Wednesday, July 29, 2009
New slideshow
Hello all, we've just added a slide show featuring images from the Curatorial Team's visit to Curaçao and Aruba. Among the images are pictures of our visits to Landhuis Kenepa, the Mongui Maduro Library, and an architectural tour of the historic Otrobanda neighborhood in Willemstad, Curaçao.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
TWO GREAT SHOWS FEATURING LATINAS...
This week, two exhibitions featuring Caribbean Latinas have opened. A solo show of work by Dominicana Firelei Baez, http://fireleibaez.com/, at Kaffe 1664 (a fab coffee shop at 275 Greenwich St., NYC) and "A Black and White World" at Black and White Gallery (Chelsea Terminal Warehouse 636 W. 28th St.) featuring the work of New York-born Dominicana, Elia Alba, http://eliaalba.com/.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Trip to Curaçao and Aruba. May 2009
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World organizational team of made a recent trip to Curaçao and Aruba at the end of May 2009. Coordinating efforts and logistics for the New York team were headed by Susan Delvalle, Director of External Affairs at El Museo del Barrio, with the host partners, three specialists in the Dutch Caribbean: art historian and curator Jennifer Smit, collector and historian Nicole Henriquez and curator and Co-Director of Instituto Buena Bista, Nancy Hoffman. A two-day research trip to Aruba was also scheduled for the group, organized by Ruby Eckmeyer, Secretary-General, Directorate of Culture in Aruba and a designated commission of artists. The trip had multiple purposes. It was organized in order to make a brief survey of art scene in Curaçao and Aruba as well as to present and promote the Caribbean Crossroads project to various audiences. We also hoped to explore the legacy of colonialism in the Anglophone Caribbean. Finally, we also sought to have a closer meeting with our invitees and colleagues in order to discuss the most recent project proposal developed by the curatorial department at El Museo with Elvis Fuentes, Curator, as Project Director.
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is a multi-year and multi-venue project conceived as a series of city-wide conversations and public programs that will culminate in a milestone exhibition and publication in Fall 2011. The project looks at the arts of the Caribbean Basin and its Diaspora through the lens of the region’s complex history and rich culture.
Caribbean will explore the wide range and variety of aesthetic expressions that have developed with the region’s history since the Europeans arrived in the wake of Modernity. Although centering on the era opened by the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), which represented autonomy and self-determination for the region, Caribbean will also span from the early colonization period to the present, dealing with subjects such as slavery, geography, commerce, migration, hybridism and paradise.
As a project already three years in the planning, an international team of renowned curators specializing in Caribbean art have fostered the conversations held among colleagues in our institutions since the project’s inception in June 2006. Also, an Advisory Committee formed by prominent scholars has been nurturing the discussions on these essential topics.
El Museo del Barrio will lead the project and has assigned Elvis Fuentes as Project Director and Rebeca Noriega as Project Manager of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World. Hitomi Iwasaki and Naomi Beckwith will be Project Managers at the Queens Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem respectively. The catalogue of the exhibition will be a scholarly book and its editorial team will be led by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio.
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World seeks to break barriers and create new paths of understanding about the paradigmatic contributions of the Caribbean to modern and contemporary culture. Proudly, our museums will become the first to do so on such an extensive scale.
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is organized by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with The Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem. These institutions were founded at approximately the same time (1968-1972) out of similar social and political needs and each are currently growing; expanding their facilities and undertaking capital renovations. The collaboration will link all three for the first time, connecting the narratives of their development while highlighting their core cross-cultural constituency.
Research and development of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is made possible by generous mutli-year support from The Reed Foundation and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Caribbean will explore the wide range and variety of aesthetic expressions that have developed with the region’s history since the Europeans arrived in the wake of Modernity. Although centering on the era opened by the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), which represented autonomy and self-determination for the region, Caribbean will also span from the early colonization period to the present, dealing with subjects such as slavery, geography, commerce, migration, hybridism and paradise.
As a project already three years in the planning, an international team of renowned curators specializing in Caribbean art have fostered the conversations held among colleagues in our institutions since the project’s inception in June 2006. Also, an Advisory Committee formed by prominent scholars has been nurturing the discussions on these essential topics.
El Museo del Barrio will lead the project and has assigned Elvis Fuentes as Project Director and Rebeca Noriega as Project Manager of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World. Hitomi Iwasaki and Naomi Beckwith will be Project Managers at the Queens Museum of Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem respectively. The catalogue of the exhibition will be a scholarly book and its editorial team will be led by Deborah Cullen, Director of Curatorial Programs at El Museo del Barrio.
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World seeks to break barriers and create new paths of understanding about the paradigmatic contributions of the Caribbean to modern and contemporary culture. Proudly, our museums will become the first to do so on such an extensive scale.
Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is organized by El Museo del Barrio in collaboration with The Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem. These institutions were founded at approximately the same time (1968-1972) out of similar social and political needs and each are currently growing; expanding their facilities and undertaking capital renovations. The collaboration will link all three for the first time, connecting the narratives of their development while highlighting their core cross-cultural constituency.
Research and development of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World is made possible by generous mutli-year support from The Reed Foundation and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
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