DRINK / CULTURE: Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays


You may remember a scene from a movie where a bunch of radicals re-contextualize a stuffy old museum from a boring place for nerds into a veritable FunZone of fun, running around where signs specifically ask them not to run, dancing where signs should specifically warn them not to dance, and other such hi-jinks, probably while drunk. You probably thought to yourself, "never could I have that much fun in a museum." How wrong you were. Welcome to First Saturday's at the Brooklyn Museum.

Every Saturday night beginning at 5 p.m, the reclusive Wonka-esque owner of the Brooklyn Museum opens the gates of his wonderland to the mischief-loving youth of New York for a night of entertainment, art and music programming, and free access to most of their collections, complete with cash bars for those that need a little help with their art appreciation.

This week, on Oct 2nd, the Target-sponsored night will include live music from D.C. punk-hop A.D.M. (Architects + Demolition Men, a band with a name that cancels itself out) and plus-size comedian Erica Watson who challenges your perceptions of her as you stand there insensitively perceiving her, and a film about the artistic process. Or you could engage in that process yourself with the freestyle painting session, fulfilling your idealistic dream of creating ugly worthless art for a museum, just like the masters. While there's quite a lot more to do for free, including listening to artists talk about art and bookists talk about books and a Brooklyn-appropriate display of cool bikes, the real reason everyone goes to First Saturdays is the insane dance party! Hundreds, possibly hundreds of thousands of radicals will fill a huge room in the museum and dance the shit out of it, high art style.

Probably the one place where the line for the art is way longer than the line for beer, you should expect to get there early or spend a bunch of time in line until you decide to just go to the dance party anyway.

Brooklyn Museum; 200 Eastern Parkway; Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; 718.638.5000

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