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Bruce Lee 🤝 Tom of Finland

In the artwork shown here, Oscar yi Hou performs the role of Kato, the sidekick and valet of the protagonist in the 1960s television show “The Green Hornet.” The actor, Bruce Lee, insisted on portraying Kato as a masterful martial artist to counter his subservient role. In homage to Lee, and in reference to the homoerotic art of Tom of Finland, the artist portrays Kato as queerly hypermasculine, destabilizing our perceived notions of masculinity. 

See each of yi Hou’s 11, unique paintings as part of Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon through September 17. 

🎨 Oscar yi Hou (born Liverpool, UK, 1998). Cowboy Kato Coolie, aka: Bruce’s Bitch, 2021. Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 × 22 in. (71.4 × 55.9 cm). Private collection. © Oscar yi Hou. (Photo: Jason Mandella, courtesy of James Fuentes LLC)

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Come explore the symbolism in East Asian ceramics! 🫖

During the Teacher Workshop on April 19, we’ll observe objects in our Arts of Asia collection—from storage jars to offering vessels—before reimagining these forms and their decorations using coil-building techniques and self-hardening clay. No prior ceramic experience is necessary.

This program is free—just RSVP: http://bit.ly/40q5E1A

🎨 Ewer in the Shape of a Lotus, first half 12th century. Carved stoneware with underglaze slip decoration and celadon glaze. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Mrs. Darwin R. James III, 56.138.1a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum in collaboration with National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Daejon, Korea)

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Happy Diwali! ✨

The festival of Diwali celebrates the triumph of light over darkness. Families come together to light oil lamps and fireworks and everyone indulges in sweets and fried foods. Although he is not central to the holiday, the elephant-headed god Ganesha is often included in Diwali observances because he helps people to overcome obstacles in the coming year and because he is famously fond of the same sweets that are available in abundance during the holiday.

You can see this artwork on view on the newly reopened second floor of the Museum, entirely dedicated to the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World.

🎨 Indian. Ganesha, ca. 1775-1800. Opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 8 3/16 x 11 5/16 in. (20.8 x 28.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, 36.242 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #art #bkmartsofasia #BkMIslamicWorldArts #Diwali #ganesha #holiday #painting

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Two powerful pairs stand before you… 🐶🐯

Be it Hollywood film stills, zodiac symbols, or even Chinese and Japanese artworks from our collection, Oscar yi Hou’s process typically involves appropriating and transforming details from a broad range of source material. In the end, his central subjects are part of a collage-like composition of “Oriental” and “Western” imagery—descriptors the artist uses to highlight the perceived foreignness of people from East Asia. 

In yi Hou’s work, shown here, he references the late 18th-early 19th century nephrite jade object from our Asian Art collection. 

🎨 Oscar yi Hou (born Liverpool, UK, 1998). Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, aka: Bushwick Bleeding Hearts Club, 2022. Oil, acrylic, gouache on canvas, 46 × 28 in. (116.8 × 71.1 cm). Courtesy of the artist and James Fuentes, New York. © Oscar yi Hou. (Photo: Jason Mandella, courtesy of James Fuentes LLC)

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Oscar yi Hou’s artistic process often begins with a reference image. 

In this painting, for example, you can see the artist’s allusions to Wang Wen’s “Mountain Hermitage in Summer” from our Asian Art collection. Swipe to see close-up views of the Ming Dynasty details that yi Hou interpreted as part of his own work for this series, called “Coolieisms,” a title that points to the denigrated status that Americans assigned to East Asian immigrants as early as the nineteenth century.

Visit Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon through September 17.

