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Shift perspectives, think differently, look at art through the artist’s eye.   

Since 1980, Jamel Shabazz has created enduring images of style, community, and joy throughout the five boroughs, particularly Brooklyn. Take a close look at his new installation Faces and Places, 1980–2023 on July 27 from 7-8 pm. This intimate outdoor conversation between the artist and curator Drew Sawyer will be followed by a signing of the limited-edition exhibition catalogue. 

Tickets are $25 ($20 for Members).

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Get ready to double down on your love for Brooklyn and the people who give this borough its heart. 

Beginning on June 2, the work of Brooklyn-born photographer, Jamel Shabazz, will line our outdoor plaza just in time for summer. The installation includes hundreds of Shabazz’s portraits from the last 40 years showcasing the vibrant people and places of our beloved Brooklyn and beyond. 

Meet us on the stoop and learn more about this installation: https://bit.ly/JamelShabazzBkM

Summer days spent in the city may very well lead you to one of our borough’s great green spaces… Prospect Park.

“Spending time in the park afforded me a temporary escape from the fast pace of city life,” says Jamel Shabazz. “Photographing in [Prospect Park and Central Park] also provided me with the opportunity to create various distinguished bodies of work, from environmental portraits, candid images of families, and endless celebrations that took place on any given day.”

Add our stoop to your route to or from the park to see portraits like these as part of Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023. 

How’s this for heartwarming? ❤️

From subway smiles to posing in the park, here are a host of portraits captured by Jamel Shabazz of fathers and their kids from around our beloved city.

Sending love to all of you Dads! 

📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Father & Son, New York City, 1988. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Father and Seeds, Harlem, Circa 2000. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Riding High, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1996. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). First Born, Red Hook, Brooklyn, 1982. © Jamel Shabazz

Now Open… Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023. 📸

Born in Brooklyn, Shabazz’s interest in photography sparked at age 15. His earliest influences include his family’s photo albums, which have been passed down and expanded over generations. As a result, Shabazz has collated his own photographs into albums over the years. While traversing the city, he would often show them to potential collaborators as examples of his past work and of the poses of others. Like his family’s albums, they also serve as archives of heritage and affirmation. Along with individual portraits, Faces and Places features reproductions of several pages from these albums, focusing on Shabazz’s extensive work in New York City parks over the past forty years.

See Shabazz’s work as part of #ArtOnTheStoop all summer long.

We can't wait for you to see Mona Chalabi’s The Gray-Green Divide. Join Mona during the opening weekend on May 21 at 2 pm, as she hosts a conversation about her outdoor installation, which explores environmental justice and climate change through data patterns linking income, trees, and heat across Brooklyn.⁠ ⁠ The program begins with an outdoor artist talk on the plaza steps and continues with an exploratory walk through the neighborhood led by Antonia Estela Pérez—artist, herbalist and co-founder of Herban Cura. ⁠ Tickets are $25 ($20 for Members) and include general admission to the Museum. For access needs, please email [email protected].⁠

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I spy with my little eye… a friend, a neighbor, a family member… wait, is that me?

Visit #ArtOnTheStoop to see Jamel Shabazz: Faces and Places, 1980–2023, and you might just see a familiar face. Use #JamelShabazzBkM to help us identify you or people you know pictured in the installation. We can’t wait to see who you find!