Free entertainment and art attracts thousands of visitors to take part in Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum.
    “Art is amazing,” said Catherine Morris, curator of the exhibition Eva Hesse Spectres 1960. She said the museum gives a different and important learning experience.
    The Brooklyn Museum offers free admission to galleries and events on the first Saturday of each month. Target First Saturdays include entertainment such as music and dance. Other programs are hands-on art as well as a book club. Lectures are given on new exhibitions such as Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 and HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.
    The Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties exhibition includes paintings with still-life, landscapes, nature, and city structures. Most artists’ paintings included eye-catching colors. The exhibition also consists of close-up works and sexual images. The Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties exhibition includes 68 painters, sculptors, and photographers who created 140 works with themes of sexual freedom and visual intimacy to demonstrate the jazz age, according to the Brooklyn Museum website. Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe are among the artists who composed works in this exhibition.
    A theme of the exhibition is a getaway from the busy city life because paintings were done at tranquil places such as Martha’s Vineyard, said Emily Sacher, museum guide. The paintings of the gallery express individuality and freedom.
    HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture is a current exhibition that started on November 18. According to the Brooklyn Museum website, the topic of this exhibition is gender and sexuality in modern American portraiture.
    The HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture exhibition shows how sexual identity has influenced modern art and features gay and lesbian subjects.
    The paintings are bold and depict individualism. The gallery consists of black and white photos along with color photos. Some of the drawings are scenes of city life in the 1900s. The themes are life, death, and the search for understanding.
    The Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 exhibition is unlike any other exhibition because the paintings do not have titles.
The artist of this exhibition experiments with gray colors, said Morris. The painter’s intention was to explore and try to figure out who they are. Motifs of Hesse’s works include portraits, figures, exploration, and psychology.
    Lee Mingwei: “The Moving Garden” is a new display at the Rubin lobby. “The Moving Garden comprises a forty-five-foot-long granite table with one hundred freshly cut flowers that appear to grow out of a channel running down its middle,” according to the Brooklyn Museum website. The museum invites visitors to take single blossoms when they leave. Flowers are replaced each day for the Lee Mingwei: “The Moving Garden” exhibition.
    There are also other exhibitions that include displays, architecture, and paintings.