CURRENT EXHIBITS [341]

A forum and test site for new ideas, BRONX LAB engages audiences in topics relevant to our surrounding communities. Through different social media platforms as well as hands-on activities, viewers will be asked to interact with the exhibition's main themes and exercise their critical views. Drawing primarily from the Museum's permanent collection, BRONX LAB's first exhibition will look at the explo...   [more]

Body Parts features thirty-five objects that represent individual body parts in ancient Egyptian art from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, many of which will be displayed for the first time. While traditional exhibitions of ancient art focus on reconstructing damaged works, this exhibition uses fragmentary objects to illuminate the very realistic depiction of individual body parts in canonical...   [more]

This exhibition highlights the nearly fifty-year career of ceramicist Edward Lycett (American, 1833–1910), creative director of the Faience Manufacturing Company from 1884 to 1890. The range of works illustrates Lycett’s talent and adaptability to stylistic changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as his vision for Faience, a company based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, th...   [more]

Opening: May 3rd, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This exhibition is devoted to examining the defining impact Lucy R. Lippard’s groundbreaking book Six Years had on the emergent Conceptual art movement. Published in 1973, Six Years simultaneously catalogued and described the development of conceptual art practices in the late sixties and early seventies, and is now widely considered an essential reference work for the period. Using the book’s c...   [more]

Opening: September 14th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The second season of Raw/Cooked presents a series of four exhibitions by under-the-radar Brooklyn artists who have been invited by the Brooklyn Museum with support from Bloomberg to show their first major museum exhibitions. The artists are given the opportunity to work with the Museum’s collection and to display in spaces of their choosing, however unconventional. The four artists in the series were...   [more]

Opening: November 16th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Brooklyn is home to more artists than anywhere else in the United States, making it the creative capital of the art world. GO: a community-curated open studio project is a borough-wide initiative designed to foster personal exchange between Brooklyn-based artists, their communities, and the Brooklyn Museum.   During GO, 1,708 Brooklyn-based artists opened their studios to the community on September...   [more]

Opening: December 1st, 2012   11:00 AM - 11:00 PM

The seventh exhibition in the Raw/Cooked series, titled Supple Beat, presents the work of Gowanus-based artist Marela Zacarias. Recommended by Ramírez Jonas, Zacarias has created four site-specific sculptural works inspired by the Williamsburg Murals, uniting her interests in abstract forms, the history of objects, and urban renewal. Her large-scale pieces appear to be climbing the walls of the Mus...   [more]

Opening: February 1st   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic traditions from his birth country, Ghana; his home in...   [more]

Opening: February 8th   10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Silvio Wolf was born in Milan in 1952, where he lives and works. He studied Philosophy and Psychology in Italy and Photography and Visual Arts in London, where he received the Higher Diploma in Advanced Photography at the London College of Printing. From 1977 to 1987 he used photography to explore the laws, language and two-dimensional nature of the image. His work has moved in directions different fr...   [more]

Opening: January 10th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Bureau is pleased to open 2013 with the exhibition Monsalvat, a project conceived by collaborators Andrea Merkx and Nathan Gwynne. With the work of over fifty contributors, the gallery will be transformed into a group exhibition-cum-music-video set to be used for periodic filming throughout the show. Monsalvat is the first installment by Merkx & Gwynne in their sprawling series King Arthur Rock Opera,...   [more]

An exhibition of new works by Korakrit Arunanondchai   [more]

Callicoon Fine Arts is very pleased to present a three-person exhibition that includes new works by Sadie Benning, Thomas Kovachevich and Dona Nelson. While all three artists are painters, their practices are informed by sculpture, performance, music and other time-based mediums. The three artworks that make up the exhibition articulate the experience of time as tied to perception, the individual co...   [more]

Opening: January 13th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“I don’t portray anything, I paint.” Giorgio Griffa, 1973 Casey Kaplan is pleased to announce FRAGMENTS 1968 – 2012, an exhibition of new and historical paintings by Giorgio Griffa (b. 1936, Torino, Italy). Spanning four decades of Griffa’s career, this is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in New York since 1970, as well as his first in the US since 1973. The exhibition...   [more]

Opening: January 10th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Interwoven December 14, 2012 – March 3, 2013 A Group Exhibition and Grand Opening celebration of Warren Lewis Sotheby’s International Realty Williamsburg   Warren Lewis Sotheby’s International Realty in collaboration with Causey Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present Interwoven, a group exhibition of gallery artists. The opening reception of this salon show will also mark the grand opening of...   [more]

Opening: December 14th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

This exhibition of Kevin Bourgeois' mixed media drawings is being co-sponsored by Nest Seekers International and is held at their offices located at 578 Driggs Ave. ( corner of N. 6 St. ) in Brooklyn, NY 11211   [more]

Opening: March 9th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Hidden Camera: Bahar Behbahani February 7 – March 3, 2013 Large-scale paintings from the artist’s My Faantazee series presented at Causey Contemporary  DUMBO location Brooklyn, NY - Causey Contemporary gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Hidden Camera by Bahar Behbahani. The exhibition, which will feature a selection of Behbahani's Mixed media paintings from her My Faantazee s...   [more]

Opening: February 7th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM