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.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden announces Hanami, the Cherry Blossom-Viewing Season, April 5–May 4, 2008. Hanami is the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry's flowering season—from the first buds, to the luminous blossoms, to the waterfall of petals cascading from the trees. At Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hanami includes a series of seasonal events that pay tribute to the Garden's iconic collection of Japanese flowering cherry trees.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is counting down to its second annual Lunar New Year Celebration and Flower Market on Sunday, February 3, 2008. Because plants are such an important element of a traditional Lunar New Year celebration, the Garden is the ideal setting to welcome 4705.

Koh-i-noor, a mixed-media sculpture of Queen Elizabeth, by the Scottish-born artist Hew Locke that explores tensions within contemporary British society and their relationship to colonial history, has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden's extraordinary winter landscape beckons visitors with the hushed beauty of the season, including the sculpted architecture of the plants and landscapes in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and the Osborne Garden.

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 Christmas Eve quiet was shattered in New York City by four slayings, resulting from three separate shootings, in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

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.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announces its Second Annual Lunar New Year Celebration & Flower Market, on Sunday, February 3 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. What better way to usher in 4705—the year of the Rat—than with an exciting program of Asian entertainment and a special cut-flower market featuring plants used in the Lunar New Year celebrations of China, Korea, and Vietnam?

Bring your costumes, instruments, and silly attitudes to Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and prepare to be charmed by New York's wackiest Halloween party for the whole family on Sunday, October 28, 2007, from Noon to 6 p.m.