Lifestyle & Culture

The Brooklyn Museum welcomes Robert Wiesenberger as its new Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, expanding its commitment to bold exhibitions and contemporary voices.

Teen teams from across Brooklyn competed in the BKLYN Library Robotics League, with Washington Irving Library emerging as the repeat champion.

Created by artist Phil Buehler and Radio Free Brooklyn, the Wall of Tears memorial in Bushwick honors 18,457 Palestinian children killed since Oct. 7, 2023.

Uton Onyejekwe, Tahira Clayton and more lead an evening of Black love songs spanning generations during a special Feb. 12 event at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

During his time on screen, Williams became one of the country’s most prominent actors and was described as a "singular presence, onscreen and off, who made every role his own.”

New lifeguards earn $22 per hour, plus a $908 training payment. The lifeguard qualifying test must be taken by the end of February.

The Salvator Mundi Museum of Art in the Columbia Street Waterfront District hawks coffee, pasta sauce and perfume in ode of the famous painting widely attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.

Green-Wood Cemetery will start offering a service called Natural Organic Reduction, where a human body is decomposed naturally and turned into soil.

The Center for Black Literature will mark Black History Month with a timely and thought-provoking public program on Thursday at Medgar Evers College.

The New York State Department of Veterans’ Services will host a free Black History Month virtual program on Feb. 6 honoring Black service members through storytelling, poetry and dialogue.