June 21, 2011

Brooklyn Museum cancels 'Art in the Streets' exhibition

For the second time within a week, the Brooklyn Museum is making a painful budget cut, this time cancelling the upcoming exhibition of “Art in the Streets,” the first major United States museum show on the history of graffiti and street art.

“This is an exhibition about which we were tremendously enthusiastic, and which would follow appropriately in the path of our Basquiat and graffiti exhibitions in 2005 and 2006, respectively. It is with regret, therefore, that the cancellation became necessary due to the current financial climate,” Brooklyn Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman said in a statement today announcing the cancellation. “As with most arts organizations throughout the country, we have had to make several difficult choices since the beginning of the economic downturn three years ago.”

Currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, “Art in the Streets” had been scheduled to open at the Brooklyn Museum on March 30, 2012.

Last week, the Brooklyn Museum cited financial problems as it ended late-Friday hours.

June 21, 2011 5:19 PM in Museums, Out of Manhattan

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