This lecture and conversation moderated by Chris Pape, with KEl1st, Skeme, and T-Kid is inspired by the exhibition "Henry Chalfant: Art vs. Transit, 1977 - 1987" on view at the Bronx Museum until March 8, 2020. Chris Pape, AKA "Freedom", will discuss the stylistic evolutions of graffiti, and moderates a lively conversation with three well-known writers, each of whom brings a different perspective.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, INK, inspired by Henry Chalfant: Arts vs. Transit, 1977 - 1987, on view at the Bronx Museum from September 25, 2019 - March 8, 2020. $15 tickets are available for purchase at www.themoth.org., along with a limited amount of complimentary tickets for Bronx residents.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of Henry Chalfant: Art vs. Transit, 1977 - 1987, curated by SUSO33.
Boogie on the Boulevard is an annual celebration of art, active living, and public space in the Bronx. For this event, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 162nd to 170th Street are closed to cars, and open to a world of culture, community, and fun!
Join us on the first Friday of the month for a glass of wine and meaningful reflection on our latest exhibition The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop. This event is a co-presentation with the Leslie-Lohman Museum.
Discover the Grand Concourse's rich history through its Art Deco architecture and design from the 1920s and 30s with the Art Deco Society of New York expert and Bronx historian Sam Goodman.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts invites you to Queer Pages, part of Comic Culture Prime, an adults only comic-art. Come discover the roots of LGBTQ+ characters in comic strips and animation, from pre-Hollywood and pre-code comics to the groundbreaking works break our hearts today.
Spend Saturday afternoon celebrating art, summer, and sustainability at the Bronx Museum of the Arts! Explore our exhibit Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing through family activities that (re)use everyday materials to create new works of art.
You're invited to a pop-art & live-drawing carnival celebrating the diversity of LGBTQ+ lives and 50 years of Stonewall. We will feature a pop-up art show, live performances, videos, a live DJ, amazing artists and their wares, and beautiful Queer models of various genders and shapes; all over 50 years of age.
Join us for the culminating event of Spoken Word 101, a series of workshops exploring the differences between performance and other types of poetry led by multicultural motivational speaker, storyteller and poet Bobby González. If you participated in the workshops or not come share your talents with friends at this open mic night. Located in the North Wing lobby.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts invites you to Sticky Pages 2, part of Comic Culture Prime, an adults only comic-art series. Explore 20th – 21st century erotica in comics during this workshop, featuring show-and-tell with giants of the industry and demo of the hottest techniques.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts invites you to Comic Culture Prime: Hot Blood, an adults only program that will feature a dark workshop on creating horror and suspense in comics.
This Saturday, 1pm, at the lower gallery of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, we will present ground-breaking comic book artist Chris Williams a.k.a. CrissCross, who's worked on titles like Blood Syndicate, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Justice League and Bloodshot for the biggest comic book companies in the world.
In conjunction with Tribeca Art & Culture Night, join artist Pacifico Silano for a tour of the exhibition Pacifico Silano: Speaking Little, Perhaps Not a Word.
Discover the Grand Concourse's rich history through its Art Deco architecture and design from the 1920s and 30s with the Art Deco Society of New York expert and Bronx historian Sam Goodman.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to The Block Gallery for the opening of Pacifico Silano: Speaking Little, Perhaps Not a Word featuring new photographic work by AIM artist-in-residence, Pacifico Silano.
Spoken Word 101 is a series of Tuesday workshops exploring the differences between performance and other types of poetry led by multicultural motivational speaker, storyteller and poet Bobby González.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, WHEELS, inspired by Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking and Seeing, on view at the Bronx Museum from March 27 - September 1, 2019. $15 tickets will be available for purchase on www.themoth.org one week prior to the event. A select amount of tickets are available HERE for Bronx residents.
Guests 65 and older are invited to a day of live entertainment, dancing, gallery tours, and more. Come early at 9AM for a special CommuniTea and hat making workshop with BRIO award-winning artist Michele Brody. RSVP here by Monday, May 27th for this free event. RSVP is required and space is limited.
A Spring series of Cartooning/Manga classes designed for the committed teen artist/writer that is interested in telling stories in different media. We focus on the dark terrifying side of Bronx mythology and legends and create short dynamic stories in manga and film forms. Free supplies provided, guest pro speakers, and all the monsters you can handle... and then some. For more information or to register email comicculturex@gmail.com or call 347-427-7553.
Pass on Phase One automatically gets you into Phase Two.
Join us at the Bronx Museum for the final performance of the BxMA CoLab Commission of The D.O.M.E. Experience – a jazz chamber orchestra production, including live spoken word, dance, and cinematography. The production will premiere new original works by Mimi Jones and ArcoIris Sandoval. It will also feature other musical selections inspired by the grace and power of Water, performed by the D.O.M.E. Experience orchestra, accompanied by choreography by Francesca Harper and cinematography designed with Jason Lalor. RSVP here.
In conjunction with the exhibition My Home Has Wings / Mi Casa Tiene Alas, artist Blanka Amezkua will lead a workshop on papel picado, the paper-cutting tradition of her native Mexico. The event will take place at The Block Gallery on 80 White Street in Tribeca.
You are cordially invited to the Bronx Museum's AIM downtown location, The Block Gallery at 80 White Street, for the opening of My Home Has Wings / Mi Casa Tiene Alas featuring a selection of recent work on mobility and migration by AIM artist-in-residence, Blanka Amezkua. RSVP here.
