Talks
Learning Session: Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Saturday, February 2, 2019 6–7 pm
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed hosts a discussion inspired by Octavia Butler’s idea of “primitive hypertext” and sparked by a word, a work of art, and a fragment of text from Rasheed’s current explorations in archives, scores, and time. 30 free tickets in Auditorium line at Admissions at 5 pm.
Tour: Archives as Raw History
Saturday, February 2, 2019 6–7 pm
Libraries and Archives, 2nd Floor
Delve into the Museum’s history during the age of Black Power with archivist Molly Seegers. Go behind the scenes, see archival storage, and examine original documents related to historical exhibitions that featured work by local Black artists. 20 free tickets at Admissions at 5 pm.
Artist Talk: Lineage
Saturday, February 2, 2019 6–7 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Celebrate the launch of Shani Jamila’s new podcast Lineage with artists Ming Smith and Russell Fredrick of the Kamoinge Collective, a photography group founded during the Black Power movement which is still active today. 330 free tickets in Auditorium line at Admissions at 5 pm.
Teen Pop-Up Gallery Talks
Saturday, February 2, 2019 6:30–7:30 pm
Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th and 5th Floors
Teen Apprentices host ten-minute talks about works on view in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.
Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), born Billings, Montana, 1981). Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014, from the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation. Pigment print on paper, from digitally reproduced and artist-manipulated photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., TL2018.8.1a–b. © Wendy Red Star. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum)
Artist Talk: Wendy Red Star
Sunday, February 24, 2019 2–3 pm
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
Artist Wendy Red Star discusses her work, on view in our special exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection.
Guerrilla Girls (established New York City, New York, 1985). Women in America Earn Only 2/3 of What Men Do., 1985. Offset lithograph, 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Gift of Guerrilla Girls BroadBand, Inc., 2017.26.6. © Guerrilla Girls. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum)
Art History Happy Hour
Thursday, March 7, 2019 7–9 pm
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
Come by for wine, beer, and fun art history lectures in celebration of Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection.
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Film: Rafiki
Thu, January 24, 2019
7–9 pm
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F.A.M. (Family Art Magic)
Sun, January 27, 2019
11 am–12:15 pm and 1:30–2:45 pm
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Music: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber 20th Anniversary
Thu, January 31, 2019
7–9 pm
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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
Sat, February 2, 2019
5–11 pm
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St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble: Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Sun, February 10, 2019
2–4 pm
