"One of the most striking images in the three-museum exhibit 'Caribbean: Crossroads of the World' is Leo Matiz's 1939 shot of a man casting a huge circular fishing net from the bow of a boat. The net ripples and swirls against the sky just before it will be plunged into the water."
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"Goings on about town: Art / Caribbean: Crossroads of the World" - The New Yorker, August 9, 2012
"In a valiant effort to convey the cultural diversity of a region that encompasses more than seven thousand islands and at least six languages, the museum errs on the side of over-inclusion in a crowded salon-style installation that ranges across four hundred years and allows very few works to stand out."
"Islands Buffeted by Currents of Change" - The New York Times, June 14, 2012
"The story is woven as much from questions as from answers, from intangibles as from facts. Is there a Caribbean culture, and how do you define it, given the mix of African, Asian, European and indigenous elements that blend, in quite different proportions, on some three dozen islands in the region? And even if the Caribbean is defined, loosely and poetically, as a state of mind, a mood, how do you capture that in an exhibition, when so much of that mood has, traditionally, been expressed more in music and performance than in static visual forms?"
"The Impressive 'Caribbean: Crossroads of the World' Spans New York" - The Village Voice, June 27, 2012
"'Caribbean: Crossroads of the World,' the summer's big blockbuster exhibition, is one such encyclopedic appraisal. A fresh new effort at clearly seeing there from here, it also speaks volumes about present-day New Amsterdam. After all, an exhibition as big, varied, and ambitious as this rare triumph could only really have been dreamed up in the Big Mango—er, I mean the Big Apple."
"One Voice of the Caribbean, Many Accents" - The Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2012
"[Seeing] as I've not even taken a tourist-y vacation to Jamaica (a situation I'm keen to correct), I wanted to visit the museums with people who are connected to the region and could absorb the art work with richer impressions and observations than I could. To that end, I visited each of the participating institutions—El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem—with artists of Caribbean descent. Today and in the following two weeks, this column will recount those visits, one at a time."
"Museos de Nueva York organizan la mayor exposición de arte del Caribe" - CNN en Español, July 6, 2012
"Según la directora ejecutiva del Museo Del Barrio, Margarita Aguilar, la exhibición es la culminación de casi una década de investigación que ofrece la oportunidad de explorar el Caribe y su diáspora. 'Desde el principio se pensó hacer una historia completamente amplia. No cabe duda que había que hacerlo grande para contar los temas que querían los curadores, verdaderamente explorar y contar una historia que no se ha contado o verdaderamente no se ha dado importancia a una región importantísima', dijo Aguilar."
"Visiones June 23: Museo Del Barrio" - NBC New York, June 23, 2012
"Lynda Baquero shares the details of a multimedia art exhibit that opened at three museums at the same time."
"Three New York art museums take on the complex topic of the Caribbean" - ARTnews, June 5, 2012
"In the planning for more than five years, 'Caribbean' is an unprecedented collaborative effort to consider the multiple historical, cultural, and social forces that shaped not only 28 countries but also their diasporas in North and South America and beyond."
"Caribbean Crossroads of the World, grandiosa exposición en tres museos, abre este martes" - ElTiempo.com, June 10, 2012
"Para Álvaro Barrios la inclusión de su nombre en esta muestra 'no es más que la reafirmación de los alcances de la globalización, lo cual ha permitido que los creadores de cualquier parte del mundo accedan a los grandes escenarios del arte. Y eso no sólo es un privilegio sino un gran éxito del arte latinoamericano'".
"Island-Hop Through New York's Multi-Faceted, Multi-Museum Survey of Caribbean Art" - ARTINFO, June 20, 2012
"The museums take a comprehensive look at the region and its Diaspora through the visual creations of its artists, and those inspired by the culture and scenery of the region's islands. The exhibition's time-line spans the period from the Haitian revolution to the present, and incorporates an impressive set of pre-modern, modern, and contemporary artists, including Janine Antoni, John James Audubon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Gauguin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ana Mendieta, and many more."