Salon des Refusés 2024 - 2, the Extension

The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition presents an extension of our very own Salon des Refusés 2024

We announced an open call for the Salon des Refusés 2024 exhibit earlier this year for artists who received a rejection letter for The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition. The response and good will we received was so too tremendous that we’ve decided to refresh the exhibit and extend it.

It will reopen November 2 and run through the end of our exhibition season.

The original Salon des Refusés took place in 1863 when the Paris Salon held its annual exhibition of academic arts. Thousands of artists applied but were rejected and were unable to display their work in the official Salon exhibition. It was determined that their work did not fulfill academic standards of the time. Emperor Napoleon III, who wanted the public to make the decision, organized a simultaneous exhibition of all the rejects in the Palace of Industry. This exhibition included artists such as Manet, Cezanne, Pissarro and Whistler. The exhibition of “rejects” became famously known as the Salon des Refusés 1863.

Coming Soon, the refreshed Extension of Salon des Refusés 2024

Exhibition Opens

• Nov 2 to Nov 24, with possible future extension to Dec 22

• Saturday and Sunday 1pm to 6pm

• Opening Reception: Saturday, November 2, 1pm to 6pm