#DukeRileyBkM

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Duke Riley’s Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum series, reenvisions the traditional maritime craft of scrimshaw through the use of bottles, containers, and other found plastic beach trash. 

The work shown here—with an iconic symbol reimagined—is displayed in a case with 15 other objects depicting New York landmarks. 

This series is part of 250 other new and recent works of Riley’s are on view through April 23, 2023.

📷 Installation view, DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash. Brooklyn Museum, June 17, 2022 - April 23, 2023. (Photo: Danny Perez, Brooklyn Museum)

[mtaartsdesign]

Duke Riley has long been interested in maritime history, folklore, and local customs – particularly around New York's waterways. Riley’s faceted glass artwork, “Be Good or Be Gone” (2011) at Beach 98 St (A,S) station in #Queens, features the iconic view of the houses on stilts seen from the A train as it crosses Broad Channel.

Riley’s current exhibition, “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash” until April 2023 at the @brooklynmuseum similarly focuses on #NewYork waterways to highlight marine fragility and resilience.  

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[brooklynmuseum]

Raise your hand if you’ll never look at discarded tampon applicators the same way again. 🙋

In honor of the final week of DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, we’re here to remind you on behalf of Duke Riley to help keep our waterways clean.

This exhibition is overflowing with Riley’s cleverness including: parodies of YouTube tutorials from an alter ego “Duke the Fisherman,” a fully functioning chandelier (or “Boozalier”) made from empty mini liquor bottles, display cases filled with contemporary interpretations of scrimshaw depicting international business executives that the artist identifies as responsible for the perpetuation of single-use plastics, and so much more.

🔗 https://bit.ly/DukeRileyBkM

See the exhibition while you can through July 16.

[brooklynmuseum]

Diamonds are forever, but so is plastic trash. 🎣💞

Look closely and you’ll see these lovely lures are no ordinary bait and tackle. As part of DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, Duke Riley fashioned DIY fishing lures out of plastic collected from the Brooklyn waterfront as well as trash from the streets of New York City.The tube of lipstick at-center seems quite apropos. Happy #ValentinesDay, everyone! 

See the inventive ways Riley salvaged single-use plastic in the context of contemporary environmental dilemmas as part of #DukeRileyBkM through April 23. 

📷 Courtesy of Duke Riley Studio 

[brooklynmuseum]

Galleries or gateways? 🌏️ ⏳️

Embark on a time-traveling adventure to far-off places without ever leaving the city through our collection highlights and exhibitions.

Plan your visit at the link in our bio and share your memories with us using #MyBkM.

📷 (on Instagram): @riva.ht, @nhallmhr, @_fckthegram, @taylornelson_nyc, @n.aru, @luvshanaj

[brooklynmuseum]

It’s not just the start of summer, today is also #WorldOceansDay! 

In DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, Duke Riley (@dukerileystudio) interrogates the consequences of modern human lives upon the natural environment and links the early history of global trade, colonization, and displacement to the overdevelopment of waterfront regions and the ongoing contamination of Brooklyn’s waterways.

The exhibition is an attention-grabbing reminder of the importance of our local waterways and the crucial role the global waters play in our lives.

Learn more about #DukeRileyBkM and plan your visit.

🔗 https://bit.ly/DukeRileyBkM

📷 Installation views, DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash. Brooklyn Museum, June 17, 2022 - July 16, 2023. (Photo: Danny Perez, Brooklyn Museum)

[brooklynmuseum]

When school’s out, Summer Camp is in! 😎

Young artists ages 8–10 and 11–13 are in for a real artistic adventure with this summer’s schedule inspired by our exhibitions and collections:

✍️ July 3–7: Sculpture and animation inspired by DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash 🎨  July 31–August 4: Mixed media and photography inspired by Africa Fashion

Learn more about Summer Camp, including scholarship opportunities (available on a first-come, first-served basis) and save your spot: https://bit.ly/summercampbkm 

📷 Brooklyn Museum summer camp, July 6, 2021 - August 13, 2021. Education studios. Brooklyn Museum (Photo: Jonathan Dorado)

[brooklynmuseum]

Not even a little cloudy weather can rain on our creativity. Get inside and get inspired at the Museum this weekend. ⁠

Share your visit with us using #MyBkM for a chance to be featured on our social media channels! ⁠

📷 @sydneywinnickyhussey, @_soloe__, @_jiancozart, @jessichkayur, @sarareinert1, @paixlom

[brooklynmuseum]

Sunshine, sculptures, smiles. ☀️

Soak up the best of Brooklyn this weekend. If you make it to the Museum, share your visit with us using #MyBkM.

📷 @briwrks, @pearlsmyers, @rayofsabibi_, @sirwilliam_h, @trishalvaro, @clariceartist

[brooklynmuseum]

Have you heard of climate grief? It’s a term coined to describe that sense of mourning or concern that may wash over you regarding the ecological crisis. 

