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El Museo del Barrio Archive

The El Museo del Barrio Archive contains New York Latin Culture Magazine's feature coverage of Latin art at El Museo del Barrio in New York City since 2015.

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NYC’s Museum Mile Festival is an Open House Block Party on Fifth Avenue

The Museum Mile Festival is a free open house block party, put on by the museums on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. It's on the second Tuesday in June. Fifth Avenue closes to traffic. The Avenue fills with people and family-friendly street entertainment. You can visit the museums for free. It's one of the highlights of summer in New York City. Museum Mile Festival 2023 The … [Read more...] about NYC’s Museum Mile Festival is an Open House Block Party on Fifth Avenue

Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2023 Marks the End of Christmas

The Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2023 marks the Hispanic Christmas gift-giving day at the end of the Christmas Season, by marching through "El Barrio" East Harlem. We'll never forget one Three Kings Day Parade when we saw a young child holding the doll the Three Kings gave her. That doll was the most precious object in the universe, and the child's look of contentment was … [Read more...] about Three Kings Day Parade NYC 2023 Marks the End of Christmas

El Museo Three Kings Day 2023 Celebration is Family Fun

The El Museo Three Kings Day 2023 Celebration marks the Hispanic gift-giving day at the end of the Christmas Season, in "El Barrio" East Harlem, one of New York's traditional Latin neighborhoods. El Museo Three Kings Day 2023 Celebration The 46th Three Kings Day Parade is nearby on Park Avenue in "El Barrio" East Harlem from 11am - 12noon. The El Museo Three Kings … [Read more...] about El Museo Three Kings Day 2023 Celebration is Family Fun

International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is at El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, & Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center

The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is a community film festival that develops filmmaking opportunities for Puerto Ricans on the island and across the Diaspora. International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 The International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is at El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, and Julia de … [Read more...] about International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2022 is at El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, & Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center

Opera Lafayette Redraws French Opera from the Time of Maria Antoinette in a Colonial Mexican and Caribbean Context at El Museo

Under the theme of the "The Era of Marie Antoinette Rediscovered" the Opera Lafayette New York Festival redraws three French Baroque operas in a Tejano, Caribbean and West African context at El Museo del Barrio in "El Barrio" East Harlem, Tue-Thu, Jun 7-9, 2022 at 7pm. operalafayette.org 🇫🇷🇬🇳🇲🇽🇵🇷 Opera Lafayette New York Festival Relates Historical Women to the Music of … [Read more...] about Opera Lafayette Redraws French Opera from the Time of Maria Antoinette in a Colonial Mexican and Caribbean Context at El Museo

David Sánchez Plays Jazz for Carnegie Hall Citywide at El Museo del Barrio

David Sánchez is a Grammy-winning Jazz tenor saxophonist, one of the finest of his generation. Teachers are a big influence on an artist, and Sánchez has been mentored by both Eddie Palmieri and Dizzy Gillespie. That's Latin and that's Jazz. Puerto Rican tenor saxophonist David Sánchez plays Jazz for Carnegie Hall Citywide at El Museo del Barrio in "El Barrio" East Harlem, … [Read more...] about David Sánchez Plays Jazz for Carnegie Hall Citywide at El Museo del Barrio

The El Museo Three Kings Day Parade 2021 Celebrates Our Collective Strength Virtually

The 44th El Museo Three Kings Day Parade 2021 is a virtual celebration on El Museo's Facebook, YouTube and web site on Three Kings Day, Wednesday, January 6, 2021. There are two shows: for families and schools from 11am - 12pm, and for all ages from 6-7pm. FREE with RSVP 44th El Museo Three Kings Day Parade 2021 The show is hosted by TV personality Rhina Valentin with … [Read more...] about The El Museo Three Kings Day Parade 2021 Celebrates Our Collective Strength Virtually

