Brooklyn Museum’s American Art Reinstallation Will Center Black Feminist Artists

The cultural sea change at arts institutions has been visible in major and minor ways. But the Brooklyn Museum, which has fostered a strong connection to the diverse community in which it is located, will use its 200th anniversary this fall to make a major forward-looking statement about the role of museums in the 21st century. “This is a new era for museums and at the Brooklyn Museum we have been working really hard to meet the moment,” said Anne Pasternak, the museum’s director, during a media briefing Thursday at the museum’s restaurant, The Norm. That will include two landmark exhibits opening Oct. 4, and kicking off the museum’s yearlong anniversary celebration: “The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition” is a major group show highlighting the borough’s artists and curated by a committee that includes artists Jeffrey Gibson, Vik Muniz, Mickalene Thomas and Fred Tomaselli; and a major reinstallation of the museum’s American Art galleries foregrounding Black feminist artists and BIPOC perspectives and led by Stephanie Sparling Williams, the museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art. The museum, which first opened its doors in October 1824, will roll out numerous additional exhibits and initiatives throughout its anniversary year: “Museum on Wheels” (July) is

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