🎨 Installation view, Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon, October 14, 2022 - September 17, 2023. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Danny Perez) → Wang Wen (Chinese, 1497-1576). Mountain Hermitage in Summer, 16th century. Hanging scroll, ink on paper, overall: 93 x 30 3/16 in., 35 in. with rollers. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the C. C. Wang Family Collection, 1997.185.8

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When school’s out, Summer Camp is in! 😎

Young artists ages 8–10 and 11–13 are in for a real artistic adventure with this summer’s schedule inspired by our exhibitions and collections:

✍️ July 3–7: Sculpture and animation inspired by DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash 🎨  July 31–August 4: Mixed media and photography inspired by Africa Fashion

Learn more about Summer Camp, including scholarship opportunities (available on a first-come, first-served basis) and save your spot: https://bit.ly/summercampbkm 

📷 Brooklyn Museum summer camp, July 6, 2021 - August 13, 2021. Education studios. Brooklyn Museum (Photo: Jonathan Dorado)

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How many of our current exhibitions have you visited? ☝️, ✌️, 🖐️?⁠ ⁠ This weekend brings the addition of Jimmy DeSana: Submission, too! Find out more about what's on view and what's in store at the Brooklyn Museum: 

🔗 https://bit.ly/3rV2iDy

📷️ @tyger.ko, @juneo_panthong, @joelepore_artdirector, @alexmayhughes, @wxnli_, @iacaneda, @kyncamille

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What do each of these artworks have in common? They really grow on you. 🧔⁠ ⁠ We can't let #WorldBeardDay pass without sharing some of the glorious, global, and even ancient beards from our collection.

🖼️ Mountain Spirit (Sanshin), 19th century. Ink and color on silk, Image. Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund, 84.145 → Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906). William Cullen Bryant, 1866. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of A. Augustus Healy, Carll H. de Silver, Eugene G. Blackford, Clarence W. Seamans, Horace J. Morse, Robert B. Woodward, James R. Howe, William B. Davenport, Frank S. Jones, Abraham Abraham, and Charles A. Schieren, 01.1507 → Roman. Head of Serapis, 75-150 C.E. Marble. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1522E. Creative Commons-BY → Ramses II, ca. 1279-1213 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 11.670. Creative Commons-BY → Makonde artist. Mask (lipiko), 19th century. Wood, human hair, fiber, pigment. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1922, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 22.1588. Creative Commons-BY → Indian. Zumurrud Shah Takes Refuge in the Mountains, ca. 1570. Opaque watercolor and gold on cotton cloth, sheet. Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 24.48

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #art #sculpture #painting #bkmamericanart #bkmartsofasia #bkmartsofafrica #beard

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🥁 Drumroll, please… 🥁

Reopening on September 30: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World. For the first time in forty years, over 700 newly conserved and rare works of art will have permanent space on our second floor.

From Arts of Himalayas to Arts of Korea; textiles to carvings, the objects in our collection highlight diverse aesthetic, creative, social, and intellectual accomplishments across Asia and around the Mediterranean. We look forward to welcoming you to the second floor this fall to explore art from ancient times to present day. #BkMArtsofAsia #BkMIslamicWorldArts

📷: Portrait of Taglung Thangpa Chenpo. Tibet, early to mid-14th century. Opaque watercolor, gold on cotton. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of the Asian Art Council, 1991.86. ​​→ Mirror Case, Iran, Qajar period, H. 1262 / 1845 C.E. Lutf 'Ali Suratgar Shirazi (active 1802-71). Lacquered papier-mâché, silvered glass, leather, closed. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, 36.940. → Portrait of Maharaja Jaswant Singh II of Marwar. Northern India (Rajasthan, Jodhpur), circa 1880. Opaque watercolor, gold on paper. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Poster, 87.234.6. → Pair of Boy Attendants. Korea, Joseon dynasty, 18th century with later coats of paint. Polychromed wood, 83.174.1. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Wallace, 83.174.1-.2. → Dish Depicting a Dragon Amongst Foliage. China, Ming dynasty, Jiajing mark and period, 1522–66. Carved cinnabar lacquer on wood. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Patricia Falk, from the Collection of Pauline B. and Myron S. Falk, Jr., 2003.30. → Robe. Northern Japan, Ainu culture, 19th century. Cotton and silk. Brooklyn Museum Collection, 12.751. → Bodhisattva with a Fly Whisk. Indonesia (central Java), 9th century. Volcanic stone. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Georgia and Michael de Havenon, 85.215.4. → Head and Torso of a Buddha. Thailand, Sukhothai period, clast half of 14th–first half of 15th century. Bronze. Brooklyn Museum; Purchased with funds given by the Charles Bloom Foundation, Inc., in memory of Mildred and Charles Bloom, 88.94.

