The Brooklyn Museum is globally recognized for its extensive collection and iconic building. The new logo speaks to this ...

In 1903, Sir Arthur Evans, excavating at the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, discovered fragments of faience statuettes depicting female figures holding snakes. Two of these statuettes were ...

Margaret Sanger was an activist who pioneered the fight for American reproductive freedom in the early 20th century. She was born Margaret Louise Higgins, in Corning, New York, to a large Catholic ...

Ethel Smyth was a twentieth-century British composer and a champion of women’s rights and female musicians. During her lifetime, she composed symphonies, choral works (musical pieces written for a ...

Susan B. Anthony’s life and work offer a glimpse into the extraordinary events of both the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century. Anthony was the face ...

Since 2015, Anne Pasternak has served as the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest fine arts institutions in the nation. For more than thirty years, ...

Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Heritage Floor; detail), 1974–79. Porcelain with rainbow and gold luster, 48 x 48 x 48 ft. (14.6 x 14.6 x 14.6 m ...

Elizabeth Catlett. Black Unity, 1968. Cedar. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.11. © 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at ...

Shelley Lowell was born in the Bronx, NY in 1946. She studied Advertising Design & Visual Communications at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, graduating with a BFA. She has maintained two parallel art ...

South African artist Berni Searle works with photography, video and film to produce lens-based installations that stage narratives connected to history, memory and place. Her work was included in the ...

Virginia Woolf is a renowned British novelist associated with the modernist movement in literature; her writing is characterized by experiments in language, narrative, and the treatment of time. Woolf ...

Axiomatic drawing of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in relation to the layout of the Brooklyn Museum. © Polshek Partnership Architects The ...