Maluca Mala, Dominican Hip-Hop

Maluca Mala is a Washington Heights fly girl with her own R&B barrio techno. Maluca Mala plays Carnegie Hall Citywide Saturday, March 21, 2020 ~ Maluca plays a free concert at El Museo del Barrio for Carnegie Hall Citywide at 4pm. FREE More information at carnegiehall.org The show was cancelled to keep New Yorkers safe during the COVID-19 Coronavirus … [Read more...] about Maluca Mala, Dominican Hip-Hop

Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla at El Museo says “I am an Island”

Zelia Sánchez: Soy Isla is a touring retrospective exhibition of Cuban artist at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, NYC, Wed-Sat, Nov 20, 2019 to Mar 22, 2020. Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla This first museum retrospective of the Cuban abstractionist features over 40 works from the early 1950s to the present. The retrospective covers the artist's entire working life in … [Read more...] about Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla at El Museo says “I am an Island”

An Emphasis on Resistance

An Emphasis on Resistance, the 2019 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition is at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, NYC, Wednesday to Sunday, October 30, 2019 through February 2, 2020. From $5 Wednesday, October 30, 2019 ~ The CIFO Resistance Exhibition opens with a panel discussion with many of the participating artists and Rodrigo Moura, Chief Curator and … [Read more...] about An Emphasis on Resistance

Joe Bataan, the King of Latin Soul, comes home to El Barrio

Joe Bataan, the King of Latin Soul, plays Boogaloo for Carnegie Hall Citywide at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, New York City on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at 4pm. FREE Bataan grew up three blocks away from El Museo, so this is really a homecoming. Joe Bataan, the King of Latin Soul Joe Bataan, born Bataan Nitollano in 1942, is a Filipino-African American … [Read more...] about Joe Bataan, the King of Latin Soul, comes home to El Barrio

“iLe” the Multi Grammy-Winning Ileana Cabra is her Own Woman after Calle 13

Puerto Rican rapper and bolero singer iLe plays El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem for Carnegie Hall Citywide on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 4pm. FREE Info at www.carnegiehall.org In Puerto Rico, iLe is musical royalty, so her show is sure to be packed. Don't miss it and do go early. POSTSCRIPT: iLe has been la clave (the key) to my understanding of Puerto Rico and … [Read more...] about “iLe” the Multi Grammy-Winning Ileana Cabra is her Own Woman after Calle 13

Lucio Fontana ‘Spatial Environment’ (1968) at El Museo del Barrio

Lucio Fontana 'Spatial Environment' (1968) is at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, Manhattan, Wednesday-Sunday, January 24 - April 14, 2019. $9 The exhibition was supposed to open on January 23, but El Museo announced a day change due to the complexity of building the installation. Lucio Fontana Our main article on Fontana is at Lucio Fontana, but briefly he was an … [Read more...] about Lucio Fontana ‘Spatial Environment’ (1968) at El Museo del Barrio

Chus Burés Spanish jewelry at El Museo del Barrio

For NYC Jewelry Week, Spanish jewelry legend Chus Burés is hosting A Dialogue Between Art & Design in person at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, Manhattan, November 14-18, 2018 from 3-5pm daily. FREE Go and meet Chus and get free museum admission too. Chus Burés is Part of La Movida Madrileña Chus Burés is a world-renowned Spanish jewelry designer. He got his start … [Read more...] about Chus Burés Spanish jewelry at El Museo del Barrio

‘Down These Mean Streets’ at El Museo del Barrio

In Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography, Latino photographers capture the street life in their own neighborhoods at El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, Manhattan from September 13, 2018 through January 6, 2019. Down These Mean Streets: Community and Place in Urban Photography The exhibition is organized by E. Carmen Ramos, deputy chief curator and … [Read more...] about ‘Down These Mean Streets’ at El Museo del Barrio

‘REVIVAL’ Pattern & Decoration at Longwood Art Gallery

REVIVAL: Contemporary Pattern & Decoration explores how contemporary artists surround their bodies with pattern and decoration in wallpaper, fabric, porcelain, and silhouettes. The exhibition builds on the artistic movement of the 1970s known as Pattern and Decoration (P & D), which explored the repetition of color, line and shape. It was partly a response to … [Read more...] about ‘REVIVAL’ Pattern & Decoration at Longwood Art Gallery

