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“At a time when so much gay culture aspires to honorary heterosexual status, their art is true L.G.B.T.Q., loud and proud and unguarded. And it’s in exactly the right museum at exactly the right time." - Holland Cotter, The New York Times | read all about our exhibition #antoniolopez #futurefunkfashion via @nytimesheadline​: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/arts/design/review-a-nuyorican-artists-career-survey-loud-proud-and-timely.html?_r=1

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In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth @ElMuseo is celebrating #womenartists | our #wcw today’s goes to #CarmenHerrera a Cuban artist who is an important figure in the geometric abstraction movement. In 2008 we had the pleasure of hosting her 1st solo exhibition, this fall @whitneymuseum is hosting her retrospective | pictured above is Carmen Herrera, Tondo: Black and White II, 1959, Acrylic on canvas | the work is on view @elmuseo though May 21st as part of #IllusiveEye our #opart and #kineticart #exhibition

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Go behind the scenes of our current exhibition The Illusive Eye with our Executive Director and exhibition curator Jorge Daniel Veneciano as he chats with Blouin Art Info!

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/video/watch/kinetic-and-op-art-mesmerize-at-el-museo-del-barrio/4760320450001

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So flattered that #Venezuelan #fashiondesigner @angelsanchezpr picked @elmuseo as one of his "Top 3 Destinations in NYC" to watch the full interview and learn what other spots made the cut watch the full video in the link below:

http://www.univision.com/estilo-de-vida/nueva-york-de-la-mano-del-disenador-angel-sanchez-video

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For its new #exhibition on #Op and #Kinetic #art, The Illusive Eye, @elmuseo announces an exciting #collaboration with master artist #CarlosCruzDiez (b. 1923, Caracas, Venezuela) and #FundacionCruzDiez in the creation of a custom poster announcing the exhibition based on the Cruz-Diez’s years of study and experimentation with color and form. The poster is available in limited quantities at our museum shop, La Tienda!

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#‎SaveTheDate‬ for ‪#‎ElMuseoGala2016‬ on Thursday May 12th at The Plaza Hotel honoring MAC Cosmetics and Isabel and Ruben Toledo with special tribute to famed fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez

Celebrating its 23rd year, The Gala is El Museo’s single most important fundraising event of the year. It raises essential support for the museum’s critically acclaimed exhibitions and valued public and educational programs. Funds raised at the Gala enable El Museo to continue their important work and keep expanding the scope of their reach. This spectacular event brings together luminaries from the worlds of fashion, entertainment, business, society, politics, and the arts in order to raise crucial operating funds for the museum.

This year, El Museo’s Gala will borrow its aesthetic theme from our Summer exhibition: ANTONIO LOPEZ: Future Funk Fashion, which will pay homage to the late Puerto Rican fashion illustrator, and transform the evening into a stylish unveiling of the upcoming exhibition.

For more info. & to purchase tickets visit: http://www.elmuseo.org/gala-2016/

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KARINA AGUILERA SKVIRSKY El Museo’s latest artist-iin-residence will be on-site live in Las Galerías from Nov. 3 – Dec. 19, 2015 & Jan. 19 – Feb 13, 2016

“My work incorporates vernacular and constructed approaches to making art. In particular, I am drawn to the idiosyncrasies of memory and how personal histories intersect with politics and are contextualized by the time periods in which they are made. I research, create and perform archives slipping between record, the remembered and the reconstructed.”

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Karina Aguilera Skvirsky is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in photography, video and performance. In 2010, she participated in There is always a cup of sea for man to sail, the 29th Sao Paolo Biennial, where she exhibited work from her project, Memories of Development. In 2014 she will be having solo exhibitions at Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden Pocket Utopia, NY, NY and DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador. She has received a Fulbright Award to go to Ecuador to complete a performative film project, “The perilous journey of Maria Rosa Palacios”, in 2015. Skvirsky’s work has been exhibited internationally in group and solo shows. She has received competitive grants nationally and has participated in numerous Artist in Residence programs.

