Gallery Tour: A Few of Our Favorite Things
Thursday, October 20, 2022 1–2 pm
Meet in the Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor
Join one of our A.R.T. Guides for a free tour through our galleries. Our guides will share a few of their favorite artworks, and together we’ll explore what makes the Brooklyn Museum so unique. Free with Museum admission.
Installation view, Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech.” Brooklyn Museum, July 1, 2022–January 29, 2023. (Photo: Danny Perez, Brooklyn Museum)
Pop-Up Talks: Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech”
Thursday, October 20, 2022 2–3 pm
Great Hall, 1st Floor
Learn more about key artworks in the exhibition Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech” during these short talks led by our A.R.T. Guides. Each conversation is repeated every 15 minutes. Free with exhibition admission.
Folio from the “Blue Qur’an,” North Africa or Iraq (?), 9th–10th century. Ink, gold, and silver on indigo-dyed parchment. 11 3/16 × 15 in. (28.4 × 38.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Beatrice Riese, 1995.51a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Educator Open House: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World Reopening
Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:30–7:30 pm
Education Studios (1st Floor) and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium (3rd Floor)
Educators are invited to celebrate the full reopening of our Arts of Asia and the Islamic World galleries.
Oscar yi Hou (born Liverpool, UK, 1998). birds of a feather flock together, aka: A New Family Portrait, 2020. Oil on canvas, 61 × 43 in. (154.9 × 109.2 cm). Collection of Joe Mantello and Paul Marlow. © Oscar yi Hou. (Photo: Oscar yi Hou, courtesy of Carl Freedman Gallery)
Brooklyn Talks: Oscar yi Hou
Thursday, October 20, 2022 7–9 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Celebrate the opening of Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon with the artist and members of his creative community.