As we prepare to set sail for the holidays and reappear in a brand new year, we’ve been looking back
As we prepare to set sail for the holidays and reappear in a brand new year, we’ve been looking back on the year that brought us here and how we might grow in the year to come. 2015 brought us a new director, Anne Pasternak, who has been dreaming with us about the future of the Museum. We’re grateful for exhibitions such as Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence, and The Rise of Sneaker Culture for connecting us to our local and global communities to collectively envision how to move forward. Art Off the Wall: The Rise of Sneaker Culture put the shoes into action with local dancers and a shoe drive with the help of Heeling Soles. Zanele Muholi’s photographs of LGBTI communities, photography workshops, and numerous conversations prompted us to consider issues of gender and sexuality on an international scale. We were inspired to rewrite history through Kehinde Wiley’s reinterpretations of traditional European painting at Beats & Baroque Figure Drawing. Then, we even got to go out into the sun for the Street Art Now walking tour with Brooklyn Street Art. If only we could revisit the whole year, but a few highlights will have to suffice. This next year, we can’t wait to continue challenging the Museum, Brooklyn, and beyond to imagine the ways we can shape and mold the world, then go forward and create it!Posted by Lena Sawyer -- source link
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