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CUT N' MIX Artist Nat Castañeda will be joining us for this year's DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: TILL DEATH DO US PART! She will create site-specific video installations. Check out her work at http://www.natcastaneda.com GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! 

$150 for General Admission Buy tickets at http://www.elmuseo.org/jc-dod-2015/ $120 for El Museo members Call 212-660-7139 to reserve your tickets TODAY

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Join El Museo del Barrio and the Junior Council for our annual arts education benefit! This year, we are putting a twist on the long cherished Mexican celebration, using marriage vows as inspiration to celebrate love - gained and lost

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: Till Death Do Us Part Thursday, October 29th | 8PM - 11PM Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC

$150 GENERAL | $120 MEMBER $125 GENERAL | $100 MEMBER - UNTIL OCTOBER 1 Get your tickets TODAY! Visit bit.ly/1K5L6fj Member? Call 212-660-7139 to purchase Tickets required. 21+

Unable to attend but want to contribute in support of arts education at El Museo? Make a donation in honor of someone loved or lost here, today! bit.ly/1Ns7zIS

Proceeds for this event are in support of El Museo's education and public programming.

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FRIDUCHA FRIDAYS! Happy Labor Day Weekend

My Life.

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WOMEN SERIES SPOTLIGHT: GRIMANESA AMOROS Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 6:30 - 8:30pm, elmuseo

El Museo del Barrio and ArtW present Women Series Spotlight, an annual lecture program celebrating living Latina artists. This year, Art W Founder and Marjorie Martay and El Museo curator Rocio Aranda-Alvarado kick off the new partnership with an intimate evening highlighting the pervasive public works of Peruvian-American artist Grimanesa Amorós. The artist-led presentation and panel discussion will be followed by a Q+A from 6:30 – 7:30pm with a private reception immediately after between 7:30 and 8:30pm.

We invite you to visit Las Galerias from 5:30 – 6:30pm and view the second in our five women-artist retrospectives, RODRIGUEZ CALERO: Urban Martyrs and Latter-Day Santos,”and the first museum survey of the Nuyorican artist.

ABOUT GRIMANESA AMOROS Grimanesa Amorós was born in Lima, Peru and lives and works in New York City. With diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory, her process remains organic and instinctive. This intuitive relationship to technology is a distinctive feature of Amorós’ practice and her works incorporates elements from sculpture, video, lighting, and technology to create site-specific installations to engage architecture and create community. Grimanesa Amorós has often drawn upon important Peruvian cultural legacies for inspiration for her large-scale light- based installations, which she has presented around the globe from Mexico, Tel Aviv and Beijing to New York’s Times Square.

Not a Member? Join now and get free access to this and other future events! For more info, visit elmuseo.org/membership or email Members@elmuseo.org

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RODRIGUEZ CALERO: Urban Martyrs and Latter Day Santos On through October 17, 2015 El Museo del Barrio http://www.elmuseo.org/roca/

El Museo del Barrio’s “Urban Martyrs and Latter-Day Santos” is the first museum survey of the Nuyorican artist Rodríguez Calero and the second in a series of five women-artist retrospectives in El Museo’s current five-year plan. Rodríguez Calero forges her powerful and unique style from the richly varied traditions of her own background. Born in Puerto Rico and raised mainly in New York City, she received her artistic education at San Juan’s prestigious Escuela de Artes Plásticas and the famed Art Students League of New York. After living and studying abroad, in both France and Spain, she returned to New York where she became a participating artist in the historic Taller Boricua.

Rodríguez Calero’s original technique is called “acrollage,” a technique of layering glazes of luminous colors with rice and other kinds of paper. The blending of fermenting surfaces and stenciled patterns attains lustrous color and texture. Guest-curated by Alejandro Anreus, the installation includes 29 large acrollage canvases, 19 smaller collages, 13 fotacrolés (altered photography) on canvas board, and 3 works of mixed media on paper. The exhibition will be accompanied by a brochure and a scholarly catalogue.

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¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York On view July 22, 2015 – October 17, 2015

¡PRESENTE! The Young Lords in New York explores the legacy of the Young Lords in East Harlem, the Bronx and the Lower East Side, focusing on specific political events that the Young Lords organized in these locations.

