nyc42.lol The Brooklyn Museum sets out its autumn
A museum programme is usually a list. This one is an argument — the Brooklyn Museum has put manga and European modernism in the same building on the same weekend, and dared anyone to say which is the serious half.
The Great Hall goes to manga
Art of Manga runs 3 October to 31 January 2027 and is making its East Coast debut. It gathers original manga artwork, including pieces connected to Inuyasha, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers and One Piece.
That is original artwork, which is the part worth registering. Manga is consumed as print and screen, so almost nobody has seen the drawn page — the pencil under the ink, the correction, the hand.
Running beside it in the same Great Hall, on exactly the same dates, is Manga Before Manga: Japanese Art from the Collection, which digs into the historical roots of the form. Hanging the two together turns a fan show into an art-historical claim: that the visual grammar is centuries older than the medium.
Fifty-plus European masterpieces
Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection opens 2 October and runs to 18 April 2027, with more than 50 European masterpieces.
These are gifts, not loans — work entering the collection. A loan show is a visit; a gift show is the museum telling you what it will look like for the next fifty years.
The rest of it, which is not filler
Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World (2 October – 27 June 2027) examines the kachina doll tradition through the perspective of Hopi girls and women — the people the tradition is actually addressed to, which is not how these objects are usually framed in a museum case.
Michael Richards: Free F’All (11 September – 6 June 2027) occupies the lobby. It honours the history of the Tuskegee Airmen and remembers the artist, who died on 11 September 2001. It is free to walk past and impossible to walk past.
Mika Ninagawa: Feel the Flow(ers) arrives in October at the Toby Devan Lewis Education Center. And Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses is still up, through 6 December — couture that behaves like sculpture.
Why the dates matter more than the list
Two of these run into next summer, three close in the winter, and van Herpen closes first. The only weekend on which the whole programme above is simultaneously on the walls falls between 3 October and 6 December.
That is the window, and it is the reason to read a season announcement in August.
The Brooklyn Museum is the second-largest art museum in New York and the one most often skipped by a visitor with one weekend, because the Met and MoMA are closer to where they are already standing. Six concurrent shows with nothing in common is the argument for the subway ride — and the 2/3 to Eastern Parkway puts you at the door, not near it.
Source: Time Out New York checked against the source
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