Brooklyn Museum

How do you grow up without becoming a grown-up? 💭

That’s the question at-hand for Brooklyn Talks with Julian Shapiro-Barnum and Tefi Pessoa on August 6 at 7 pm.

Drawing from five years of interviews with thousands of children, comedian and creator of , Julian Shapiro-Barnum shares lessons from wise young people about how adults can reconnect with the joy and play of their childhood selves.

In this talk, celebrate the release of his debut book How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up by exploring how to reclaim imagination and return wonder to your work, and when to break the rules.

Julian is joined in conversation by Tefi Pessoa, a multihyphenate entertainer and host of the podcast Tefi Talks. Stick around for a signing with the author afterward.

🎟️ Tickets are $25 ($15 for Members). Tickets including a copy of How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up are $40 ($30 for Members). Get yours through the link in our bio.

📷 Julian Shapiro-Barnum. (Photo: Justin J Wee) → Tefi Pessoa. (Photo: Sarah Krick)

Celebrate City of Water Day with us in Coney Island! 🎢

The Museum on Wheels will be in Kaiser Park day of free, family-friendly events on or near the water inspired by New York City’s waterfront.

Transform beach finds into art, discover coastal treasures through touch tours, create colorful pinwheels, and connect with local organizations that support the community.

🗓️ Saturday, July 25, 10 am–2 pm
📍 Kaiser Park,​ 3053 Neptune Avenue​,​ Brooklyn,​ NY 11224
👪 All ages are welcome

Join us there and enter an on-site giveaway to win a free 6-month Brooklyn Museum Membership!

This program is created in partnership with Coney Island Beautification Project, Inc. and the Waterfront Alliance.

Additional program partners include: NYC Health + Hospitals, Staten Island Museum, One Love Community Fridge

📷 Museum on Wheels: Flatbush, June 2026. (Photo: Argenis Apolinario)

Zoom in for a special message. 🧐

Made in collaboration with Venetian glassmakers, “Iago’s Mirror” by Fred Wilson embodies the hyperdecorative aesthetic of Rococo-style mirrors.

See this artwork in Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art on the fifth floor.

📷 Fred Wilson. Iago’s Mirror, 2009. Murano glass. Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by John and Barbara Vogelstein, purchase gift of Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia, Arline and Norman Feinberg, Beverly and Steven A. Newborn, Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz, Leslie L. and Alan Beller, Barbara and Richard W. Moore, and Carla Shen , 2011.11. © 2010 Fred Wilson, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Mark Independence Day the Brooklyn Museum way. 🇺🇸

Explore the people and the movements that have fought for the greater potential of our democracy and defined American culture through a series of self-guided audio tours across our collection on the Bloomberg Connects app: https://bit.ly/4wrir3q

🎨 Wadsworth A. Jarrell. Revolutionary (Angela Davis) (detail), 1971. © Wadsworth Jarrell. → Sasha Gordon. My Friend Will Be Me, 2022. → George Benjamin Luks. Street Scene (Hester Street) (detail), 1905. → John Koch. East River (detail), ca. 1930. © Estate of John Koch. → Robert Peterson. Love is Love (detail), 2022. © Robert Peterson (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Everyone who visits is a VIP, but our Members enjoy some special perks, including…

🎟️ Free, untimed tickets to Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

🛍️ Discounts on dining, shopping, tours, art classes, additional guests, and ticketed programs

💌 First dibs on tickets to special exhibitions, First Saturdays, previews, programs, and more

😌 Members-only access to the galleries and special programming, like Member Evenings and Member Mornings

📷 Opening Reception: Iris van Herpen, 2026. (Photo: Matthew Carasella Photography)

Donald Moffett: IMPEACH is highbrow, brilliant on the New York Magazine matrix. ✔️

In IMPEACH, artist Donald Moffett turns the floor of the US House of Representatives in December 1998 into an immersive sound installation.

As the chamber debates whether to impeach President Bill Clinton, Representative John Lewis delivers a deeply personal speech about surviving a devastating storm—and about holding a divided nation together.

Removing the speech from its original context, Moffett allows us to focus on the details of the congressman’s story, the echoes of applause and the sound of the gavel as the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee attempts to silence him.

Experience this sound installation on the fifth floor of the Museum, on view now.

📷 The Approval Matrix, courtesy of New York Magazine. (Photo: New York Magazine) → The US Senate floor proceedings during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, 1999. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

“How can you be bored with nature? Landscape is infinite, isn’t it?” —David Hockney 🌳

Remembering the visionary artist and his love for nature with “Picture of a Landscape in an Elaborate Gold Frame” from our collection.

In this work, Hockney juxtaposes a serene tree with an ornate, gold frame, exploring the relationship between subject and time with his signature “play within a play” technique, which he employed to create an optical illusion between art and reality.

🎨 David Hockney (British, 1937–2026). Picture of a Landscape in an Elaborate Gold Frame, 1965. Lithograph in six colors on wove paper. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wendy F. Findlay, 76.16.2. © David Hockney (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

The work of Matisse, Renoir, Degas, and more French leading artists is now on view in Pittsburgh. 🖼️

French Moderns: Matisse / Renoir / Degas opens today at The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens.

Encompassing realism, impressionism, post-impressionism, symbolism, Fauvism, cubism, and surrealism, this exhibition features 56 works from the Brooklyn Museum’s collections that exemplify the avant-garde movements that defined modern art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and that continue to awe art-goers today.

Plan your visit to see these incredible paintings, drawings and sculptures through October 11, 2026: https://bit.ly/4uDfknt

🎨 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). The Vineyards at Cagnes, 1908. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Colonel and Mrs. Edgar W. Garbisch, 51.219. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)