Weekend Art Events: November 2-4 (BRIC House Party, Brooklyn Museum First Saturday & More)
Following the trick or treating and Halloween shenanigans, the weekend is looking to be on the quieter side, but there are a couple of new art exhibits and concerts to check out. Also, BRIC is hosting a family-friendly house party and Target First Saturday returns to the Brooklyn Museum with a celebration of art in the age of Black Power.
Check the BKLYNER Calendar for more events happening around town or to list one of your own.
REVIVAL ATTEMPT NO.1 | Solo Exhibition by Alex Rupert
When: Exhibition on view Thursday, November 1 through Wednesday, November 21 (opening reception Thursday, Nov. 1, 6pm to 11pm)
Where: 3rd Ethos Gallery, 154 Knickerbocker Avenue, Bushwick
What: Brooklyn-based artist Alex Rupert presents his second solo exhibition at 3rd Ethos featuring modernized images of “old wealth” given new life through illustration and street art. The opening reception, held on Dia de los Muertos, will feature live music and live painting.
Marlene Weisman | Old Faves + New Raves
When: Exhibition on view Friday, November 2 through Saturday, December 22 (opening reception Friday, Nov. 2, 6pm to 8pm)
Where: South Slope Local/Uptown Roasters, 355 7th Avenue (between 10th & 11th Streets), Park Slope
What: Brooklyn-based artist Marlene Weisman will exhibit a mini-retrospective of her popular collages as well as a selection of new work. Learn more about Weisman here.
American Iconoclasts II: Samuel Barber
When: Friday, November 2, 7pm (lecture), 7:30pm (concert)
Where: Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights
What: This season Brooklyn Art Song Society explores America’s vast musical heritage through the songs of five uniquely American voices with this edition featuring “the Romantic,” Samuel Barber. Philadelphia-based composer Nick DiBerandino will give a pre-concert lecture on Barber at 7pm.
How Much: Tickets $25, $15 students/seniors
2018 Brooklyn Classic
When: Friday, November 2, 8pm to 11:30pm
Where: Park Slope Library, 431 6th Avenue, Park Slope
What: Celebrate the winners of this year’s Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, Jeanne Theoharis for A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History and Carmen Maria Machado for Her Body and Other Parties. The BPL Literary Prize is one of the few major literature prizes selected by librarians and awarded by a public library system. Learn more here.
How Much: Tickets starting at $150 (Proceeds will support youth, family, and cultural programs at library branches across Brooklyn.)
House Party: We’re All Connected
When: Saturday, November 3, 12pm to 5pm
Where: BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street, Fort Greene
What: From how we grow our food to how we treat our neighbors, everything on this planet is connected! Through art-making, live performances, and more, join BRIC at this family house party and explore our different ecosystems and how to better care for one another and our home. The event closes with an all-ages dance party!
How Much: Free with RSVP
Target First Saturday: Art in the Age of Black Power
When: Saturday, November 3, 5pm to 10pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights
What: Target First Saturday returns to the Brooklyn Museum with a celebration of activists, revolutionaries, and artists from the national and global African Diaspora. Along with hands-on art, pop-up poetry, and talks, the Brooklyn Dance Festival will showcase Brooklyn-based dance companies and musicians Antoine Drye and Shelley Nicole will perform.
Oh What A Night! An Evening With Charles Calello
When: Saturday, November 3, 8pm
Where: On Stage at Kingsborough, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Manhattan Beach
What: Brooklyn’s On Stage At Kingsborough presents former member of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Charles Calello. A 15-Time Grammy Nominee and Vocal Group Hall of Fame Inductee (as a member of The Four Seasons), Calello has more Top 10 hits than anyone in pop music having arranged many of The Four Seasons’ hits including Sweet Caroline, Let’s Hang On, and My Eyes Adored You. Calello will conduct a big band orchestra accompanied by guest vocalists.
How Much: Tickets $34 to $39
Tenacious D (SPONSORED)
When: Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4, 8pm (doors open at 7pm)
Where: Kings Theatre, 1027 Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush
What: Acclaimed rock duo and basically everyone’s favorite band ever Tenacious D — comprised of Jack Black and Kyle Gass — will embark on their first U.S. tour in five years this fall, including a stop in Brooklyn at Kings Theatre.