‘Queenie’ female artists from El Museo del Barrio’s collection

See what we women have to say in 'Queenie,' an exhibition of female artists from El Museo del Barrio's permanent collection, at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, Tuesday - Saturday, March 21 - June 23, 2018. Queenie The exhibition takes its name from, Queenie, a sculpture by Alessandra Expósito. She took a deer's skull, a rather masculine symbol, and made it feminine with pink … [Read more...] about ‘Queenie’ female artists from El Museo del Barrio’s collection

Blind

Blind by Tango for All's Diego Blanco and Ana Padron explores the artist's existential question in a show of Argentine Tango fused with modern dance and theater, with live music by Pedro Giraudo. Blind comes to El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem Friday, September 15, 2017 at 7pm. $25 Blind's New York premiere is at BAM Fisher Thursday-Sunday, January 26-29, 2017. Tango … [Read more...] about Blind

Belkis Ayón ‘NKAME’ Cuban prints at El Museo del Barrio

NKAME a retrospective of Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón is pure Cuban soul. The first U.S. museum exhibition of the master printmaker is a woman's vision of the mystical world of the Afro-Cuban secret society Abakuá. NKAME a retrospective of Cuban printmaker Belkis Ayón is at El Museo del Barrio June 13 - November 5, 2017. Belkis Ayón, a Black woman in a man's world Belkis … [Read more...] about Belkis Ayón ‘NKAME’ Cuban prints at El Museo del Barrio

‘uptown: nasty women/bad hombres’ at El Museo del Barrio

uptown: nasty women/bad hombres at El Museo del Barrio June 13 through November 5, 2017 is an exhibition of work by artists who live or work in Uptown Manhattan:  El Barrio, Harlem, Washington Heights, or Inwood. The exhibition is part of Columbia University’s first Uptown triennial produced by The Wallach Art Gallery. The origin of nasty women and bad hombres "Nasty … [Read more...] about ‘uptown: nasty women/bad hombres’ at El Museo del Barrio

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz ‘Fragile Mirrors’ at El Museo del Barrio

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is a video and installation artist who explores post-colonial ironies in Haiti and her native Puerto Rico. At first glance, you might think post-colonial ironies are Puerto Rican or Haitian issues. But even though de-colonization began with the French capture of Spain 100 years ago (about four generations), we are still dealing with its rippling … [Read more...] about Beatriz Santiago Muñoz ‘Fragile Mirrors’ at El Museo del Barrio

Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy III Wacah Chan’ at El Museo

Dzul Dance "Wacah Chan" (the snake with two faces) is Part III of the Mayan circus theater's Tree of Life Trilogy. "Wacah Chan" premieres February 6, 2016, 8pm at El Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street). Dzul Dance Dzul Dance is New York City's Mayan circus theater. This is not Mayan from a book. It's the real thing. Artistic Director Javier Dzul was a Mayan … [Read more...] about Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy III Wacah Chan’ at El Museo

Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy II Kuxan Sum’ at El Museo

Dzul Dance, the Mayan circus theater, presented the world premiere of the Tree of Life Dzul Dance Trilogy Part II ”Kuxan Sum” at El Museo del Barrio at 1230 Fifth Avenue (124th St) in Manhattan on Saturday, January 9, 2016. ”Kuxan Sum” is the umbilical cord that connects humanity to the three planes of existence: the underworld (Xibalba), earth, and heaven” says Artistic … [Read more...] about Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy II Kuxan Sum’ at El Museo

Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy I Soul of the Maya’ at El Museo

The Dzul Dance Tree of Life Trilogy explores the spiritual connections between all living things. The Tree of Life is a universal symbol that exists in every mythology and every religion. This ancient concept is actually very contemporary. It also exists in science. Artistic Director Javier Dzul is Mayan Mexican. “Wisdom is eternal and the … [Read more...] about Dzul Dance ‘Tree of Life Trilogy I Soul of the Maya’ at El Museo