Glenn Ligon (American, born 1960). [Untitled] (Crowd/The Fire Next Time), 2000. Screenprint with coal crystals on paper, 12 × 18 1/8 in. (30.5 × 46 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Alfred T. White Fund, 2000.56. © Glenn Ligon, Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Symposium: God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin SOLD OUT
Saturday, December 9, 2023 2–8:30 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium and Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
In-person tickets to this program are sold out. Register to attend the talks on YouTube! Celebrate the publication of God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, edited by acclaimed writer and cultural critic Hilton Als, at a symposium exploring Baldwin’s far-reaching legacy.
Brontez Purnell. (Photo: by Melissa Dale Neal, courtesy of Brontez Purnell)
Brooklyn Reads: Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt with Brontez Purnell
Thursday, February 15, 2024 7–9 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Celebrate the book release of Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt with Brontez Purnell, author, dancer, performance artist, zine-maker, and frontperson for the band the Younger Lovers.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. (Photo: courtesy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Toshio Meronek)
Brooklyn Talks: Miss Major
Thursday, April 4, 2024 7–9 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy—a Stonewall Riots leader, transgender activist, and former sex worker—reads from her memoir, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary.