Sales of Miguel Luciano’s “El Met” merchandise will help fund acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Young Lords’ Fire Will Not Go Out
Mapping Resistance: The Young Lords in El Barrio, a public art exhibition on the civil rights organization, displays the group’s spirit of refusal to accept our skewed legal, political, economic, and social organization system.
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An Artist on How the Met Is Reaching Beyond the Museum with a New Civic Engagement Residency
In June, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it was launching an initiative to support partnerships for artists who have a social practice focus. We reached out to one of the artists, Miguel Luciano, to find out what this initiative means to him and his work.
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In Harlem, a New Triennial Parses the Historical, Political, and Social Context of “Uptown”
The inaugural show at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery spotlights 25 artists living or practicing north of 99th Street.
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Crossing Brooklyn, Without Leaving the Safe Parts
Let’s begin with the obvious: to attempt a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary art from across Brooklyn would be not only impossible but foolish, a kind of Tower of Babel of artistic practice. And so the Brooklyn Museum’s eagerly awaited Crossing Brooklyn is not a sweeping survey but a tight, thematic show, focused mostly on one specific type of art making manifest throughout the borough.
