In celebration of its 100th anniversary, The Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA) is sponsoring “Brooklyn in Prints: A Special Gathering,” a curated exhibit featuring rare and unusual prints and images tracing the history of the borough from its farmland days to the 21st century.
This exhibit, which will be held at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), will be open to the public for two weeks from Saturday, February 27 until Sunday, March 14. An opening night reception and gallery talk will
The Brooklyn Lyceum, at 227 4th Ave. in Park Slope, will host the inaugural Brooklyn Chess Championship on Feb. 27 and 28, according to Bay Ridge Journal. The tournament will be co-produced by International Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, a Park slope {read more...}
Chase away the winter blues at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, with an hour-long wintertime walk conducted by Lynne Spevack, LCSW, a licensed psychotherapist and veteran Brooklyn Botanic Garden tour guide.
According to BBG’s web site, exposure to daylight, even on
Clark Gable combined with a warm chocolate fondant cake just might make for the perfect Valentine’s Day. This February 14, BAM Rose Cinemas will be showing one of the great screwball romantic comedies, It Happened One Night (1934), directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. The first film to sweep all five major Oscars (Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress), It Happened One Night follows spoiled rich
ART 101: 101 Grand St., between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com. Chester Nielsen: “California Houses.” Through Feb. 28. The exhibition documents a year of study of the form embodied in the phenomena of Christmas lights on Californians’ homes.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org. “Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864.” Through Oct. 17. This exhibition presents a selection of artworks and historical objects
Target First Saturday at Brooklyn Museum: This Saturday’s (Feb. 6) event will include jazz band The Igmar Thomas Group, performances by the Impact Repertory Theatre, a chance to create your own wearable art inspired by Nick Cave’s Soundsuit (one of {read more...}
ART 101: 101 Grand St., between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com. Chester Nielsen: “California Houses.” Through Feb. 28. The exhibition documents a year of study of the form embodied in the phenomena of Christmas lights on Californians’ homes.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org. “Who Shot Rock & Roll, A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present.” Through Jan. 31. An exhibition of more than 175 works by 105
Yes, there are female comic book artists. Thus, the Brooklyn Public Library is hosting a panel on the subject with artists Jessica Abel (Drawing Words & Writing Pictures; La Perdida), Gabrielle Bell (Cecil and Jordan in New York; Stories) and {read more...}
This is a few weeks away, but deserves early announcement. On Thursday, Feb. 11 BookCourt will welcome Don DeLillo to give the first public reading from his new novel Point Omega, set to be released on Feb. 2. The acclaimed author of 15 novels, most notably White Noise and Underworld, DeLillo is a National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee. Point Omega tells the story of a filmmaker who seeks out the desert home of a secret war {read more...}
This Saturday, Jan. 30, the Brooklyn Green Team will celebrate its second anniversary with an 80s-themed party at Bar Reis on 375 Fifth Ave. in Park Slope. For a $10 cover charge, sample local and organic drink specials and participate in a silent auction. Items in the silent auction include a gift certificate to Park Slope restaurant Aunt Suzie's, a $100 gift certificate to Green Apple Cleaners, a nature photograph donated by Green Team founder Amanda Gentile, a “greenmarket” basket {read more...}
ART 101: 101 Grand St., between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com. Chester Nielsen: “California Houses.” Jan. 22–Feb. 28. The exhibition documents a year of study of the form embodied in the phenomena of Christmas lights on Californians’ homes.
BROOKLYN MUSEUM: 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000 or www.brooklynmuseum.org. “Who Shot Rock & Roll, A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present.” Through Jan. 31. An exhibition of more than 175 works by 105
Enjoy “wine-addled, text-based hilarity” at Greenlight Bookstore’s monthly literary humor series, Steamboat, held the third Thursday of every month. On Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m., they will host a Daily Show producer, a writer for 30 Rock and a middle-school {read more...}
MIDWOOD — Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College proudly presents the Tony Award-winning musical Hairspray on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 3 p.m.
It’s time to let your hair down and dance the night away! Hairspray, Broadway’s musical
A.M. RICHARD FINE ART: 328 Berry St., Williamsburg. (917) 570-1476 or www.amrichardfineart.com. Modern and Contemporary Ceramics. Extended through Jan. 10. Group exhibition of works by Devin Dougherty, Steve Keister, Elizabeth Kley and George Schneeman.
ART 101: 101 Grand St., between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg. (718) 302-2242 or www.art101brooklyn.com. Chester Nielsen. Jan. 22–Feb. 28.
BROOKLYN ARTISTS GYM: 168 Seventh St., between Second and Third avenues. (718) 858-9069 or brooklynartistsgym.com. “Programmed.” Opening Jan. 15.
A multi-media exhibition of photographs, words and video documenting the people of Tivoli Towers, a 35-year-old apartment building in Crown Heights, will open at the Brooklyn Historical Society on February 11.
Tivoli is located in a neighborhood that once suffered harshly
