Brooklyn Museum: Calendar: Talks

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.

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.

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.

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Talks

Symposium: God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin SOLD OUT

Brooklyn Reads: Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt with Brontez Purnell

Brooklyn Talks: Miss Major

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