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The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures. Our mission is to create inspiring encounters with art that expand the ways we see ourselves, the world and its possibilities.
06/04/2026
“It’s couture, honey!” 💅
To say we’re enjoying the discourse about Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses would be an understatement.
🎟️ Plan your visit to see the work of this visionary designer through the link in our bio.
📷 Installation view of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, Brooklyn Museum, 2026. (Photo: On White Wall/Paula Abreu Pita)
05/29/2026
If you hear someone yell out 'BINGO!' in the galleries, this may be why. ✔️
While you explore art in our galleries, find works to fill each space on your bingo card. Win bingo or blackout for discounts you can redeem in the Museum Shop.
Pick-up your bingo card at the admissions desk during your next visit!
05/17/2026
“They bloomed firmly in the white heat of the summer… like the Issei immigrants who had endured the heat and cold and the stormy, political weather.” —Hisako Hibi
To artist Hisako Hibi, this still life of bright yellow sunflowers represented the resilience of unjustly imprisoned Japanese Americans during World War II.
While incarcerated at the Topaz War Relocation Center in central Utah, Hibi used her brushes and paint to celebrate the cheerful harvest that she and fellow inmates cultivated in the harsh desert soil. The fresh fruits and vegetables grown by the inmates not only appeared in Hibi’s paintings, but they also supplemented government rations and brightened the residential barracks.
See this work in Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art on view now. 🌻
🖼️ Hisako Hibi. Topaz Sunflowers, 1944. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2023.26.2. © Hisako Hibi. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
05/15/2026
Who or what gives meaning to a photograph?
“Seydou Keïta is celebrated for the very painterly, tactile quality of his images,” guest curator, Catherine E. McKinley, writes in the exhibition catalogue.
“The tones and textures of skin; the complex layers of patterning; the almost tangible sense of his touch made to clothing and hands and faces as he posed sitters and props, so that the viewer seems to touch them too.”
This is the final week to witness the power of photography through a legendary Malian photographer’s richly layered images on view in Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens, closing May 17.
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Brooklyn-based artist and 2026 UOVO Prize winner Keisha Scarville weaves together themes dealing with loss, latencies and the elusive body.
Her first-ever large-scale installations are now open on the Brooklyn Museum’s Iris Cantor Plaza and the facade of UOVO Brooklyn as part of the 2026 UOVO Prize. Her work features striking black-and-white photographs and still lifes. Many of which are part of the series “Mama’s Clothes,” featuring images overlaid onto garments belonging to the artist’s late mother, Alma.
In this clip from Brooklyn Talks: A Tribute to Seydou Keïta, Scarville discusses incorporating her mother’s fabrics, questioning what our bodies look like in grief, and how Keïta’s approach to posing helped shape her series, “Mama’s Clothes.”
Visit Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water now open to the public at the Brooklyn Museum and UOVO Brooklyn.
📷 Keisha Scarville. Mama’s Clothes, 2018. → Negotiating/Maneuver (12), 2023. → Negotiating/Maneuver (29), 2025. Courtesy of the artist. © Keisha Scarville → Keisha Scarville, 2026. (Photo: Paula Abreu Pita)
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