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El Museo del Barrio celebrates its reopening with a free open house on Saturday
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The Empire State building will shine "mango yellow" this weekend to salute the reopening of El Museo del Barrio on 5th Avenue at 104th Street. The museum, which has been devoted to Latino art and culture since its inception 40 years ago, has recently been closed for more than a year in order to accommodate a $35 million redesign by the architectural firm Gruzen Samton.
"We've been a museum for a long time," says Julián Zugazagoitia, director of El Museo. "But now we look like a museum."
To celebrate the much anticipated occasion, El Museo is hosting a free open house on Saturday, October 17 from 11 am to 9 pm. The open house welcomes the community to a variety of events, including gallery tours, musical performances, book readings by Latino writers and film screenings.
Saturday also kicks off the opening of two exhibitions in its beautiful new galleries: Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, and Voces y Visiones: Four Decades through El Museo’s Permanent Collection.
For more information about El Museo and the festivities on Saturday, click on the link below.
El Museo del Barrio – 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street) – 212-831-7272
Stay tuned to my page for a review of Nexus New York, coming soon.
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