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Have you made a special connection at First Saturdays? 🫂 Ahead of the return of our always-free, community-loved event in February 2026, we’re collecting stories of connections made during First Saturdays. You 🤝 A best friend You 🤝 A mentor You 🤝 A significant other You 🤝 An artist you admire If you have a story to share, tell us in the comments or drop us a line via email at yo@brooklynmuseum.org. 📷 Unknown photographer. First Saturdays, circa 2000. S-06. Brooklyn Museum Photograph Collection. Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives. → First Saturday: Friends & Family, , 05/03/2025. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Kolin Mendez Photography) → 200th Birthday Bash at the Brooklyn Museum, October 5, 2024. (Photo: Brian Fraser/Kolin Mendez Photography) #FirstSaturdaysBkM #BrooklynMuseum #Brooklyn #community

📣 Calling all artists and makers with 7 years (or less) of studio practice. The inaugural Spector Craft Prize for Emerging Artists Jury will recognize and platform the next generation of American craft across disciplines including ceramics, woodworking, glass, textiles, metalwork, paper arts, basketry, and more. Applications for the Spector Craft Prize for Emerging Artists open through March 1, 2026. Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. Learn more at spectorcraftprize.org

The Giants have touched down in Richmond! 🛬 Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys is now open at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. From the collection of musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys, the exhibition is expansive and features over 130 works of art by 40 Black artists from Africa, Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean. 📷 Jamel Shabazz. Trio, Brooklyn, NYC, 1980. Chromogenic print. The Dean Collection (@thedeancollection), courtesy of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. © Jamel Shabazz. (Photo: Glenn Steigelman) → Photo: David Stover © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts #Giants #BrooklynMuseum #VirginiaMuseumOfFineArts

Next week brings the third US edition of Museums Next Generation and we’re proud to be represented by Annissa Malvoisin, Associate Curator of African Art at the Brooklyn Museum, one of only seven curators selected for this prestigious award. Museums Next Generation offers a unique, behind-the-scenes look into the museum world, connecting an internationally-recognized cohort of emerging leaders from France and the United States with groundbreaking institutions and visionary professionals. Safe travels to the 2025 cohort! We look forward to the insights this year’s immersive journey will bring. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e-XFF6zc

Now open… Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations. Much like Gloria Steinem’s bestselling book of essays, which inspired the exhibition, Everyday Rebellions celebrates how individual choices can disrupt familiar narratives and reimagine resistance through surprising pairings of new acquisitions and rarely seen objects in our collection. From Beverly Semmes’s cascading velvet dresses that symbolize female harmony to Sarah Sze’s sculptural installation that reflects on nature’s fragility, the works on view in the Center for Feminist Art spark conversation. Learn more and plan your visit: https://lnkd.in/eMwFRv7w 📷 Installation view, Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations. Brooklyn Museum, October 10, 2025–July 5, 2026. (Photo: Paula Abreu Pita) #EverydayRebellionsBkM #BrooklynMuseum #museum #art

Claude Monet once said, “Venice… no…I will not go to Venice.” Thankfully, his wife, Alice, insisted and in 1908 Claude finally relented. The couple’s 10-week visit resulted in Claude capturing the city’s shimmering canals, vistas of Venice as seen from his hotel room window, and some of the city’s iconic buildings, including The Palazzo Ducale, which he painted from a gondola floating at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Bacino di San Marco. Along with other radiant artworks from across his career, experience the splendor of the fabled city of Venice through the eyes of Monet and other renowned artists including: Canaletto, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and more. Plus, #MonetAndVenice also features a 4.1.4 - channel spatial audio installation by Composer in Residence Niles Luther—conceived as a fully integrated “invisible sound sculpture” within the gallery space. The music you hear now is only a taste of more to explore during your visit. Plan your visit through February 1, 2026: https://lnkd.in/eUZ9gV7t 🎥 Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Giverny. Except from Those of Our Land (Ceux de chez nous), 1915. Directed by Sacha Guitry. INA mediapro → Claude Monet and his wife, Alice, in Piazza San Marco, Venice, October 1908. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Inv. 2013.0.2.17. (Photo: Bridgeman Images) Monet and Venice at the Brooklyn Museum Lead Sponsor Bank of America #BrooklynMuseum #ClaudeMonet #Venice #TooBeautifulToBePainted