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Now Open… Arts of Asia and the Islamic World. 🌏⛩️

“I want [visitors] to feel that these objects can talk to them, that they can relate to these things,” says former curator of Islamic Art, Ayşin Yoltar-Yildirim. “You can then see, well after all, this culture is not too foreign to me. I want to focus on what combines us.”

Displayed on the second floor of the Museum, the new permanent home for the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World creates cross-cultural dialogue amongst collections that haven’t been on view together in over ten years. Experience the encyclopedic scope and diversity of these galleries featuring the newly installed Arts of South Asia and Arts of the Islamic World.

Find out more about #BkMArtsofAsia and #BkMIslamicWorldArts. 

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We’re still celebrating. Now that the Arts of the Islamic World and Arts of South Asia galleries are reopened, we are leaning into the occasion for a night of music, dance, and poetry amplifying artists of the SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) diaspora.

Join us on November 5 at 5 pm for #FirstSaturdaysBkM. First Saturday is a free event, we just ask that you register in advance. Admission is subject to capacity at the time of arrival.⁠

🔗 https://bit.ly/3zSXy6r

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Next month we'll be unveiling a brand new gallery devoted to the arts of Buddhism. The installation will juxtapose artworks from various regions and periods, and feature nearly seventy objects from fourteen countries dating from the second century C.E. to the early 2000s. Many of the works are sculptural depictions of Buddhas, as well as ritual tools and ornaments made for Buddhist temples, a selection of paintings, and several of the Museum's master works. The gallery opens January 21, 2022, and is the latest in a series of new galleries for the Museum's Arts of Asia and the Islamic World collections.

Seated Buddha Shakyamuni, 965 or 1025. Gilt bronze. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Asian Art Council in memory of Mahmood T. Diba and Mary Smith Dorward Fund, 1999.42. Creative Commons-BY

#Bodhi tree #Bodhi Day #Buddhists #Buddha #arts of buddhism #Buddhism #brooklyn museum #bkmartsofasia #buddhist art #sculptural #tools #ritual #ornaments #temples #paintings

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The 2021 Lunar New Year season may be winding down, but you can continue celebrating and exploring Chinese art, history, and culture with our new Arts of China Teaching Toolkit. This free, online learning resource is designed for third-grade teachers and students and includes lesson plans, touch objects, and more.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ As we face a culturally and politically divisive climate, it's critical to connect students to the vast and diverse artistic and cultural traditions throughout the world. This resource enables students to enhance their empathetic and critical thinking by exploring how Chinese communities have used art to celebrate, interrogate, and document their relationships with the environment, spirituality, family, and individualism. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ We encourage teachers and students alike to challenge any stigmas, stereotypes, or false narratives that might exist about Chinese art, culture, and people—both past and present—through the use of this resource. Check out our digital lesson plans, or request a physical toolkit, today!

Hua Yan (Chinese, 1682-1765). Landscape [Detail], 1727. Ink and light color on paper. Brooklyn Museum, Anonymous gift, 80.119.1 ⇨ Yang Yongliang (Chinese, born 1980). On the Quiet Water - Underwater Paradise (止水之上 － 水下乐园), [Detail], 2008. Media inkjet print on paper, mounted as a hand scroll. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. Myron Arlen, Benjamin Faber, Dr. Ellen Pan, and Dr. John Tchang, by exchange, 2017.2. © artist or artist's estate

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