Dear friends,I hope your summer has been glorious! As the season winds down, things are heating up h

Dear friends,I hope your summer has been glorious! As the season winds down, things are heating up here at the Brooklyn Museum. Fall is always an exciting time for us, and this year is no exception. Through a robust series of exhibitions and public programs, matched with expanding educational opportunities and community collaborations, we have a big season ahead of us and there’s a lot to share.We’ve long been committed to exhibitions and programs that amplify inclusive and canon-expanding narratives, and this tradition continues on September 14 with the opening of our hotly anticipated fall exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. The show, originated at Tate Modern, shines a new light on Black artists working during a time of rapid artistic experimentation and political change during the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and ’70s. We have incredible public programs planned to coincide with the show—from an opening weekend celebration to artist talks, a special BkM Teen Night, two dedicated Target First Saturdays, and a program that honors intergenerational leaders of Black-led arts organizations here in Brooklyn and throughout the city. Thanks to the Ford Foundation for their lead support of this important exhibition.We’re also giving our visitors an opportunity to look at the Museum’s collection in unexpected ways. Rob Wynne’s FLOAT is creating poetic, beautiful encounters with our world-famous collection of American art on the 5th Floor, and Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu breathes new life into the collection of ancient Andean textiles and quipus with a monumental installation in our Great Hall. Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, on view in our Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, highlights work by more than fifty artists created in response to crucial social and political moments from the last 100 years—from World War I to the Civil Rights Movement and #MeToo.We know you count on us for timely conversations about today’s key issues. So, this fall, we’re working with a number of contemporary artists who are thinking more broadly about the universal search for home and community in the face of social, political, and economic hardships occurring around the world and in our own backyard. Artists who have been personally affected by global displacement, forced migration, and immigration are exploring ways to forge community, stay connected, and create a new home in the toughest of circumstances. Opening in October, a monumental installation and new acquisition for our collection by Korean American artist Do Ho Suh will be on view in our 5th Floor Rotunda: it re-creates the artist’s longtime home in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, and highlights his artistic concerns with cultural displacement, memory, and identity. Another show takes a personal look at the refugee crisis in Syria, as well as its historical roots: Syria, Then and Now: Stories from Refugees a Century Apart, made possible by the Misk Institute and the Arab Art and Education Initiative, draws attention to the plight of refugees in early twentieth-century Syria and today by pairing artifacts from our collection of Islamic art with work by three contemporary Arab artists. Meanwhile, thanks to our partnership with Bank of America, our conservators are hard at work in the 3rd Floor galleries restoring six ancient Assyrian reliefs from the Nimrud Palace, near Mosul, Iraq—where numerous cultural heritage sites have been desecrated by ISIL. Stop by to get a rare, behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to restore these important reliefs from the ninth century B.C.E.At our front door, we’ve invited four Brooklyn artists to install text-based works, in our public plaza and entry spaces, for a yearlong activation that highlights the Museum’s responsibility as a leader in civic discourse, inspiring thoughtful dialogue and exchange around relevant issues of the day. Something to Say celebrates the work of local artists Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Deborah Kass, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Hank Willis Thomas, and will be on view through summer 2019! To kick off this activation, we’re inviting friends and family for a day of art-making and activities on October 6, leading up to our evening Target First Saturday programming.As ever, our Education team is also making huge strides by expanding our paid internship programs through partnerships with colleges around the country, from CUNY to Stanford, and has launched a new two-year partnership with Citibank that allows us to bring in ten full-time paid fellows. Working in collaboration with historically Black colleges and universities, the Citi fellowship aims to access promising young talent and to ensure that the next generation of museum professionals reflects the growing diversity of museum audiences. We’ve also trained and paid 45 local teens in our Education department—not to mention that our brand-new summer camp program provided increased access to the Museum for all of Brooklyn’s youth, thanks to our recently created Carol Frieman Finkel Scholarship Fund.From education to community partnerships, our commitments are growing, and we couldn’t be more excited to go even further in the coming months. I hope you’ll come visit us this fall and check out our progress. It’s going to be another blockbuster season for our new exhibitions and public programs. We’ve been your Brooklyn Museum for 195 years—and counting—and we look forward to sharing many years to come, each one full of fun, inspiration, and memorable experiences with great art. And, as ever, we thank you for your support and belief in our work. I look forward to seeing you in our galleries and at our public programs this fall!Yours,Anne PasternakShelby White and Leon Levy DirectorBrooklyn Museum -- source link

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