Now open… Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens 📸 Get ready for a glimpse into Bamako from the late 1940s to early 1960s—an era of profound political and social transformation—as part of the most expansive North American exhibition of this legendary Malian photographer’s work to date. “It was in the photo studio that administrative ID was created, marriages reported, births celebrated, graduation ceremonies captured,” Sana Ginwalla writes in the exhibition catalogue. “Beyond this, the studio became a place for people to imagine alternate lives, outside their social and economic structures.” Plan your visit to Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens through March 8, 2026: https://lnkd.in/euXy2p2P Generous support is provided by VLISCO. 📷 Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1956, printed 2018. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection and Danziger Gallery, NY → Untitled, 1952–55, printed ca. 1994–2001. → Untitled, ca. 1952–55, printed 1994. → Untitled, ca. 1956–57, printed 1994. → Untitled, 1959, printed 2001. → Untitled, 1956–57, printed 1994. Courtesy of The Jean Pigozzi African Art Collection. © SKPEAC/Seydou Keïta, courtesy The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art and Danziger Gallery, NY #SeydouKeitaBkM #BrooklynMuseum #SeydouKeita #photography #exhibition

Hey yo, Baltimore! 👋 Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt opens today at The Walters Art Museum. Examining the important role of animals in ancient Egyptian society—both in life and in the afterlife—this exhibition seeks to reveal the stories behind animal mummification. Visit Soulful Creatures to see over 100 objects on view, including animal mummies and artifacts related to animals and their ritual significance, through January 11, 2026: https://bit.ly/4nzb1GL 🎨 Cat Coffin with Mummy. From Egypt. Late Period, Dynasty 26–Dynasty 30, 664–332 B.C.E. Wood, gesso, linen, 21 1/4 × 7 1/16 x 14 3/16 in. (54 × 18 × 36.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1942E. (Photo: Sarah DeSantis, Brooklyn Museum) → Courtesy of The Walters Museum of Art #BrooklynMuseum #WaltersArtMuseum #BkMEgyptianArt

Now open… Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea. 🪸 Inspired by the work of artist, author, and climate advocate, Oliver Jeffers, we invite you to animate this deep-blue scene by populating the waters with paper fish and other aquatic life. Join us all weekend long for family fun, including: 🪼 September 20, 12–4 pm: Opening Celebration (with the artist!) 🐟 September 21, 12–4 pm: Drop-In Workshops Plus, on October 6, Jeffers will join us for Brooklyn Talks alongside author, Mary Annaïse Heglar, for a conversation about Jeffers’ latest children’s book, “I’m Very Busy,” as well as a behind-the-scenes look into his creative practice and the reasons he believes the ocean is key to caring for our planet. Learn more about these events and plan your visit to Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea: https://lnkd.in/euhp7CRc 📷 Oliver Jeffers. Brooklyn Museum, 2025. → Installation view, Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea. Brooklyn Museum, September 19, 2025–April 26, 2026. (Photos: Paula Abreu Pita) #OliverJeffersBkM #BrooklynMuseum #OliverJeffers #art #museum

Elizabeth Catlett: “A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies” is now open at the Art Institute of Chicago. A deft sculptor and printmaker, ardent feminist, and lifelong social activist, Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) was a defining artist of the 20th century. Across nearly 100 years—from Jim Crow segregation through the Cold War and into Barack Obama’s first term as president—Catlett remained steadfast in her commitment to both her art and her political beliefs. See her powerful work on view in Chicago through January 4, 2026: https://bit.ly/46jkpsc 📷 Elizabeth Catlett. Sharecropper, 1952. Linocut. Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Gift of Paula Kaplan Hawkins (Class of 1957). © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY → Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago #ElizabethCatlettBkM #ElizabethCatlett #BrooklynMuseum #ArtInstituteofChicago