David Bryne, Summer Olympics & More Slated for August Public Programs at Brooklyn Museum

By: Jul. 20, 2016
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The Brooklyn Museum will present a variety of programs for adults, teens, and kids in August. Public programs include talks, performances, and hands-on workshops for children and adults that amplify the Museum's exhibitions and Permanent Collection, serve its diverse public, and support learning through the visual arts.

Highlights include a live DJ set byJuliana Huxtable, DJ Hova, and DJ Busquelo; a twentieth-anniversary film screening of Space Jam; a conversation with David Byrne, Tom Healy, and Stephen Powers; and a Summer Olympics viewing party with pop-up talks in Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present.

The full schedule follows:

Thursday, August 4, 6-8 pm

Summer DJ Residencies: Juliana Huxtable

Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby, 1st Floor

Free as part of Thursday Nights hosted by Squarespace.

Juliana Huxtable mixes witchy cyborg beats on Tom Sachs's boom boxes. DJ Hova and DJ Busquelo will close the night in Tom Sachs's artworkBodega.

Thursday, August 4, 8 pm

Film: Space Jam

Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden, 1st Floor

Free as part of Thursday Nights hosted by Squarespace.

Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the animated cult classic Space Jam(Joe Pytka, 1996, 88 min.), which follows Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes characters in an outer space basketball game.

Thursday, August 4, 8 pm

Weird America: David Byrne and Stephen Powers in Conversation with Tom Healy

Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

Tickets are $16

Part of Thursday Nights hosted by Squarespace.

New Wave icon David Byrne and artist Stephen Powers join poet Tom Healy in a conversation on American oddness and eccentricity. The conversation takes place two weeks before the close of the exhibitionStephen Powers: Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull).

Thursday, August 11, 6-10 pm

Bodega Guest Clerks: Fortnight Institute

Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby, 1st Floor

Free as part of Thursday Nights hosted by Squarespace.

Fabiola Alondra and Jane Harmon of Fortnight Institute sell artist books and zines in Tom Sachs's Bodega, a combination artwork and working store in the Museum's glass pavilion.

Thursday, August 18, 6-10 pm

2016 Summer Olympics Viewing

Beaux Arts Court, 3rd Floor

Viewing is free as part of Thursday Nights hosted by Squarespace.

Admission to Who Shot Sports is $10 on Thursday Nights.

Join a Summer Olympics viewing party at the Brooklyn Museum. The viewing is accompanied by pop-up talks on memorable photos of past Olympic Games in Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present. Includes a cash bar with beer and wine.

Pictured: David Byrne. Photo by Catalina Kulczar.



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