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The Many Shades of Ancient Egyptian Pigments

By Morgan E. Moroney

April 30, 2024

Which Hiroshige Print Are You—Based on Your Star Sign?

By Elizabeth Treptow and Katie Yee

April 25, 2024

How Do Photographers Know When an Image is Complete?

By Corinne Segal

April 17, 2024

How Visual Art Becomes Music: Niles Luther on Composing Hiroshige

By Corinne Segal

April 05, 2024

Groups’ Guide to the Brooklyn Museum

By Jessica Murphy

April 03, 2024

Kids and Families’ Guide to the Brooklyn Museum: Ages 7–11

By Dawn Ruhren and Lillian Young

March 26, 2024

An Astrology Lover’s Guide to the Brooklyn Museum Collection

By Elizabeth Treptow and Katie Yee

March 21, 2024

Reinvention and Rebirth: On the Kondō Family of Ceramicists’ Living Legacy

By Joan Cummins

March 14, 2024

Three Artists on Power, Citizenship, and Collective Imagination

By Corinne Segal

March 06, 2024

“Perform Everywhere,” and Other Advice for Emerging Slam Poets

By Corinne Segal

February 26, 2024

The Nature Lover’s Guide to the Brooklyn Museum

By Elizabeth Treptow and Corinne Segal

February 16, 2024

Mimeograph, Wite-Out, and Full-Frontal Nudity: On the Birth of Queercore Zines

By Drew Sawyer

February 01, 2024

Oscar yi Hou on The Arm Wrestle of Chip & Spike; aka: Star-Makers

By Corinne Segal

January 24, 2024

Why Are the Noses Broken on So Many Ancient Egyptian Statues?

By Elizabeth Treptow

January 02, 2024

Ask a Conservator: How Do You Handle Sensitive Materials?

By Kate Wight Tyler

December 22, 2023

The Dinner Party Today: Conversations on a Landmark Feminist Work

By Corinne Segal

December 08, 2023

When Artists Make Multiples, Which One is “Real”?

By Elizabeth Treptow

November 28, 2023

Hilton Als on James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, and Queer Connection

By Hilton Als

November 20, 2023

Zine Artists on Their Most Essential Tools

By Corinne Segal

November 16, 2023

How to Plan a Zine Project

By Neta Bomani

November 15, 2023

Spike Lee on a Dozen Prized Objects in His Collection

By Corinne Segal

October 26, 2023

On World-Making amid Contradiction and Crisis

By Suneil Sanzgiri

October 19, 2023

Ten Details That Shaped Do the Right Thing

By Abbey Lustgarten

October 12, 2023

Ask a Conservator: How Do You Become a Conservator?

By Celeste Mahoney

October 12, 2023

The Jazz Legends Who Shaped Spike Lee’s Musical World

By Indira A. Abiskaroon

October 05, 2023

Designer Tokyo James on Nigerian Style and Evolving Masculinity

By Corinne Segal

September 22, 2023

Ask a Conservator: What’s the Weirdest Work You’ve Ever Conserved?

By Lisa Bruno

September 14, 2023

How an Ancient Egyptian Blue Has Survived for Thousands of Years

By Elizabeth Treptow

September 07, 2023

The Intricate, High-Stakes World of Fine Arts Packing

By Corinne Segal

August 17, 2023

Dream Weavers: The Designers Revolutionizing African Textiles

By Karen Chung, illustrations by Rendani Nemakhavhani aka PR$DNT HONEY

August 10, 2023

Uncovering a Women’s History of African Indigo

By Catherine McKinley

July 13, 2023

Afrotopia: Looking at Afrofuturism in Fashion

By Christine Ajudua, photography by Ruby Okoro

June 22, 2023

How Jamel Shabazz Photographed the ‘Heartbeat of Brooklyn’

By Corinne Segal

May 31, 2023

Repair, Renew, Revise, Revise, Revise: Kiese Laymon on the Great Migration

By Kiese Laymon

May 15, 2023

Writers on How Museums Fuel Their Creative Work

By Corinne Segal

May 03, 2023