Brooklyn Museum

When three wild animals are found in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, everyone is disturbed except two children who know that the animals live in the painting, the Peaceable Kingdom, which is in the Brooklyn Museum.

The American painter and draftsman Jean-Michel Basquiatg (1960-1988) reanks among the most compelling personalities of recent art history. A self-taught artist from the New York underground, he at first made a living by selling paintged T-shirts and xeroxed collage postcards in downtown Manhattan. Having won some acclaim for his graffiti, Basquiat began exhibiting paintings and drawings as early as 1980...Inspired by music or by comic strips, Basquiat's...

First invited by Pierre-Auguste Renoir to the Italian Riviera in 1883, Monet over the next decades crafted several magnificent series of works, remarkably different from the paintings that had established his reputation in the North. Here, assembled for the first time in its entirety, is the audaciously colorful group of works that he executed on the Italian and French Rivieras in 1884 and 1888, and in Venice in 1908. Arresting in their stunning color,...

"Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first-ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features the artist's handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings. With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series...