PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum this spring is going to be a real riot.
Work by the Russian artist and activist group Pussy Riot is set to come to the museum soon, part of more than a dozens artists joining the third and final wave of the “Agitprop!” exhibit on display there through August.
The exhibit aims to “explore the legacy and continued power of politically engaged art,” the museum said, which will include a three-minute and 42-second film by Pussy Riot, “Like a Red Prison,” created by the group in 2013 as they toured the Russian countryside staging “guerilla-style” concerts at oil drilling facilities and gas stations to shed light on the country’s corrupt oil industry.
It’s unclear whether members of Pussy Riot themselves will attend the exhibit; a spokeswoman for the museum said details for the April 6 opening of the exhibit are still being finalized, but she could not confirm their attendance “at this time.”
More than 50 artists and hundreds of contributors have been involved with Agitprop since its December opening, the museum said, including a pair of artists who created a 4-foot-tall bust of Edward Snowden that was confiscated by police in Fort Greene Park last year.
Each artist in each “wave” of the Agitprop! exhibit was nominated by an artist from the previous phase of the display; the museum said Pussy Riot was nominated by Amnesty International, who collaborated with Egyptian street artist El Zeft in the exhibit’s second wave.
For a complete list of Agitprop! artists, visit the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibit page.
