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by: Magee Hickey

Posted: Apr 21, 2024 / 10:23 PM EDT

Updated: Apr 21, 2024 / 10:23 PM EDT

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (PIX11) — If it’s a Sunday in the spring, a lot is going on at the Brooklyn Museum, from concerts to making art to an outdoor pop-up.

On top of all that, it’s the 50th anniversary year of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, so the Brooklyn Museum’s Resident orchestra took everyone to the movies.

It celebrated film scores from the last century, including The Pink Panther, Back to the Future and Star Wars.

With tickets costing $20 or less, it was a sold-out love fest. 

“You just have to hear it to see it,” Bob Adams, an audience member, told PIX11 News. “The breath of the sound, the quality of the venue. It’s all just fabulous.”

Just two floors above, there was the Sunday Art Hang, where museum visitors looked closely at a particular painting, this time, Portrait of a Woman with Bouquet by Laura Wheeler Waring, an artist of the Harlem Renaissance and got inspired. 

“We like to keep it open-ended,” Babs Piesch, a school and family program teaching artist at the museum, told PIX11 News. “We have toddlers all the way up to older folks. It’s really about a hands-on way to engage with the art.”

Ying Ze Wang, a museum visitor, and her seven-year-old son Andy Chen were both trying their hands at portraits. 

If outdoor shopping is more of your thing, the pop-up market in front of the museum had a DJ, pastries from Portugal, alpaca and llama sweaters from Bolivia and authentic goods from West Africa. 

“This is a bridge between African art and America,” Aliou Lo, owner of Authentic Goods of West Africa, told PIX11 News. “It is making ends meet for the people who are making them.”

If you want to learn more about museum activities, go to Brooklynmuseum.org. 

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