2–3:30 pm Online Visitors from the D/deaf community are invited to experience our collection in an American Sign Language (ASL) tour, led by a Deaf teaching artist. This tour is in ASL only, without voice interpretation. This month, discover the designs of Thierry Mugler, a fashion...
Presented in partnership with ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York Imagined TouchDir. Jodee Mundy OAM, Sofya Gollan(Documentary, British Sign Language/English, Australia, 2021, 33 min)International Premiere When two deafblind women ask a theater director to help them make a show about being deaf and blind, never in...
Honor worldwide movements for freedom and liberation while celebrating the creative collectives, partnerships, and chosen families that illuminate Brooklyn’s vibrant Asian diasporas. This program is free; registration is required and includes Museum general admission. Tickets are released on a rolling basis. Sign up for the Brooklyn Museum newsletter to be...
7–9 pm Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor Join fashion pioneer Aurora James for a conversation in celebration of her new memoir, Wildflower. Named one of Harper’s Bazaar’s most anticipated books of 2023, Wildflower follows James’s journey from her tumultuous young womanhood to eventually creating her own...
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor Explore the practices of three artists featured in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration in this conversation with Akea Brionne, Leslie Hewitt, Robert Pruitt, and exhibition curator Kimberli Gant. Akea Brionne is an interdisciplinary researcher...
Heralded by no less than Hamilton’s Lin-Manuel Miranda as “the next big thing,” the Mexican composer-director Jaime Lozano has quickly become recognized as a major force in contemporary musical theater. Broadway en Spanglish is a collaborative, multi-lingual musical cabaret review performed with his talented wife and creative partner, the...
This tour, led by an NYBG Tour Guide and accompanied by an American Sign Language interpreter, gives visitors an enhanced experience through the Garden landscape to learn more about Japanese maples, Tanyosho pines, and other trees native to Asia at The New York Botanical Garden....
Explore large-scale photographic portraits featured in the exhibition Richard Avedon: MURALS together with teaching artists Debra Cole and Hollie Ecker. Then, go behind-the-scenes with Eileen Travell, Senior Photographer in The Met’s Imaging Department—and Avedon’s former student—to learn about her work, and to create your own photographic portrait. For...
2–3:30 pm Online Individuals with memory loss and their care partners are invited to experience our collection together in this interactive tour with Museum staff. Each program offers an opportunity to gather online and enjoy conversation, works of art, and one another’s company. This month, unpack...
Celebrate the 2023 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees, alongside their selectors, at a first-ever public ceremony, featuring readings from the writers’ debut works and a conversation with the authors. In 2006, the National Book Foundation established the 5 Under 35 prize to recognize...