More than thirty female artists are included in An Art of Our Own: Women Ceramicists from the Permanent Collection, an installation of eighty objects presented in conjunction with the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum on March 23, 2007.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents the 25th anniversary of Making Brooklyn Bloom, the Garden's annual community horticulture event and spring gardening kick-off day, Saturday, March 10, 2007. This year's conference is the biggest Making Brooklyn Bloom event ever, and will focus on the burgeoning interest in urban agriculture in Brooklyn and the many benefits that urban greening-including growing fresh organic food-has on local communities.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is gearing up and counting down to its first annual Lunar New Year Celebration and Flower Market, Saturday, February 10, 2007. The Garden is the ideal venue to welcome the Year of the Pig, providing not only a traditional flower market but also a chance for visitors to experience Asian cultures through music and dance and to learn about the significance of the plants that make the Lunar New Year so special.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announces the publication of the fourth volume of Urban Habitats, an open-access electronic journal launched in 2003 that focuses on current research on the biology of urban areas. The latest issue is available in its entirety online. Urban Habitats is published by the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE), a collaboration between Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Rutgers University.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) received its first-ever grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support an important new exhibition: Drawing From Life: Maud H. Purdy and Botanical Art at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, scheduled for exhibit from September 15, 2007 through November 11, 2007.

Artist Devorah Sperber will exhibit five of her thread-spool installations and two recent works composed of colored crystals in an exhibition that opens at the Brooklyn Museum January 2007. Included in the presentation, on view through May 6, will be a work comprising 20,000 spools of colored thread arranged in a seemingly abstract pattern, which when viewed through an optical device becomes recognizable as Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper.

On Sunday, May 20th and Monday, May 21st, 2007 at 7:30pm, AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS (AOP), in collaboration with WORKS & PROCESS AT THE GUGGENHEIM, will present the World Premiere of composer Louis Karchin's new one-act opera, ROMULUS.

The Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays event attracts thousands of visitors to free programs of art and entertainment each month. Explore the notions of love and perception on February 3 with an exciting line-up of live music, poetry, films, art, and a dance party.