Celebrate Museum Mile with us as we take over la calle with music, art-making, dance, and performance art! One day a year, nine of the country’s finest museums that call Fifth Avenue home open their doors from 6pm – 9pm for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills Museum Mile from 82nd to 105th street.
Start the party at El Museo, and be one of the first to see EL MUSEO’S BIENAL: The (S) Files 2011 on its first day open to the public. Our sixth biennial dubbed “The Street Files”takes on a broad exploration of the visual energy, events and aesthetics of the street. The exhibition features the most innovative, cutting-edge art created by Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American artists currently working in the New York area. This year’s edition spreads all over the city, showcasing a record 75 emerging artists in seven different venues.
SCHEDULE OF EL MUSEO ACTIVITIES
| 5:30pm | Sound presentation: DJ Sonidero Potencia Latina |
| 6:00pm | Exhibitions On view: EL MUSEO’S BIENAL: The (S) Files 2011 opens to the public! VOCES Y VISIONES: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection; Art-making activity: Create your own headdress Photo booth: Passport to El Barrio |
| 6:30pm | Performance: Capoeira and West African dance by Harlem’s Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts, in conjunction with Museum for African Art |
| 7:00pm | Performance art: Artist Rafael Sánchez will re-create Papo Colo’s 1977 performance piece Superman 51 |
| 7:15pm | Live music: Johnny Colón and his Orchestra |
| 8:15pm | Sound presentation: DJ Sonidero Potencia Latina |
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