As museums reopened in fall 2020, Sunset Screenings invited neighbors and passersby to an outdoor exhibition of major video artworks in the Brooklyn Museum collection, and key loans, exploring themes of power and uncertainty, distance and loss, and history’s hand in our present times. 

Artists: Liz Johnson Artur, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Jeffrey Gibson, Arthur Jafa, Susan Janow, Steffani Jemison, Ahmed Mater, Marilyn Minter, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Lorraine O’Grady, Ebony G. Patterson, Howardena Pindell, Sable Elyse Smith, Tourmaline, Nari Ward with Zachary Fabri, and Sasha Wortzel, as well as an excerpt of Question Bridge: Black Males, by Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair.

It included a special program of videos by Sara Cwynar, Steph Foster, Ja’Tovia Gary, Glenn Ligon, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Ka-Man Tse, organized by UOVO Prize–winning artist John Edmonds. It was curated in collaboration with multiple team members, led by Carmen Hermo and Drew Sawyer.