“Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression, a kaleidoscopic display of more than 300 works drawn almost entirely from El Barrio’s collection.This frequently moving, almost always riveting exhibition suggests that these holdings amount to a kind of cultural gold that can make the melting-pot nature of the city shine in a new way."
Press Coverage
The Press Coverage area posts links to exhibition reviews, program coverage, and media mentions related to El Museo del Barrio. For additional information about our coverage, please contact:
Von Diaz
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El Museo del Barrio
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"Super Holidays at El Museo" - Time Out New York Kids
"Celebrate the season with a host of Latino holiday traditions. Children make maracas, join a musical story time, pose for a picture at the Three Kings photo booth and listen to the soothing sounds of harpist Celso Duarte. Ages 18 months and up."
"A Careful Reading Between the Lines Is Required" - The New York Times, May 20, 2011
"Some stars take longer than others to come into telescopic range, as is the case with Luis Camnitzer, a pioneer of 1960s Conceptualism who is just now having his New York museum survey. Much of what's here is based on language: cryptic propositions, lists of words, descriptive phrases- unmoored from, or very loosely tethered to, spare-to-barely-there visual matter. The results are terse, political, funny and lyrical."
"Delaunay, Camnitzer and Cone: Art, Transformations and Identity on an Upper Fifth Avenue Museum Stroll" - Huffington Post, May 20, 2011
"Here's a way to celebrate the coming of spring: go to that stretch of Fifth Avenue that incorporates the El Museo del Barrio at 105th Street, the Cooper Hewitt at 90th Street, and the Jewish Museum at 91st Street. Why? The answer lies with two artists -- Luis Camnitzer and Sonia Delaunay -- and two extraordinary collectors, the Cone sisters of Baltimore."
"El Museo del Barrio publica una antología de poesía latinoamericana" - EFE News Agency, May 17, 2011
"El Museo del Barrio se ha unido por primera vez a una editorial para publicar una antología de poesía contemporánea de escritores latinoamericanos que han participado del programa "Speak Up!" que esa institución realiza desde 2008. Con este programa, que se lleva a cabo una vez al mes como parte de los Súper Sábados -que ofrece una variedad de eventos para niños y adultos- el Museo reconoce el poder y la influencia de la lectura en voz alta en Nueva York."
"Excellent Theater Nearby" - NY Daily News, April 21, 2011
"Teatro Heckscher at El Museo Del Barrio- See if love flourishes between a captain's daughter and a sailor in "The Lass that Loved a Sailor" (April 16 at 2 p.m., $25-$65) or catch a one-night performance of "Soneto de Amor y Muerte" in the final installment of Opera Hispanicas (May 5 at 7 p.m., free but RSVP required). If you want to see some magic, catch magician Thomas Solomon performing dazzling tricks (May 14 at 8 p.m., $50 general admission)."
"Welcome to Nueva York" - The New York Observer, October 28, 2009
"The inaugural exhibition at the recently refurbished El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem, takes on a set of artists apart from the familiar high-modernist view of New York."
"Art Currents Flow Two Ways in Pan-American City, U.S.A." - The New York Times, October 15, 2009
"Some museums pull us in with familiar beauties; some send us out with new ideas. The best do both, which is why it’s so great to have the lights back on and the art back up at El Museo del Barrio on upper Fifth Avenue."
"El Museo marks re-opening, 40-yr. anniversary with fresh new look" - New York Daily News, October 14, 2009
"The wait is over. Having been shut for 17 months for renovations, El Museo del Barrio reopens this Saturday with an all-day open house celebrating a fresh new look, two new exhibits and 40 years of existence."
"Beyond the Barrio, With Growing Pains" -New York Times, October 9, 2009
El Museo del Barrio tweaks its mission to focus not only on Puerto Rican culture but on all Latin American art.