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Event: “Rooftop Films” at El Museo (The Latin Americanist)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:30:00 GMT

The Rooftop Films Summer Series continues tonight with a screening tonight at New York’s El Museo Del Barrio. The museum (one of the most underrated in the Big Apple, I believe) will feature music by “Puerto Rican electro-pop quartet” Balun, then feature the movie “Up With Me”. According to Rooftop Films’ website , the film looks at several dilemmas: “In school, they taught us about great...

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Rooftop Films Brings You La Corona y Alguna Tristeza in NYC (VivirLatino)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:28:09 GMT

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...

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July at El Museo del Barrio (UPTOWNflavor)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:27:02 GMT

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, [...]

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A Night of Yerbabuena and Rooftop Films (UPTOWNflavor)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:16:41 GMT

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...

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Midori and Friends (UPTOWNflavor)

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:08:01 GMT

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....

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Today in NY: Museum Mile Fest, Joba starts, Twyla premiere (NewYorkology: A New York Travel Gui)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:33:43 GMT

It is Tuesday, June 3 and here are some things to do today in NY:Free from 6 to 9 p.m. with free access to the Met, Guggenheim, the Frick, the Neue Galerie, the Cooper-Hewitt, the Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, El Museo del Barrio and Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center. opens at the Met MuseumJoba Chamberlain...

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Toreador, Don't Spit on the Floor: We Charge Like Wild-Eyed Bull Through El Museo Gala (The Politicker)

Tue, 27 May 2008 22:49:49 GMT

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...

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Video: Nicole Miller, Simon Doonan, and Miss USA at El Museo Gala (Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine)

Fri, 23 May 2008 17:38:39 GMT

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...

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Pictures from El Museo del Barrio's Quinceñero (VivirLatino)

Fri, 23 May 2008 14:13:24 GMT

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...

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El Museo del Barrio Has It's Quinceñero Tonight (VivirLatino)

Thu, 22 May 2008 13:00:00 GMT

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...

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James Cañón: Every Debut Fiction Jury's Fave? (MediaBistro.com)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:13:54 GMT

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...

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Phantom Sightings Exhibit Opens this Sunday at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (University of California Press Blog)

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:35:47 GMT

... 6 - September 1, 2008 Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, October-December 2008 El Museo del Barrio and the Americas Society, New York, March-May 2009 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Summer 2009 UC Press Spring 2008 catalog cover: Carlee Fernandez, Bear Head and Arms Study I , 2004. C-print, 30 x 42" . Courtesy of the artist and Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles....

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Spic Up! Speak Out! (UPTOWNflavor)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:59:21 GMT

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 [...]

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Rafael Tufiño, Puerto Rican Artist, Is Dead at 85 (VivirLatino)

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:30:49 GMT

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...

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Spic Up! Speak Out! This Spring at El Museo del Barrio (Blabbeando)

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:27:00 GMT

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....

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Discover East Harlem: Walking Tour (MCNY.org Public Programs - all)

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:30:08 GMT

This walking tour will highlight some of the historical and cultural treasures of East Harlem, a neighborhood that has been home to diverse ethnic groups over the past 150 years and is best known as the cradle of the Nuyorican Movement. Stops will include El Museo del Barrio, the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Church, Metropolis Studios, and the First...

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Milly Quezada, 'Queen of Merengue,' to Launch Partnership to Educate Latino Seniors About Health Care Rights (PR News Wire )

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMT

'Su Salud. Su Voz.' Campaign to Address Lack of Public Awareness of Right to File Medicare Quality of Care Complaints LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Merengue Queen" Milly Quezada will join leaders of health care organizations and senior groups, along with public officials today at Manhattan's El Museo del Barrio to launch the Su Salud. Su Voz. Partnership to...

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When the Conceptual Was Political (New York Times)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:36:33 GMT

The performance works in El Museo del Barrio’s show constitute very effective agitprop meldings of idealism and activism.

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Art Review | 'Arte No Es Vida': When the Conceptual Was Political (New York Times)

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:36:33 GMT

The performance works in El Museo del Barrio’s show constitute very effective agitprop meldings of idealism and activism.

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The Best of 2007 - Art: THE TOP 10 (New York Newsday)

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:00:00 GMT

... It's easy to forget that art really can unsettle and wound. The works in "The Disappeared," at El Museo del Barrio, dealt with the horrors wrought by state-sponsored terrorism in Latin America. They got under your eyelids and stayed there even after you turned away.7. "KARA WALKER: MY COMPLEMENT, MY ENEMY, MY OPPRESSOR, MY LOVE." A disquieting retrospective of Walker's work at the...

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