VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
If I weren't running around with the LAMC, I'd be on a rooftop watching movies. Tonight, Rooftop Films, on the roof of el Museo del Barrio in espanish Harlem features two Latin American reels, La Corona y Alguna Tristeza.Alguna Tristeza...
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Summer Nights at El Museo - Women on the Verge Thursday, July 10, performance begins at 7:00 pm — Cecilia Villar Eljuri Ecuadoran Latin and World-beat phenom Cecilia Villar Eljuri’s latest release titled “En Paz” melds the music of Cecilia’s heritage with honest lyrics and powerful dance-inciting rhythms. Sung primarily in her native language of Spanish, [...]
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
FRIDAY, JULY 11TH @ 8PM The beauty and melancholy of Latin America are intertwined in documentaries from Colombia and Peru & the Borucua Roots Music of NYC. Explore the work of contemporary Latino filmmakers, enjoy the infectious music of YERBABUENA, and support El Barrio. Date: Friday, July 11, 2008 Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm Location: El Museo del Barrio /El Museo’s top floor [...]
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Hosted by MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ Co-Anchor CBS News’ The Early Show Saturday | June 21, 2008 | 3-4:30 pm El Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Ave (entrance on 104th St.) Manhattan, NY For directions visit: www.elmuseo.org Watch as 160 children and adults from Midori & Friends programs light up the stage,performing music from Afro-Brazilian, western classical, Mexican, and other world traditions. Featured performers...
NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
It is Tuesday, June 3 and here are some things to do today in NY: Free Museum Mile Festival from 6 to 9 p.m. with free access to the Met, Guggenheim, the Frick, the Neue Galerie, the Cooper-Hewitt, the Jewish...
The Politicker (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
During El Museo del Barrio’s 15th annual gala at the 42nd Street Cipriani on Thursday, May 22, tiaras were distributed on trays, in keeping with the Latin American tradition of the quinceañera (kinda like a sweet 16 but a year earlier and more formal). Miss Teen USA Hilary Cruz and Miss USA Crystle Stewart arrived wearing their own recently bestowed crowns. Cute , ladies! The event was co-chaired...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Last night El Museo del Barrio celebrated its 15th birthday with a party at Cipriani's. So Fabiola Beracasa got her party dress on and hit the cocktail hour with a video crew. The theme was Quinceañera, the Latin version of an American sweet-sixteen party. Simon Doonan dressed for the occasion in an insect-patterned shirt, which he explains is very tropical and therefore Latin. Nicole Miller donned...
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Last night el Museo del Barrio held its 15th Annual Gala. Yours truly grabbed her tiara and headed to Cipriani's in midtown Manhattan to spot the beautiful people and drink champagne at the Quinceñero. As you can see from the...
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
El Museo del Barrio, located in Spanish Harlem, New York City, is actually older than 15 years old, but I'm able to stay quiet about an institution's age. Founded in 1969, by a group of artists and community activists, tonight...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
When James Cañón reads at El Museo del Barrio tomorrow night, he'll be taking a brief break from his month-long residency at Ledig House , one of many writer's retreats in which the young novelist has participated. We met a few weeks ago, just before he left the city, and he was excited to be spending an extended period of time in the company of other international authors while he resumes work on...
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement—the companion exhibit to the recent UC Press book by Rita Gonzalez, Howard N. Fox, and Chon A. Noriega—opens its doors this Sunday, April 6, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)....
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
El Museo Presents Spic Up! Speak Out! 3rd Saturdays of the month, March through May, 2008, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm SPIC UP! SPEAK OUT! Latino Spoken Word Open Mic Recognizing the influence and power of Latino poets on New York City's spoken word culture, El Museo del Barrio provides established and emerging Latino/a spoken word artists with a [...]
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Over the weekend in Puerto Rico, flags were flying at half-staff by order of the governor, Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá. The island was mourning one of it's own hijos, painter and printmaker Rafael Tufiño, who died last Thursday in San Juan at...
Blabbeando (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
El Museo del Barrio launches its "Spic Up! Speak Out!" Spring performance series this Saturday, March 15th, with the wonderful, stupendous, mellifluous, confrontational, sexy, sensual, tough and sensational Mariposa as MC. In observance of Women's History Month, Mariposa will oversee a night of spoken word goodness from women poets melleSOL, Alba Hernandez, Sheila Maldonado and Sandra Garcia Rivera....
MCNY.org Public Programs - all (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
This walking tour will highlight some of the historical and cultural treasures of East Harlem.
