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Calendar: Saturday, July 4, 2009





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Target First Saturday

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The Brooklyn Museum's popular program of free music and entertainment from 5 to 11 p.m. on the first Saturday of each month.
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Museum Guide tour

2 p.m.
Meet in the Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor

A Museum Guide leads a free tour titled "Art of the WPA" in the exhibition American Identities.
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Museum Guide tour

3 p.m.
Meet in the Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor

A Museum Guide leads a free tour in the exhibition Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea.
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On View

Yinka Shonibare MBE

June 26, 2009–September 20, 2009
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

March 27, 2009–July 5, 2009
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor

Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video

May 1, 2009–January 10, 2010
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor

Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam

June 5, 2009–September 6, 2009
2nd Floor

Patricia Cronin: "Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found"

June 5, 2009–January 24, 2010
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor

Sun K. Kwak: Enfolding 280 Hours

March 27, 2009–July 5, 2009
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 5th Floor

Tavares Strachan: The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project)

April 30, 2009–September 27, 2009
Norman M. Feinberg Entrance, Lobby South, 1st Floor

From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith

May 14, 2008–February 21, 2010
4th Floor

Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word, and Reality

December 22, 2006–October 18, 2009
Special Exhibitions Hall, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor

Upcoming Featured Event:
Film and Discussion: FIERCE and Global Action Project
Saturday, July 11, 2009
In conjunction with the exhibition Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video, community organizations screen their youth-produced films. FIERCE's Fenced OUT documents the struggle of queer youth of color to save the Christopher Street pier from redevelopment. Global Action Project's Crossed Lines, Three Queer Mice, and America’s Next Top Immigrant address the social pressures and gender expectations placed on teenagers. Post-screening discussion with organizations’ youth and staff follows.
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Upcoming Featured Event:
"Remembering Future Africa" Presented by New Africa Live and the Brooklyn Museum
Saturday, July 25, 2009
An afternoon of performances and film featuring established and emerging contemporary African artists working in music, film, and literature, in celebration of the exhibition Yinka Shonibare MBE. Highlights includes the film This Is My Africa (Zina Saro-Wiwa, UK/Nigeria, 2008, 50 minutes), about the Africa that exists in the hearts and minds of native and non-native individuals; a dramatized reading of contemporary texts presented by the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages; a gallery talk by celebrated performer and fashion designer Wunmi; as well as live music performances in the Sculpture Garden, including Rwandese electro-pop artist Iyadede and Sierra Leone’s reggae and hip hop ambassadors, Bajah and the Dry Eye Crew.

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