Before New York was New York, or even New Amsterdam, it was already Nueva York. At least that is one of the ideas behind "Nueva York (1613-1945)," a sprawling exhibit covering the history and culture of Spanish-speaking people in New York City that opens in El Museo del Barrio on Friday, Sept. 17, and run through Jan. 9. Organized by the New-York Historical Society and El Museo, the show aims to write Spanish and Latin American visitors, migrants and descendants back into the founding and fundamental shape of the city.
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"Sweeping exhibit explores the Latin legacy of NYC over four centuries" - NY Daily News, September 15, 2010
"'Nueva York' turns lens south to NY Hispanic roots" - Reuters, September 10, 2010
A new exhibit at El Museo del Barrio turns an historic lens on New York's north-south relations, highlighting its long and deep roots with the Spanish-speaking world. "Nueva York: 1613-1945," which opens on September 17 and runs until early next year, depicts the city as a cultural crossroads for artists, intellectuals and revolutionary agitators from Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean.
"Muestra ofrecerá vistazo a raíces latinas en ciudad Nueva York" - MSN Entretenimiento (Reuters), September 10, 2010
Una nueva exhibición en El Museo del Barrio de Nueva York ofrecerá una visión histórica sobre las relaciones de los inmigrantes latinos con la ciudad, destacando sus profundas raíces con el mundo de habla hispana.
"Hispanic Heritage Month" - NYC.gov: That's so New York, August 30, 2010
Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 – October 15. Join Denise Oller as she looks at some of the history behind the month, and what New Yorkers can do to celebrate.
"Spiraling Upward: Rafael Ferrer at El Museo del Barrio" - Huffington Post, August 18, 2010
"Retro/Active: The Work of Rafael Ferrer," a retrospective of the artist's work at El Museo del Barrio that was organized by the museum's director of curatorial programs, Deborah Cullen, explores the full breadth of the artist's career in fascinating detail, beginning with his pivotal meetings with the Surrealists while he was on a vacation in Paris in 1954.
"Nueva York comienza a hablar de su hispanidad pasada, presente y futura" - Clarín, August 8, 2010
Primero fui visitante de Nueva York. Durante tres décadas. Ahora llevo nueve años viviendo aquí. Al principiar mis temporadas neoyorkinas, tenía que tener tres habilidades para torearla sin tropiezos: el crimen estaba en alza, era necesario hablar en inglés -no se manejaba otra lengua comprensible-, y era inevitable viajar en vertical, hacia los altos pisos de los altísimos rascacielos. Para mí sólo el tercer punto tenía muy serios inconvenientes: las alturas me dan vértigo.
"When the Familiar Becomes Alien" - ArtNet.com, June 25, 2010
I took the artist Rafael Ferrer, who is the subject of a career retrospective at El Museo del Barrio, over to the Whitney Museum to meet Whit director Adam Weinberg and see the Charles Burchfield retrospective there. My purpose was to address a problem in my own life: how, through a series of optimistic mistakes, I ended up living, for the last four years, in a forest that I was ill prepared to exist in.
"How a Little History Sweetens the Immigration Debate" - Huffington Post, June 23, 2010
There are many lessons that the rich and complex Nueva York can teach us. One of them is that Spanish-speaking immigrants were central to the growth and prosperity of New York, long before America's greatest city reached its current milestone of having a population that is almost one-third Latino.
"After Process, a Return to the Tropics" - New York Times, June 10, 2010
Thanks to El Museo del Barrio the artist Rafael Ferrer, at 77, is finally having his moment. “Retro/Active: The Work of Rafael Ferrer,” his first large museum survey, spans more than five decades, with nearly 200 works in just about every late-20th-century medium except film and video.
"Art After the Chicano Movement" -The Village Voice, April 6, 2010
If you check your 2010 Census form, "Chicano" appears as an option for people of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin. But it's not the first choice; "Mexican" and "Mexican Am." precede it. Even in the context of "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement," at El Museo del Barrio, the term often gets tossed aside. One event advertised its speaker as a "post-Mexican." Wall labels and the catalog freely admit that many of the artists in the show don't identify as Chicano, that it's just a "curatorial point of departure."