El Museo’s exhibition draws from works in the museum’s own collection including copies of the Young Lords weekly newspaper, Palante. It also explores the legacy of the Young Lords and the relationship between art and activism. Images by photographer Hiram Maristany that feature the Young Lords’ Garbage Offensive, their take over of the First Spanish Methodist Church of East Harlem (later renamed by the Young Lords as The People’s Church), their free morning breakfast program, the rerouting of a TB-testing truck and the funeral of Julio Roldán will all be highlighted in the exhibition. Paintings and political prints (Antonio Martorell, Domingo García, and Marcos Dimas) from El Museo’s permanent collection will be on display. Works commissioned specifically for this exhibition by Coco Lopez, JC lenochan, Miguel Luciano, and Shellyne Rodriguez are also featured.

¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York will be exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (July 2 – October 15, 2015), El Museo del Barrio (July 22-October 17, 2015), and Loisaida Inc. (July 30 – October 10, 2015). The exhibition is co-organized by all three institutions. 

At El Museo del Barrio the exhibition is made possible with Public Support from Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the New York City Council.

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CUT N’ MIX Featured Artist natcastaneda

Nat Castañeda is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, U.S. World and News Report, Sports Illustrated, NY Daily News and USA Today.

CUT N’ MIX: Contemporary Collage On view July 22, 2015 – October 17, 2015 elmuseo

This exhibition explores the work of artists experimenting with collage and collage techniques in ways that expand the gestures of cutting paper and mixing various mediums together. It takes as its point of departure some of the concepts from Dick Hebdidge’s series of essays collectively titled Cut N Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music, published in 1980. In this text, Hebdidge explored the variations of Caribbean reggae and dancehall and other related styles of music as emblematic markers of Caribbean ideas of nationhood, belonging, and the making of culture.

Hebdidge notes the following about additional versions of a song, a kind of sound collage that is made from the original melody: On the dub, the original tune is still recognizably there, but it is broken up. The rhythm might be slowed down slightly, a few snatches of song might be thrown in and then distorted with echo. (p. 83)

This idea of an original form of working (the paper collage) that has been changed in some way through more radical processes is addressed in various ways in this exhibition. So-called traditional collages are included, in which papers or photographs or prints or magazine images are placed over other layers of paper. In addition, more “extreme” versions of collage are featured, such as layered and burnt linoleum, overlaid cardboard and fabric, gigantic collaged works, and pop-style drawings collaged into digital videos. The artists included in the exhibition range from established artists who are veterans of collage to new generations of artists experimenting with this malleable medium.

Participating Artists: Elia Alba, Jesse Amado, Blanka Amezkua, Javier Barrera, Maria Berrio, Cecilia Biagini, Michael Paul Britto, José Camacho, Karlos Carcamo, Nat Castañeda, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Matias Cuevas, Rafael Ferrer, Roger Gaitan, Carolina Gomez, Javier Ramirez/NADIE, Carlos Gutierrez Solana, Hector Madera, Glendalys Medina, Alex Nuñez, Catalina Parra, Carlos Rigau, Hernan Rivera Luque, Linda Vallejo, Rafael Vega and Eduardo Velázquez.

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10 NYC-Based Latino Artists to Know The rise of Hispanic America has made them the largest minority group in the country. Here in New York, this growth has brought an influx of culture, music, and art, blending the traditions of Las Americas with urban life. From Brooklyn to the Bronx, this list highlights just a few of the Latinos representing and creating for New York City.

For full article: http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/10-nyc-based-latino-artists-to-know/%0A

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El Museo del Barrio will be marching at the NYC Pride Parade this year on Sunday, June 28th! Become a member today, and join us in the celebration. For more info, email members@elmuseo.org. 

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El Museo del Barrio is getting ready to march at this year's National Puerto Rican Day Parade! ‪#‎boricua‬ ‪#‎tradition‬ ‪#‎elmuseo‬ ‪#‎founders‬ Become an El Museo member today, and march with us! For more info, call Stephanie at 212-831-7272. Info: http://www.elmuseo.org/membership/