The Brooklyn Museum opened three new exhibitions this month at 200 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights, and all three are included in general admission, which the museum runs on a pay-what-you-can basis.

Cézanne to Modigliani

Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection brings together more than 50 modern European paintings, sculptures and works on paper. Alongside Paul Cézanne and Amedeo Modigliani are Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Chaïm Soutine.

The works come from Henry and Rose Pearlman, collectors who gave their holdings to the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. The museum counts the gift among the most important gifts of European art in its history, and the show also tells the Pearlmans' own story, which it describes as an American and a Brooklyn one, through themes that include immigration and assimilation. It was co-organized with LACMA, is curated in Brooklyn by Lisa Small, the museum's senior curator of European art, and hangs in the Schapiro Wing on the fourth floor through April 18, 2027.

Hopi Kachina Dolls

Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World looks at the carved and painted cottonwood figures, called tithu, that represent the Katsinam, spirits who bring rain and keep the world in balance for the Hopi of northeastern Arizona. The dolls are given mainly to girls and women, and the museum says this is the first exhibition to study the tradition from the point of view of the people who receive them.

Fifty-three dolls from the museum's Indigenous art collection are among more than 120 works, which follow a Hopi woman's life from the simple flat doll a baby girl first receives to the more complex figures of adulthood. Baskets, jewelry and ceramics by Hopi women fill out the show, along with new video interviews with the artists. It is presented by the museum's Center for Feminist Art and runs through June 27, 2027.

Mika Ninagawa: Feel the Flow(ers)

Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa, born in 1972, has taken over the museum's Education Gallery on the first floor for her first immersive installation in the United States. Her photographs of dahlias, roses, lilies and hydrangeas cover the walls, some of the prints are made to be touched, and the room hosts performances and art making for visitors of all ages. It runs through April 2027. The gallery closes from 3 to 6 p.m. on Wednesdays through November 18 for programs.

Also on

Manga Before Manga: Japanese Art from the Collection opened October 3 and runs through January 31, 2027, next to the ticketed Art of Manga. Common Sense closes November 8, and Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, a ticketed show with timed entry, closes December 6.

How to go

The Brooklyn Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and closed Monday and Tuesday. The main entrance is on Eastern Parkway. The 2 and 3 stop at Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum, at the front steps. General admission tickets are untimed and pay what you can; ticketed exhibitions use timed entry in 15-minute slots, and members get in free.

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