EL MUSEO'S HISTORY

2000s A New Era

The current mission is finalized to include Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States. An oral history and Permanent Collection project is completed consisting of a 5-volume publication and a traveling exhibition. And a large-scale capital project is underway on El Museo’s façade, lobby, galleries, and offices. All facilities scheduled to be open by the end of the decade, coinciding with the launch of a newly renovated website and El Museo’s 45^th Anniversary.

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2000

FEBRUARY

The Board of Trustees approves a mission statement that acknowledges the special role of the Puerto Rican founding community while including peoples of diverse Latin American heritages. The current mission statement reads: “The Mission of El Museo del Barrio is to present and preserve the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States.”

FEBRUARY 10–MAY 21

Latin American Still Life: Reflections of Time and Place, organized by the Katonah Museum of Art and curated by Edward J. Sullivan and Clayton Kirking, is presented. The exhibition includes works by Julio Alpuy, Antonio Henrique Amaral, Alexander Apóstol, Humberto Aquino, Fernando Botero, Claudio Bravo, Hermann Camargo, Elena Climent, Alberto Gironella, Juan González, José Gurvich, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Julio Larráz, Roberto Márquez, Francisco Matto, Ana Mendieta, Amalia Mesa- Bains, Tina Modotti, Armando Morales, Mario Cravo Neto, Alejandro Obregón, Francisco Oller y Cestero, Sylvia Ordoñez, Amelia Peláez, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Emilio Pettoruti, Liliana Porter, Ernesto Pujol, Diego Rivera, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Soledad Salme, Edgar Soberón, Juan Soriano, Rufiño Tamayo, Einar de la Torre, Jamex de la Torre, Milagros de la Torre, Augusto Torres, Joaquín Torres-García, Emilio Torti, and Nahum B. Zenil. It is accompanied by a 48-page catalogue.

FEBRUARY 10–MAY 21

Contemporánea: Mexique, a site-specific installation by Franco Mondini-Ruíz, curated by Julia P. Herzberg, and accompanied by a 6-page brochure, is on view.

FEBRUARY 10–MAY 21

Carlos Irizarry: The Sixties Plus Picasso, A Suite of Prints from the Permanent Collection, curated by Yasmín Ramírez, is on view.

JUNE 13–SEPTEMBER 24

El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files, curated by Deborah Cullen and Yasmín Ramírez, is presented. The second installation of the Bienal highlights works by 28 artists: Manuel Acevedo, Allora & Calzadilla, María Elena Álvarez, Soledad Arias, Jaime Arredondo, Sandra Bermúdez, Fernanda Brunet, Alejandro Díaz, Pablo Helguera, Elisa Victoria Jiménez, Ivelisse Jiménez, Jota’e, Georges Le Chevallier, Malika, Rossana Martínez, Domingo Nuño, Emilio Perez, Rabindranat, Paul Henry Ramírez, H.A. Rodríguez-Mora, Moses Ros, Scherezade, Miguel Trelles, Juana Váldes, Vargas-Suárez Universal, and Lucia Warck-Meister. The exhibition is accompanied by a 36-page catalogue.

JUNE 13–SEPTEMBER 24

Contemporánea: Conversion of Manners, a site-specific installation by Ernesto Pujol, curated by Julia P. Herzberg, and accompanied by a 6-page brochure, is on view.

OCTOBER 4–DECEMBER 3

¡Llegaron los Muertos! Monumentos para los que viven en nuestro corazón, by Santiago-Hoge, a collaborative installation by artistperformer Glen M. Santiago and composer-artist John Hoge, is presented. It is accompanied by a 6-page brochure.

OCTOBER 26, 2000– SEPTEMBER 14, 2003

Taíno: Ancient Voyagers of the Caribbean, curated by Dicey Taylor, is on view. The first phase of a long-term, rotating installation of pre-Columbian art from the Caribbean, Taíno includes over 100 ceremonial and domestic objects in stone, wood, bone, ceramic, and shell, from El Museo’s Permanent Collection as well as other major institutions and private collections. The exhibition provides an overview of the history, cosmology, art, and culture of the Taíno, and is accompanied by a 12-page brochure.

OCTOBER 26, 2000– JANUARY 14, 2001

Latin American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, curated by Ricardo Viera, Professor of Art and Director/Curator of Lehigh University Art Galleries, is presented. The exhibition includes photographs by Silvia Agostoni, Mario Algaze, Juan Carlos Alom, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Alexander Apóstol, Karina Barg, Charles Biasiny-Rivera, Maria Magdelena Campos Pons, Fernando Castro, Elizabeth Cerejido, Martín Chambi, Laura Cohen, Mario Cravo Neto, Valdir Cruz, Jack Delano, Joan Fontcuberta, Carlos Garaicoa, Flor Garduño, Luis González-Palma, Gory (Rogelio Lopez Marín), Robert Huarcaya, Muriel H. Hasbun, Graciela Iturbide, Silvia Lizama, Chema Madóz, Adál, Luis Mallo, Patricia Martin, María Martínez- Cañas, “Marucha” María Eugenia Haya, Ana María McCarthy, Héctor Méndez Caratini, Tony Mendoza, Tina Modotti, Delilah Montoya, Cirenda Moreira, Vic Muniz, Eduardo Muñoz, Sandro Oramas, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Liliana Porter, Miguel Rio Branco, Geno Rodríguez, Andrés Serrano, Javier Meniel Silva, Kathy Vargas, Cassio Vasconcellos, Victor Vásquez, and Marina Yampolsky; Abelardo Morell creates a walk-in camera obscura in the galleries. The exhibition is accompanied by a poster-brochure, and a 72-page catalogue.

