Félix withdrew from a planned event in protest.
10 Arrested in Protest Outside Brooklyn Museum
Around 300 people gathered at the museum to decry Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and the suppression of pro-Palestine voices.
Spike Lee on His Collection of WWII Propaganda Posters
The film director and New York icon discusses the trials and triumphs behind the posters featured in his Brooklyn Museum exhibition.
Organizers Handing Out Flyers Thrown Out of Brooklyn Museum
The flyers explored links between the Black and Palestinian liberation movements and called out the museum’s sources of funding.
Pro-Palestine Activists Rally at Brooklyn Museum
Protesters demanded that the New York City institution sever ties with donors financially connected to Israel.
A Peek Into the Brooklyn Museum’s Latest Acquisitions
Works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Dyani White Hawk, Emily Sargent, and Hisako Hibi are among the 300 pieces joining the museum’s collection.
Averting Strike, Brooklyn Museum Union Ratifies First Contract
The union secured wage increases and other wins just a day before a planned strike deadline and amid an ongoing unfair labor practices complaint.
Brooklyn Museum Union Plans Strike as Contract Negotiations Stall
Citing “low salaries and lack of real career development,” workers say they will strike on November 8 if an agreement is not reached.
A Deep Dive Into the Underground World of Zines
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, opening next month at the Brooklyn Museum, will feature nearly a thousand works by almost 100 artists.
What Would a Truly Critical Picasso Exhibition Look Like?
A 21st-century institution cannot center Picasso’s legacy without also foregrounding the global forms, artists, and practices that remain omitted from the Euro-American canon of Cubist and Abstract art.
Why You Should Go See Hannah Gadsby’s It’s Pablo-matic
The male-dominated art establishment has always used Pablo Picasso’s “genius” to marginalize women. On the 50th anniversary of his death, this is the only show to challenge that.