Arts & Entertainment

Queens Arts Intervention needs Brooklynites! The Rego Park Green Alliance is hosting Queens Art Intervention and is looking to import Brooklyn artists, residents, organizations, and everyday people to Queens for an all day arts intervention.

Join Haiti Cultural Exchange for the blowout finale of Selebrasyon! Friday, June 27, 6:30pm - 9:00pm The Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave, Bklyn Haiti Cultural Exchange & Oyasound Productions present "Lakay Se Lakay: Home Is Home".

Elizabeth Sackler Photo: Adam Husted The Brooklyn Museum has announced that the museum's current chairman, John S. Tamagni, will be retiring from his role and succeeded by Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler. Dr.

Monique Greenwood (l) served as moderator at a book signing for Essence Co-founder Ed Lewis and his new book, "Man Behind Essence" A lively energy filled the Skylight Gallery of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza on Wednesday evening.

The Brooklyn Museum on Monday announced a call to musicians and producers of all genres-- from classical to calypso, brass band to bossa nova-- to create an original score to accompany the Jane and David Walentas Fountain in front of the Museum.

It has grown into a national and international sensation. Tourists are flying in from Detroit, Paris, Hong Kong, Nashville... and heading straight to Brooklyn to see it: the sugar sphinx.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing.

In honor of the summer solstice and Black Music Month, Arts+Crafts/MoCADA and Nextdoor.com present a live, free concert on Saturday, June 21, from 2:00pm - 6:00pm in Fort Greene Park at the top of the park, near the monument.

Now in its eighth year, Make Music New York is a unique festival of 1,000+ free concerts in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City, all happening on Saturday, June 21, the first day of summer! MMNY takes place simultaneously with

Ippies MC Randall Pinkston delivers the Lifetime Achievement Award to Essence Communications Co-founder Edward Lewis Photo: Brock Stoneham In 1969, 28-year-old Bronx native Ed Lewis and three other young black entrepreneurs set out to found a uniquel