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.

Nancy Seaton, curator of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Lily Pool Terrace and Judith D. Zuk Magnolia Plaza, was approached by a fellow Garden staffer with a question: "What are some examples of native northeast annual plants?"

The Opera Company of Brooklyn will be performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s classic ensemble comedy, COSI FAN TUTTE, on August 18, 2007 as part of the Southold Historical Society’s 150th Anniversary celebration of the Horton Point Lighthouse.

Only Brooklyn Botanic Garden could host such a diverse homage to the chile pepper with sizzling musical and dance performances, spicy culinary demonstrations, tantalizing exhibits, and workshops from chile-loving regions around the world. Get a taste of the chilehead lifestyle and see why chiles are all the rage from Brooklyn to Bombay!

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.

The Brooklyn Museum has organized an exhibition of 107 objects from its world-renowned holdings of ancient Egyptian art that will go on a nationwide tour beginning in the summer of 2008 and conclude in the fall of 2011.