This project examines the visual arts across the Caribbean basin and its diapora during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. An international advisory group is developing a series of events and scholarly discussions throughout the region leading to the multi-venue exhibition. Highlighting rarely-seen works, the exhibition will travel nationally and throughout the Caribbean. Caribbean: Crossroads of the World will also contribute a major resource publication to the field.

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NEXUS: NEW YORK 1900-1945.
ENCOUNTERS IN THE MODERN METROPOLIS
Curated by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs, El Museo del Barrio

This landmark exhibition, marking El Museo del Barrio’s grand re-opening, will focus on key Caribbean and Latin American artists who traveled to and resided in New York during the early decades of the twentieth century, participating in its lively artistic dialogues. Significant trailblazers from the islands and South America gravitated to the City’s institutional centers---including the Art Students League, the Museum of Modern Art, the Siqueiros Experimental Workshop, and The New School for Social Research, among others---where they entered dynamic exchanges with the American and European avant-garde. These artists then journeyed onward, often returning to their home countries where they transmitted their newfound ideals and inspiration. These early metropolitan exchanges led to important developments in the international art world, and reverberated significantly in a multitude of directions. The character and contributions of these key figures, in relationship to their non-Latino colleagues, and these dialectical exchanges will be explored in Nexus: New York for the first time.