El Museo del Barrio inaugurates "Something Beautiful: Reframing The Collection"

On May 19, El Museo del Barrio (New York) will inaugurate the exhibition "Something Beautiful: Reframing The Collection," a show aimed to rethink and reflect on the museum's permanent collection. Museo del Barrio was founded in 1969 in order to fill a void in the exhibition and promotion of Latin American artists in the United States. Over the years, its collection has been built up, resulting in a collection of works that make up a complex and culturally diverse group.
"Something Beautiful: Reframing The Collection" proposes new ways of categorizing the collection, no longer giving weight to a chronological or stylistic line, but rather a thematic approach, as a guide for exhibiting five hundred works from the museum's permanent collection that bring together Puerto Rican, Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American cultural identities. The exhibition also explores themes such as African and indigenous heritages, urban experiences, strategies of self-representation, and craft-art intersections.
This exhibition was organized by Rodrigo Moura (Chief Curator), Susanna V. Temkin (Curator), and Lee Sessions (Associate Curator of the Permanent Collection). The exhibition was the result of a dialogue that took place within the framework of the symposium "Identity Reimagined: Reframing The Collection," which brought together more than 40 professionals on the matter.
The exhibition will be on view through March of next year at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Avenue at 104th Street, New York, NY 10029.