NOVEMBER 19, 2000– JANUARY 7, 2001

Mexican Folk Masks from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, curated by Fatima Bercht and Noel Valentín, is presented at the Parrish Art Museum (Southampton, NY).

DECEMBER 9, 2000– JANUARY 14, 2001

Nacimiento, curated by Fatima Bercht, is on view. Renovations in Teatro Heckscher end; the refurbished facility is opened for Three Kings Day.

Contemporanea: Mexique by Franco Mondini-Ruíz (photo by Eddie Bartolomei).

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2001

JANUARY–MAY

El Museo del Barrio launches an Oral History project to document its early history. Yasmín Ramírez serves as researcher.

FEBRUARY 8–MAY 20

Here & There/Aquí y Allá: Six Artists from San Juan, curated by Deborah Cullen, is presented. The exhibition includes installations by six artists from Puerto Rico: Nayda Collazo Llorens, Charles Juhász Alvarado, Ana Rosa Rivera Marrero, Freddie Mercado, Carlos Rivera Villafañe, and Aaron Salabarrías Valle. Accompanied by a 108-page catalogue, the exhibition later travels to The Blaffer Art Gallery, The University of Houston, TX (January 19–March 17, 2002).

FEBRUARY 8–MAY 20

FOCOS: Antonio Frasconi’s “Let America Be America Again,” organized by Fatima Bercht, is presented. The exhibition highlights a portfolio of prints that includes Langston Hughes’s poem. It is accompanied by a 6-page brochure.

FEBRUARY 8–MAY 20

Contemporánea: Neighbors, a site-specific installation by Leandro Erlich, curated by Julia P. Herzberg, and accompanied by a 6 page brochure, is on view.

APRIL 18–JULY 29

Puerto Rican Santos de Palo: Sculptures Between Heaven and Earth, curated by Fatima Bercht, is presented at the Newark Museum.

JUNE 12–SEPTEMBER 16

Voices from Our Communities: Perspectives on a Decade of Collecting at El Museo del Barrio, is presented. Organized by Susana Torruella Leval, with Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Yasmín Ramírez, Margarita Aguilar, Noel Valentín, Miriam de Uriarte, María Dominguez and Lili Santiago Silva, the exhibition includes over 100 works from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio. Artists highlighted are: Adál, Luis Arenal, Diógenes Ballester, Hugo Xavier Bastidas, Bartolomé de las Casas, Clothaire Bazile León, Rolando Briseño, Ramón Cabán, Antonio Caro, Melba Carillo, Alfredo Ceibal, Esteban Chávez S., Raphael Collazo, Rafael Colón Morales, Alicia Creus, Martiza Dávila, Richard S. Duardo, León Ferrari, Rafael Ferrer, Clemente Flores, Edgar Francheschi, Rupert García, Nelson Garrido, Beatriz González, Louis “the Foot” González, Sonia Guisado, Greg Gutiérrez, Marina Gutiérrez, Anna Ruth Henriques, Ester Hernández, Miriam Hernández, Carmen Herrera, Lorenzo Homar, Alfredo Jaar, J.J.R.M., Leandro Katz, Carmen Lomas Garza, Armando Londoño, Gilbert Luján, Anna María Maiolino, Manuel Macarulla, Carlos Marichal, Antonio Martorell, Julio Mateo, Fernando L. Matías, Carlos Mérida, Mestre Nosa (Inocencio de Costa Nick), Julio Mitchel, Nicholasa Mohr, Rafael Montañez Ortíz, Arnaldo Morales, Edgar Moreno, Oscar Muñoz, Antoine Oleyant, Mari Mater O’Neil, J. Ortíz-Tajonar, Pepón Osorio, Nestor Otero, Ambra Polidori, Liliana Porter, Nick Quijano, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell, Eduardo Roca Salazar (aka “Choco”), Geno Rodríguez, Fernando Salicrup, Juan Sánchez, Hilario Silva, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Carlos Sueños, Marius Sznajderman, Luis Eligio Tapia, José Antonio Torres Martinó, Nitza Tufiño, Rafael Tufiño, Arturo Urista, Patssi Valdez, Ruben Valentim, Inocensio Vásquez, Manuel Vega, Tony Vélez, Pablo Yglesias, and others. The exhibition is accompanied by a 40-page catalogue.

JUNE 12–SEPTEMBER 16

Contemporánea: Permanent Visibility, a site-specific installation by Ingrid Menéndez, curated by Deborah Cullen, and accompanied by a 6- page brochure, is on view.

