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Next 7 days, November 26 - December 02, 2009

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November 26, Thursday
Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
Nov 26, 8:00 PM at The Bell House
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 181 more times thru May 26

This year's festival will take place at the Bell House from September 17 through the 20th. Stay tuned for special announcements and ticket links!

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8:00 PM

The Bell House
149 7th Street,
Brooklyn, NY, 11215
(718) 643-6510
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November 27, Friday
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 30 more times thru Jan 10

When video emerged as a new medium in the early 1970s, feminist artists embraced it as a way to explore issues related to their own bodies, experiences, and identities. The rather straightforward capture of the artist performing (usually alone) in front of a stationary camera served as an avenue to investigate desire, autonomy, and selfhood. Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video p read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Fare Collection
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at New York Transit Museum
0.86 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 151 more times thru May 22

An exhibit on Fare Collection shows representative examples of various types of collection devices used throughout the subway system's history. Visitors may interact with these devices for a uniquely tactile retrospective experience. The exhibit features the first paper ticket-choppers used in 1904, later turnstile designs that accepted coins and tokens, the MetroCard turnstile currently in operat read more...

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10:00 AM

New York Transit Museum
Boerum Pl. & Schermenhorn Street,
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 694-4915
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Moving The Millions: New York City's Subways From Its Origins To The Present
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at New York Transit Museum
0.86 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 151 more times thru May 22

On the platform level, Moving the Millions: New York City's Subways from its Origins to the Present provides visitors with an overview of the magnitude and complexity of New York City's rapid transit system. The exhibition uses historical photographs, diagrams, cartoons, period maps, and newspaper clippings to illustrate major issues and events that influenced the development of the largest transp read more...

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10:00 AM

New York Transit Museum
Boerum Pl. & Schermenhorn Street,
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 694-4915
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On The Streets: New York's Trolleys And Buses
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at New York Transit Museum
0.86 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 151 more times thru May 22

A gallery dedicated to surface transportation presents, in nine complementing segments, a history of above ground mobility for the last 175 years – from the early 1800s through the 21st Century. The central element of the exhibition On the Streets: New York's Trolleys and Buses is a simulated traffic intersection complete with traffic lights and coordinated walk-don't walk signs, parking meters, f read more...

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10:00 AM

New York Transit Museum
Boerum Pl. & Schermenhorn Street,
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 694-4915
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Steel, Stone & Backbone: Building New York's Subways 1900-1925
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at New York Transit Museum
0.86 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 151 more times thru May 22

This ever-popular exhibition presents a look at the building of New York City's first subway line, various construction methods, and the people who built it. The exhibition features pictures taken over 100 years ago during construction, along with historical artifacts and period videos. The faces of the workers and images of the birth of the subway evoke a sense of awe and appreciation for the ded read more...

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10:00 AM

New York Transit Museum
Boerum Pl. & Schermenhorn Street,
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 694-4915
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The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at New York Transit Museum
0.86 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 151 more times thru May 22

Examining the legacy of Robert Moses, this exhibition focuses on the Triborough Bridge, now renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, designed and built to connect three boroughs and accommodate New York's burgeoning auto traffic. Enjoy illustrated family exhibit labels! Kid-friendly pictures and diagrams explain the operation and maintenance of bridges to the littlest engineers.

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10:00 AM

New York Transit Museum
Boerum Pl. & Schermenhorn Street,
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 694-4915
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Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival
Nov 27, 8:00 PM at The Bell House
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 180 more times thru May 26

This year's festival will take place at the Bell House from September 17 through the 20th. Stay tuned for special announcements and ticket links!

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8:00 PM

The Bell House
149 7th Street,
Brooklyn, NY, 11215
(718) 643-6510
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21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

More than forty works from the Brooklyn Museum’s expanding collection of contemporary art goes on long-term view in 5,000 square feet of space newly renovated for this purpose. With contemporary works ranging from Andy Warhol’s Fragile Dress (1966) to Mickalene Thomas’s A Little Taste Outside of Love (2007), 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum focuses primarily on work prod read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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American Identities: A New Look
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics, and textiles) ranging in date from the colonial period to the present. For the first time, major objects from these exceptional collections are joined by selections from the Museum's importan read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred masterpieces from these extraordinary holdings, representing China, Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas, and the Islamic world. The Chinese gallery at the Museum features mo read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Assyrian Reliefs
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

These twelve massive carved alabaster panels, on view together for the first time, dominate the walls of the Brooklyn Museum's Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art. Originally brightly painted, they once adorned the vast palace of King Ashur-nasir-pal II (883–859 B.C.), one of the greatest rulers of ancient Assyria. Completed in 879 B.C. at the site of Kalhu (modern Nimrud, slight read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Decorative Arts Galleries
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th century. Interspersed with the period rooms are galleries that display an outstanding collection of American furniture, silver, pewter, glass, and ceramics. Additional objects from the decorative read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been completed in 1993 to tell the story of Egyptian art from its earliest known origins (circa 3500 B.C.) until the period when the Romans incorporated Egypt into their empire (30 B.C.–A.D. 395). Additio read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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European Paintings
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by devoting each wall to an exploration of the meaningful connections that the works display when arranged according to theme. The section called “Painting Land and Sea” surveys the formal methods that read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 60 more times thru Feb 21

This exhibition honors the gift of twenty-one pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-reared modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982), primarily from Charles Russell, Smith’s companion and heir. The presentation of Art Smith jewelry is enhanced by archival material from the artist’s estate, such as sketches, the original shop sign, Smith’s tools, and period photographs of mo read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Patricia Cronin
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 40 more times thru Jan 24

In this solo exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center, Brooklyn-based artist Patricia Cronin presents watercolors illustrating the work of the nineteenth-century American expatriate sculptor Harriet Hosmer. Hosmer defied expected roles for female artists of her day and yet achieved an uncommon level of success. However, today she is remembered only by a relatively s read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Replica of the Statue of Liberty
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

The Brooklyn Museum has completed conservation work on its "little" Lady Liberty, a thirty-foot replica of the Bedloe's Island Statue of Liberty. The historic statue, which once adorned the Liberty Warehouse in Manhattan, is part of the Museum's permanent collection of New York City architectural pieces. Perhaps no American symbol is more widely recognized or powerfully expressive than "Liberty read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Rodin: The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion. This newly excerpted presentation of the Museum's large holdings by Rodin includes The Age of Bronze, a signature conception from the early years of the sculptor's career, as well as other works from his most significant commissions, including read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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Small Wonders from the American Collections
Nov 27, 10:00 AM at Brooklyn Museum
1.07 miles from Fort Greene - Occurs 127 more times thru May 28

This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ? Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the Museum’s collections. Since its opening in January 2005, the Luce Visible Storage ? Study Center has housed approximately 2,100 objects in two types of storage units: vitrined cases and paintings sc read more...

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10:00 AM

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway,
Brooklyn, NY, 11238
(718) 638-5000
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