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Closing soonOliver Jeffers: Life at SeaSeptember 19, 2025–April 26, 2026
About This Event
Live event at Brooklyn Museum
About Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea
At the Brooklyn Museum, *Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea* gathers works by Oliver Jeffers under a maritime lens, tracing how ships, horizons, and navigation recur as tools for thinking about distance, memory, and belonging. The presentation reads like a field notebook: spare images, direct language, and a quiet attention to how stories are built. In New York, where port history and migration narratives sit close to the surface, the show’s sea-bound frame lands with local weight. Jeffers’ restraint is the point, though it can also keep emotion at arm’s length.