On November 3 at 7 pm, we’re hosting a conversation between artists and activists. This instance of Brooklyn Talks will cover strategies for addressing climate change and advancing environmental justice across art, social practice, policy, and grassroots organizing with:

🌊 Duke Riley, the artist behind “DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash” 🌳 Kizzy Charles-Guzman of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice 🍂 Larissa Belcic of Nocturnal Medicine 🌎 Michelle Shofet of Nocturnal Medicine 🌱 Ajay Singh Chaudhary of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

Get your ticket to #BkMTalks or learn more about #DukeRileyBkM: https://bit.ly/3TFGkAX

📷 Duke Riley (American, born 1972). Mother Ocean, 2020. Salvaged, painted plastic. Courtesy of the artist. © Duke Riley. (Photo: Duke Riley Studio)

[brooklynmuseum]

It’s not every week that the muse graces the Museum. 

Thank you to Iman and all of our visitors for always showcasing why Brooklyn is the best. 

Share your visit with us using #MyBkM for a chance to be reposted! 

📷 @matthew_yokobosky, @joya.ma, @camrantula, @dija.bh, @sankacoffee, @cheylewinsky, @emma.campp, @chronicles_of_katt

[brooklynmuseum]

Come brave the cold and you'll find our art brings the heat. 🧣🧤

Keep warm this weekend and use #MyBkM for a chance to have your visit to the Museum reposted by us!

📷 @maellepandarig, @oliviakhanson, @desphrs, @musacm, @estyturner, @autumnamber3

[brooklynmuseum]

An 18th century house blanketed in 19th-century-inspired artwork made from 21st century trash. 

Duke Riley has activated the two houses built by members of the Schenck family for his exhibition DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash. Scrimshaw and sailors’ valentines currently on display almost suggest keepsakes from some seafaring loved one.

This second house was originally constructed by Nicholas Schenck in the 1770s on land that had been passed down from his grandfather, Jan Martense Schenck, in what is now the Canarsie Park. It saw the beginnings of what is now Brooklyn. Nicholas served in the American Revolution; his first wife was a member of the prominent Wyckoff family. The house stayed in the Schenck family for at least another generation.

Before it entered our collection in 1929, this house was temporarily converted to a concession stand in Canarsie Park which is situated on Jamaica Bay (shown in the final slide). Jamaica Bay has largely been protected since 1972, but the area still struggles with pollution like much of New York City’s waterways where Duke Riley goes fishing for his materials.

📷 Installation view, DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash. Brooklyn Museum, June 17, 2022 - April 23, 2023. (Photo: Danny Perez, Brooklyn Museum) → Nicholas Schenck. Nicholas Schenck House from Canarsie Park, ca. 1770-1775. Whole house Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the City of New York Parks and Recreation, 29.1283. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

[brooklynmuseum]

I spy with my little eye… pencils, tampon applicators, lighters, and many more discarded household objects.

Several sailor’s valentines are on display throughout the exhibition and inside the 17th and 18th century Schenck houses in "DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash." Duke Riley’s take on this popular maritime art reflects a growing scarcity of seashells on beaches and a concurrent increase in plastic pollution. What objects do you see within the geometric patterns? 

📷 Duke Riley (American, born 1972). If It Feels Good, Do It (detail), 2020. Found plastic trash, mahogany. Courtesy of the artist. © Duke Riley. (Photo: Robert Bredvad) → Duke Riley (American, born 1972). If It Feels Good, Do It, 2020. Found plastic trash, mahogany. Courtesy of the artist. © Duke Riley. (Photo: Robert Bredvad)

[brooklynmuseum]

Two houses built by members of the Schenck family in the 17th and 18th centuries in what is now Brooklyn can be found on the fourth floor of the Museum and have recently become the setting for part of Duke Riley’s DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash. Swipe to see what the period room looked like prior to this exhibition as well as archival images of the house.

Duke Riley has activated these spaces, blanketing them with artworks inspired by the 19th century, and made from 21st century trash. A large chandelier constructed entirely from discarded bottles serves as a twinkling reminder of the everyday objects the viewer is actually seeing.

The older house, originally constructed by the Dutch immigrant, Jan Martense Schenck, in the 1670s, is the oldest period house in the Museum’s collection and one of the oldest historic houses in New York City. It stood for 275 years in what is now the Mill Basin neighborhood where the structure bore witness to radical changes to the environment at the hands of humanity, from meadows and wetlands, to the edge of one of the world’s most significant metropolises.

For decades, Brooklyn Museum curators have presented the house as it might have been around 1730. Though the house has already been preserved for centuries, Riley’s materials, the plastics here and those that remain in New York City’s waterways, will likely outlast the building they now decorate.

🔗 https://bit.ly/DukeRileyBkM

📷 Installation view, DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash. Brooklyn Museum, June 17, 2022 - April 23, 2023. (Photo: Danny Perez, Brooklyn Museum) → Jan Martense Schenck House (or Schenck-Crooke House), Flatlands, Brooklyn, ca. 1675-1676. Whole house Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company, 50.192mn. Creative Commons-BY → "Flatland house". Printed material. Brooklyn Museum.