How Much: Tickets $69.50
Pay No Attention To The Girl
When: Thursday, October 25 through Sunday, November 11
Where: The Doxsee at Target Margin Theater, 232 52nd Street, Sunset Park
What: Pay No Attention To The Girl returns to Target Margin Theater following a successful spring run. The production tells “interwoven stories about the sexes—their conflicts, their love, their tricks—created by the company from various translations/transmissions of The One Thousand and One Nights.”
How Much: Tickets $30
Good Shepherd Fall Concerts
When: Sunday, November 4, 5pm
Where: Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church, 1950 Batchelder Street (Ave. S between Brown & Batchelder Streets), Marine Park
What: The 22nd annual fall chamber music series at Good Shepherd Church continues with a performance by Daniel Lippel playing classical guitar.
How Much: Free, donations encouraged
Looking ahead…
Carnegie Hall Citywide: Banda Magda (SPONSORED)
When: Wednesday, November 7, 7:30pm
Where: BRIC House Ballroom, 647 Fulton Street (enter at Rockwell Place), Fort Greene
What: Magda Giannikou—the Greek-born leader of Banda Magda—boasts silky vocals, nimble-fingered accordion playing, and an effervescent stage presence that together make for an irresistible performance. With members of the band hailing from Argentina, Japan, Colombia, and the United States, Banda Magda taps into each of these cultures for an eclectic sound.
How Much: Free, RSVP required
Kings Theatre Happy Hour Tour (SPONSORED)
When: Thursday, November 8, 6:30pm to 8pm
Where: Kings Theatre, 1027 Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush
What: Wind down after work with a happy hour historic tour of Kings Theatre. All tours cover the history of the initial opening in 1929 through the story of the current day restoration to glory in an intimate group setting.
How Much: Tickets $30
Jack White (SPONSORED)
When: Saturday, November 17, 8pm (doors open at 7pm)
Where: Kings Theatre, 1027 Flatbush Avenue, Flatbush
What: Jack White will rock Kings Theatre in November performing songs from his third studio album, Boarding House Reach. Please note—this is a phone free show!
How Much: Tickets $90
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
When: Exhibition on view from Friday, September 7 through Sunday, November 11
Where: Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook
What: More than 20 artists working in Haiti’s capital will be presented in this exhibit featuring sculpture, photography, and film, as well as a garden installation of a recreated Port-au-Prince barbershop.
How Much: Free
Mary Mattingly: What Happens After
When: Exhibition on view from Thursday, September 13—Sunday, November 11
Where: Gallery at BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street (enter at Rockwell Place), Fort Greene
What: BRIC presents an exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist Mary Mattingly, who creates photographs, sculpture, and large-scale public art projects that address climate change by “drawing connections between the social and economic forces that make up the current political ecology impacting our environment.” A deconstructed and redesigned 19,000-pound military cargo truck will be on display, encouraging viewers to question: “What happens when an object that embodies both the systemic violence represented by war and by climate change is manifested in a public space?”
A Love Letter To New Orleans
When: Exhibition on view through Sunday, November 25
Where: MoCADA, 80 Hanson Place, Fort Greene
What: This exhibition features the work of two artists, Langston Allston and Demond Melancon, inspired by the city where they met. Allston, “an outsider of New Orleans, documents moments that captivate him, from the moments that introduced him to the city to the stories that weave together its contemporary history,” while Melancon “carries on the 200-year-old tradition of Black masking, which is a core part of New Orleans’ identity.”
Morbid Anatomy at Green-Wood
When: Saturday, September 22 through Sunday, December 2, Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm to 5pm
Where: Green-Wood Cemetery, Fort Hamilton Gate House (enter at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Micieli Place)
What: Morbid Anatomy returns to Green-Wood Cemetery for a second residency featuring an expanded library collection and the exhibition Bridging Worlds: The Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead which explores how different cultures envision the afterlife and attempt to communicate with the dead.
Processing
When: Exhibition on view Saturday, October 20 through Friday, February 15, 2019 (Fridays 3pm to 6pm, or by appointment)
Where: The Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street (between 4th & 5th Avenues), Park Slope
What: The Old Stone House presents an exhibition of current work by the members of the Gowanus Swim Society artist collective. The eight artists manipulated their art materials through “intentional, systematic procedures that sometimes incorporate[d] chance,” producing work that borders on representation and abstraction while showing “the evolution of most artists’ work processes.”