The Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park is Brooklyn’s big museum.
It has strong collections of African art. Civilization as we now it today, started in what is now Iraq and developed further in Egypt in Mother Africa between 4,000 and 3,000 BCE.
First Saturdays are a fun community block party with free cultural programming on first Saturdays (except Jan and Sep) from 5-11pm. FREE. First-come, first-served. brooklynmuseum.org
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(between Underhill & Washington Ave)
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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New York Junior Carnival Parade 2022
Saturday, September 3, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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New York Carnival Steel Pan Competition 2022 is Back With A Minor Change
Saturday, September 3, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM GROUNDS
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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New York Carnival J’ouvert 2022 Paintopia is Going to Be Colorful, Wet and Happy
Sunday, September 4, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM GROUNDS
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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New York Carnival & West Indian Day Parade 2022 are Back in Brooklyn!
VIBES WITH VOICE Soca concert
Thursday, September 1, 2022
ISLAND 2 ISLAND Soca concert
Friday, September 2, 2022
JUNIOR CARNIVAL + PAN IN A MINOR
Saturday, September 3, 2022
PAINTOPIA J’OUVERT + AMNESIA Soca & Dancehall party
Sunday, September 4, 2022
WEST INDIAN DAY PARADE
Monday, September 5, 2022
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Museum Collections
The Museum has strong collections of Egyptian and African art. It’s Arts of the Americas collection includes Pre-Columbian art.
Arts of Africa
The Museum started collecting African art in 1900. An expansion of the collection with objects from what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo led to the African Art Exhibition of 1923, one of the first exhibitions of African art in the United States.
Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas
The Arts of the Americas Galleries on the 5th Floor exhibit Pre-Columbian art including Brazilian, Colombian, Mexican, Peruvian and other artifacts.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
The Center produces excellent exhibitions of women’s art. Yes, it’s the Sackler family that helped create the U.S. opioid crisis. Supposedly Elizabeth is from a different branch of that family. Anyway, the curation is excellent.
First Saturdays
First Saturdays (except in September) are sort of a cultural block party. The Museum is open late until 11 pm and hosts multicultural performing arts. First Saturdays are FREE from 5-11pm.
A Beaux-Arts Masterpiece
The museum is an 1897 Beaux-Arts building. Originally intended to be the world’s largest art museum, it was designed by legendary New York City architects McKim, Mead and White.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A Haitian-Puerto Rican New Yorker, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was the first international Black art star. In 2017, his “Untitled” (1982) set auction records for an American artist, a Black artist, and Contemporary art.
Basquiat’s interest in art came from his mother. As a child, she used to take him regularly to the Brooklyn Museum. Take your kids to the museum!
Latin Culture at the Brooklyn Museum
October 2022
First Saturdays celebrate Black, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ traditions at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, October 1, 2022 from 5-10pm. Free. brooklynmuseum.org
June 2022
Celebrate Juneteenth Black liberation and creativity in a full day of family activities on Sunday, June 19, 2022 from 11am – 7pm. Free with RSVP. brooklynmuseum.org 🇺🇸
April 2022
New York Salvadoran artist Guadalupe Maravilla : Tierra Blanca Joven, works to heal undocumented and cancer communities, Friday, April 8 – September 18, 2022. brooklynmuseum.org 🇸🇻
March 2022
Balmir Dance Society leads a Salsa Dance Party with live music on Thursday, March 10, 2022 from 6-9:30pm. Free with registration. brooklynmuseum.org
Artist’s Eye: Viva Ruiz on Andy Warhol is an exhibition walkthrough with the Ecuadorian Queer artist explaining Warhol’s Catholic imagery on Thursday, March 3, 2022 from 7-8pm. brooklynmuseum.org 🇪🇨🏳️🌈
October 2021
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial is Fri, Oct 29, 2021 – June 26, 2022. $16. brooklynmuseum.org 🇲🇽
June 2021
First Saturday Lite: Still Here, Still Queer honors queer and trans icons with a drag and burlesque showcase outdoors, Saturday, June 5, 2021 from 2-6pm. FREE 🏳️🌈
