As the Brooklyn Museum reaches a landmark birthday, it's celebrating with an exhibit called "Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200." The show is broken into three chapters featuring works that span time, geography and medium while highlighting Brooklyn's artistic communities.
The first chapter—Brooklyn Made—pays homage to the borough's artists and designers from the seventeenth century to today. This section features everything from a pair of Delaware Lenape youth moccasins to contemporary pieces by Duke Riley. The next section, titled Building the Museum and Its Collection features the history of the museum's famed building and explores how its collection has grown. Finally, Gifts of Art in Honor of the 200th showcases newly gifted pieces, including works by Robert Frank, Coco Fusco, Antony Gormley, Julie Mehretu, and Alex Katz.
The show will run for nearly a full year, from February 28, 2025–February 22, 2026.