'Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective' to Wrap Up at Brooklyn Museum This Month

Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999-2016 closes at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, August 14.

Paying tribute to a defining symbol of street music culture, Tom Sachs transforms the Museum's Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion into a living sound system. The exhibition features eighteen works that highlight the artist's ability to inventively transform ordinary, everyday materials into art. The boom box sculptures are programmed with playlists that go on sequentially throughout our public hours.

Throughout the exhibition a collection of Brooklyn DJs and producers took over the boom boxes to perform intimate live sets.

The remaining program follows:

Thursday, August 11, 6-8 pm

Summer DJ Boom Box Residencies:

Jasmine Solano, Zach Witness, Joe Hova, and Busquelo

Jasmine Solano, Zach Witness, Joe Hova, and Busquelo bring their mix of global, folkloric, and futuristic soul to Sachs's Presidential Vampire Booth. The program is free as part of Thursday Nights presented by Squarespace.

Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective, 1999-2016 is organized by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum. An earlier version of this exhibition, entitled Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999-2015, opened in January 2015 at The Contemporary Austin. This exhibition is generously underwritten by Jill and Jay Bernstein. Generous support is provided by Jeffrey Deitch for public programming and by Sperone Westwater for the Boombox Brochure.

Image: Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective, 1999-2016 Installation Photograph. Photo by Jonathan Dorado.