Questlove & Tom Sachs To Talk Music And Old Brooklyn At The Brooklyn Museum
Tom Sachs, Mark Parker and Questlove attend the WSJ. Magazine 2015 Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art on November 4, 2015 in New York City. | Photo via WSJ

On Thursday, June 16 at 8 pm, the Brooklyn Museum will host a conversation with artist Tom Sachs and drummer, DJ, and music producer Questlove. Moderated by poet Tom Healy, the two will discuss sound systems, the intersections between art and science, and their mutual love of music from across the globe.

From 6 to 8 pm, Brooklyn-based DJ Nemo Librizzi of KNOW-WAVE Radio and special guests pay homage to the streets of Brooklyn in the 1980s and 1990s on Tom Sachs’s boom boxes. The live DJ set will be in the Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby. The program is free as part of Brooklyn Museum’s Free Thursday Nights hosted by Squarespace.



Questlove & Tom Sachs To Talk Music And Old Brooklyn At The Brooklyn Museum
Bombox on display at the Brooklyn Museum as part of Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective: 1999-2016 exhibit. | Photo via Ayanna P./OurBKSocial

The evening’s programs are in conjunction with the special exhibition Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective: 1999-2016. The installation features eighteen works that highlight the artist’s ability to inventively transform ordinary, everyday materials into art. With wit and ingenuity, he creates boom box sculptures that play music and activate the Museum’s glass entryway, the Rubin Pavillion, turning it into an immersive sound environment. The work is programmed with playlists that go on sequentially throughout public hours and will be activated by Brooklyn-based DJs on select Thursdays.

To purchase tickets ($16) for Questlove and Tom Sachs in conversation click here.