OCTOBER 13, 2001– FEBRUARY 3, 2002

O Fio da Trama/The Thread Unraveled: Contemporary Brazilian Art, curated by Fatima Bercht, is presented. The exhibition includes works by 21 artists including Efrain Almeida, Brígida Baltar, Miguel Río Branco, Fábio Carvalho, Paulo Climachauska, Rochelle Costi, Eliane Duarte, Tatiana Grinberg, Luiz Hermano, Hilal Sami Hilal, Lina Kim, Leonilson, Anna Linnemann, Marepe, Vera Martins, Vincente de Mello, Monken, Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto, Nazareth Pacheco, and Laura Vinci. It is accompanied by a 144-page catalogue and later travels to Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires-Colección Constantini/MALBA, (April–June 2002).

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2002

APRIL 28–SEPTEMBER 26

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, an internationally travelling exhibition, is on view. The presentation, courtesy The Vergel Foundation, New York (Robert R. Littman, President); Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), and The Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), México, highlights over 100 works by 20 artists: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Emilio Baz Vivaud, Leonora Carrington, Rafael Cidoncha, Miguel Covarrubias, Gunter Gerzso, María Izquierdo, Agustín Lazo, Carlos Mérida, Roberto Montenegro, José Clemente Orozco, Carlos Orozco Romero, Jesús Reyes Ferreira, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siquieros, Juan Soriano, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Toledo, and Ángel Zarraga. The exhibition is accompanied by a 22-page brochure and a 96-page catalogue.

JUNE 30

Susana Torruella Leval retires after 12 years of service to El Museo del Barrio. She is named Director Emeritus by the Board of Trustees.

SEPTEMBER 14–NOVEMBER 17

Treasures from El Mueso del Barrio is presented at the Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, NY). A pilot project for Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, the exhibition features over 75 works and is accompanied by a 12-page brochure.

OCTOBER 24, 2002– FEBRUARY 16, 2003

El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files/The Selected Files, curated by Deborah Cullen and Victoria Noorthoorn, Curator, MALBA, (Argentina), is presented. The third installation of the Bienal highlights works by 30 artists: including María Alós, Isidro Blasco, François Bucher, Margarita Cabrera, Bibi Calderaro, Javier Cambre, Paco Cao, Karlos Cárcamo, Alejandro Cesarco, Nicolás Dumit Estevez, Alessandra Expósito, Cari González- Casanova, Julio Grinblatt, Nicolás Guagnini, Claudia Joskowicz, Miguel Luciano, Tristana Macció, Chico MacMurtrie, Enrique Méndez de Hoyos, Yucef Merhi, neuroTransmitter, Vicente Razo, Aixa Requena, Ryan Rivera, Raimundo Rubio Huidobro, Karin Schneider, Alejandra Seeber, Leticia Stella Serra, Rigoberto Torres, and Judi Werthein. The exhibition is accompanied by an 82-page catalogue.

NOVEMBER 18

Julián Zugazagoitia is appointed Executive Director of El Museo del Barrio. Zugazagoitia previously served as Executive Assistant to the Director, and Project Director, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY).

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2003

MARCH 13–OCTOBER 5

FOCOS: Rafael Tufiño: Painter of the People/Pintor del Pueblo, organized by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (San Juan) and curated by Dr. Teresa Tió, is presented. The retrospective includes over 100 paintings, drawings, graphics, and a re-creation of the artist’s studio, and is accompanied by a 256-page catalogue. El Museo del Barrio kicks off the celebration of its 35th Anniversary year by culminating its collection research in the organization of this Permanent Collection highlights travelling exhibition and catalogue, Voces y Visiones.

NOVEMBER 13, 2003– FEBRUARY 8, 2004

Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, curated by Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Margarita Aguilar, and Noel Valentin, with project coordinator Melisa Luján, is presented. Accompanied by 48-page exhibition catalogue and a 316- page, 5-volume boxed set, the exhibition debuts at Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (July 20–October 19, 2003); and travels to the Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY (March 21–May 16, 2004); Munson- Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY (October 31, 2004–January 2, 2005); Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, (Spring 2005); and Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, GA (Summer 2005), among other venues.

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2004

After several years of fundraising, El Museo undertakes a major capital project to renovate its facitly at the Heckscher Building, including the Fifth Avenue façade, the 104th Street entrance, the lobby, and the museum shop.

MARCH 4–JULY 25

MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, a collaboration between El Museo del Barrio and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and curated by Fatima Bercht and Deborah Cullen (El Museo) and Miriam Basilio, Gary Garrels, and Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas (MoMA), the exhibition will include over 140 works of painting, sculpture, graphics, drawings, artists’ books, and installations spanning from the 1920s to the present, and will be accompanied by a 190-page catalogue co-published by El Museo del Barrio and MoMA.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2004– FEBRUARY 2005

Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits, curated by Fatima Bercht (El Museo), Carolyn Carr (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC), and Marion Oettinger (San Antonio Museum of Fine Arts, TX), debuts at El Museo. This nationally-travelling exhibition will include over 100 works from collections in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America spanning from the pre- Columbian to contemporary periods.

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