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For the finale of Thierry Mugler’s 10th anniversary collection in March 1984, Pat Cleveland descended from the ceiling as the Madonna in this luminescent, layered chiffon gown. Oh, and she happened to be four months pregnant at the time, with her son Noel!

On February 23, Cleveland will join Matthew Yokobosky, Senior Curator of Fashion and Material Culture, at the Brooklyn Museum for a behind-the-scenes conversation into the intricacies and joys of working with the perfectionist Thierry Mugler.

“[What] hypnotic powers that Thierry Mugler had.  His vision was so intense and so outrageous and so worthwhile,” said Cleveland. “I always felt like I was making history when I did his shows because he is one of the most fabulous and creative showmen, ever.”

Don’t miss this special evening of #BkMTalks and after-hours access to #Couturissime. #ThierryMuglerBkM 

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Have you heard of climate grief? It’s a term coined to describe that sense of mourning or concern that may wash over you regarding the ecological crisis. 

On November 3 at 7 pm, we’re hosting a conversation between artists and activists. This instance of Brooklyn Talks will cover strategies for addressing climate change and advancing environmental justice across art, social practice, policy, and grassroots organizing with:

🌊 Duke Riley, the artist behind “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash” 🌳 Kizzy Charles-Guzman of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice 🍂 Larissa Belcic of Nocturnal Medicine 🌎 Michelle Shofet of Nocturnal Medicine 🌱 Ajay Singh Chaudhary of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Get your ticket to #BkMTalks or learn more about #DukeRileyBkM: https://bit.ly/3TFGkAX

Wrap yourself in the breathtaking landscapes and rhythms of northern Florida.

Allison Janae Hamilton’s “A House Called Florida” is a three-channel film installation depicting the artist’s home region. In it, the artist references French Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar’s 1946 short story “Casa Tomada” (“House Taken Over”) about ghosts that slowly take over a home and eventually push out its owners, room by room. Hamilton’s film pays tribute to the Black Floridians who remained in the Red Hills and Forgotten Coast regions, despite the racial violence and environmental precariousness they faced throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Delve deeper into the Great Migration and its complex impact with three of the artists featured in the exhibition—Akea Brionne, Leslie Hewitt, and Robert Pruitt— during Brooklyn Talks on May 18. Get your ticket, which includes after-hours access to #GreatMigrationBkM, at the link below.

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Now Open… Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon. 

Chinese zodiac signs, Taoist symbols, cowboy hats, and American flags are amongst some of the artist’s “Chinese cowboy” iconography that you’ll find in the exhibition. Each of which aids in highlighting the limitations of the term “Asian American.”

Throughout his paintings, yi Hou depicts subjects who, like him, are part of creative, queer, Asian, and diasporic communities. This particular painting, entitled “birds of a feather flock together, aka: A New Family Portrait,” inspired the 50-square-foot mural on the façade of UOVO’s facility in Bushwick. Two of the subjects in this work—Oscar yi Hou and Amanda Ba—along with the artist Sasha Gordon, will celebrate the opening of this exhibition through a conversation moderated by curator Eugenie Tsai on October 20 at 7 pm to discuss their creative relationships and their varied approaches to figuration.

Get your tickets to #BkMTalks and learn more about #OscaryiHouBkM: https://bit.ly/34QgwKI

Allow us to help you come out of hibernation. 🌱

Save your spot for these upcoming events (and more). 

How can we visualize the extraordinary loss of life caused by COVID-19?

Media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, whose work is on view in our special exhibition “A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial,” is joined by architect Sekou Cooke and Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab, to discuss the ways in which art and design facilitate spaces for mourning and cultural trauma.

Join us for #BkMTalks on May 26 at 7 pm. ASL interpretation will be provided. Event information and tickets are available here: https://bit.ly/3MHyqDF

This Thursday, April 14 at 7 pm, we will be joined by Guadalupe Maravilla, Lady Quesa, and Pastor Juan Carlos Ruiz for an exciting #BkMTalks on art, healing, and immigrant communities.

🗣️ Guadalupe Maravilla, artist dedicated to healing through sculpture, drawing, painting, choreography, sound, and performance whose work is currently on view in “Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven”

✨ Lady Quesa, staple of the Brooklyn drag scene, regularly hosts the Yas Mama party at C’mon Everybody, and is supervisor of arts programming at youth development organization The Door

⛪ Juan Carlos Ruiz, pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Bay Ridge and, during the pandemic, collaborated frequently with Maravilla on mutual aid efforts including food distribution and sound baths

This program will include ASL and Spanish interpretation. Tickets are $16 ($14 for Members) and include after-hours access to #GuadalupeMaravillaBkM.

Nona Faustine’s photographs excavate and respond to forgotten, erased, and unacknowledged histories of systemic racism in the United States. Documenting herself in places across New York where history becomes tangible while donning a pair of white high-heeled shoes, Faustine acts as a conduit or receptor, in solidarity with people whose names and memories have been lost but are embedded in the land.

Next Friday at 7 pm, Faustine's new book White Shoes is the center of conversation at #BkMTalks alongside collaborators Jessica Lanay, Pamela Sneed, and Seph Rodney. Be a part of the conversation – get your ticket.

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