Votes for Women, the latest exhibition to be presented in the Herstory Gallery of the recently opened Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, opens at the Brooklyn Museum on February 29, 2008.

Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770–1900, on view at the Brooklyn Museum from March 21 through June 15, 2008, will present 95 Japanese woodblock prints by more than 15 artists, among them Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.

The Brooklyn Museum will offer a variety of events for kids and families in January, including art-making programs, storytelling, a Saturday filled with free family activities, and the final weeks of the special exhibitions Infinite Island and Brushed with Light.

The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 5 through July 13, 2008. The exhibition, MURAKAMI, will include more than ninety works in various media that span the artist’s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space.

The preview celebration of the twenty-second annual Modernism: A Century of Style and Design, the fine and decorative arts exposition produced by Sanford L. Smith & Associates, will take place Thursday, November 15, 2007, from 5 to 9 p.m.

The Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays event attracts thousands of visitors to free programs of art and entertainment each month. On October 6, the Brooklyn Museum celebrates BAM 25th Next Wave Festival by co-organizing an exciting evening of live music, dance performances, spoken word, and a dance party inspired by the special exhibition Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art.

A newly acquired installation piece by Brooklyn-born artist Toland Grinnell, Pied-a-Terre, which explores issues of consumer culture, excess, and luxury, will be on long-term view on the Brooklyn Museum’s fourth floor, adjacent to the Museum’s recently reopened Period Rooms.

The Brooklyn Museum will offer a variety of events for kids, teens, and families in September and October, including art-making projects, storytelling, and gallery talks.

An exceptional tenth-century Chola bronze statue of the Hindu god Shiva is now on view in the Brooklyn Museum’s Asian Art galleries. This important addition to the collection was presented as a gift in honor of Amy G. Poster, who retired from her position as Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art in 2006, after more than thirty-five years of service to the Museum.

The exhibition Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art examines how the Caribbean is defined, as both a real and an imaginary location. Including nearly 80 works in a wide range of media, created within the past six years by 45 emerging and established artists, it will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from August 31, 2007 through January 27, 2008.

The Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays event attracts thousands of visitors to free programs of art and entertainment each month. On August 4, celebrate Caribbean culture with a hot line-up of live music, dance performances, films, art-making, and a dance party.

Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection showcases a selection of eighty works from the Brooklyn Museum’s extensive and highly regarded holdings of American landscape watercolors. The exhibition, on view September 14, 2007, through January 13, 2008, explores the joint evolution of landscape and watercolor painting in the United States over the course of two centuries.