Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección
El Museo del Barrio’s most ambitious presentation of its unique, complex, and culturally diverse permanent collection in over two decades.
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El Museo del Barrio
May 19, 2023 to March 10, 2024
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Exhibition Details

This exhibition is El Museo del Barrio’s most ambitious presentation of its unique, complex, and culturally diverse permanent collection in over two decades. Organized by Rodrigo Moura, Chief Curator; Susanna V. Temkin, Curator; and Lee Sessions, Permanent Collection Associate Curator, the exhibition will present approximately 500 artworks, including new acquisitions and artist commissions, through rotating displays over the course of one year. Something Beautiful cuts across traditional chronological, geographic, and media-specific categories, reconsidering the Collection through new interdisciplinary approaches rooted in El Museo del Barrio’s foundational history and legacy. This forward-thinking model focuses on the contribution of Amerindian, African, and European cultures as the basis of visual production in the Americas and the Caribbean.

Additional Details

The first rotation of Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección is organized in eight sections plus seven artist spotlights. Themes and motifs reappear across sections to create a larger conversation throughout the exhibition.

Location

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
New York, NY 10029

Image: Detail from Augusto Marín, 1873–1973, 1973 / courtesy of El Museo del Barrio