Discover how useless machines make for useful art at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Explore machines, dreams and art things during an afternoon of art-making activities inspired by nonsensical machines from around the world and peter campus’ participatory video works. Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent/caregiver. Pre-register here
The Bronx Museum of the Arts will hold its annual benefit and auction on Monday, April 8, 2019 at 6:30pm in Capitale on the Lower East Side. All proceeds enable the Museum to continue offering free public programs, Free Admission, internationally recognized exhibitions, and arts education programs to over 16,000 Bronx youth each year. Contact gala@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000 x 174 for more information or purchase tickets HERE.
To view pictures from the prior gala, please click here.
A special screening of peter campus’ Head of a Sad Young Woman, 1976-77, will be on view in Times Square from 11:57PM to midnight every night through the month of March. The display is part of the Midnight Moment exhibition program organized by the Times Square Alliance.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, WALLS, inspired by peter campus: video ergo sum, on view at the Bronx Museum from March 6 - July 22, 2019. $15 tickets are available on The Moth's website. Click HERE to register.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing, organized by Gerardo Mosquera.
On Monday, April 8, 2019, we will celebrate the museum with our annual gala. The silent and live auctions will raise funds needed to continue free admission to our internationally recognized exhibitions and educational programming.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is the only contemporary arts museum in NYC that is free 100% of the time. Through free admissions we encourage diversity and inclusivity and access to award winning exhibitions, educational and public programs.
Support the museum by bidding on works by Sanford Biggers, Loie Hollowell, Marilyn Minter, Eddie Martinez, Arcmanoro Niles, Angel Otero, Teresita Fernández, KAWS, and more!
Click here to preview and bid on works in the silent and live auctions. Bidding for the auction will close on Monday, April 8th at 10:00pm ET.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of peter campus: video ergo sum, organized by Jeu de Paume, Paris, with the participation of The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Location: The Block Gallery at 80 White Street
Rochelle Feinstein and Didier William in conversation to commemorate the release of Pls. Reply, the selected writings of Rochelle Feinstein, edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in collaboration with The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Stellar Projects.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, WITNESS, inspired by Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image currently on view at The Bronx Museum.
Learn about the creative process and engage with the artists at the first open studio for the CoLab Commission of The D.O.M.E. Experience for a jazz chamber orchestra production, including live spoken word, dance and cinematography.
Learn about the creative process and engage with the artists at the first open studio for the CoLab Commission of The D.O.M.E. Experience for a jazz chamber orchestra production, including live spoken word, dance and cinematography.
Determine the 2018 NYS Coquito Master! Taste award-winning coquitos from district winners across New York State.
Bronx entrepreneurs come together as vendors and innovators for a special holiday market!
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, DISTANCE, inspired by Christopher K. Ho: Aloha to the World from the Don Ho Terrace.
Join us for the Coquito Marqueta where the winners and finalists of past Coquito Masters will have their coquito for sale.
Please RSVP through Eventbrite
This year’s conference will explore the current wave of women’s empowerment and how it’s been historically reflected in artistic narrative - literature, media, visual art. We will specifically explore the #MeToo movement and how women such as bell hooks, Tarana Burke, and the founders of Black Lives Matter continue to hack at patriarchy.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of White Outs, organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts' Chief Curator Antonio Sergio Bessa.
Please RSVP through Eventbrite
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of Aloha to the World at the Don Ho Terrace, organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts' Chief Curator Antonio Sergio Bessa.
Please RSVP through Eventbrite
Tap into your inner goddess at Haus De La Blanca's Goddess Anniversary Ball at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Join us for a night of voguing and meet the legends of Ball culture.
Admission $15. Click here to purchase tickets through Eventbrite.
There are select number of free tickets available for Bronx residents. Email info@bronxmuseum.org with your zipcode for more information.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of Rochelle Feinstein: Image of an Image, organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts' Chief Curator Antonio Sergio Bessa.
Join us for the closing for Manuel Mendive: Nature, Spirit and Body with live praise poetry and music by Afro-cuban artist Orlando Ferrand and master percussionist Roman Diaz, featuring special praise poem readings by youth from P.S. 73 Highbridge.
Bronx Museum Board Chair Joseph Mizzi and Executive Director Deborah Cullen Invite You to Celebrate
AIM: The Next Level!
Thursday, October 25, 2018
80 White Street, 2nd Floor | Tribeca
Join us for the second of two nights of beats and biographies around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream. OneBeat Global Music Fellowship and DREAMers will collaboratively tell their stories on October 11th at The Bronx Museum of the Arts featuring musicians Aditya Alamuru, Margaryta Kulichova, Younes Kati, Akinyemi, Luciane Domingues, Andrès Torrens, Salma Solten and Zsolt Istvan Bartek.
Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Join us for two nights of beats and biographies around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream. An interactive public “Street Studio” on October 10th at Eddie’s Place African Market with DREAMers Juan Carlos Romero, Omar Vidal, Mouhamed Kaba, Sharna McKenzie; cultural anchor and owner of Eddie’s Place African Market, Esther Goldberg; and artist mentor collective Found Sound Nation and OneBeat 2018 Artists.
Location: Eddie’s Place African Market
5 E 167th St, Bronx, NY 10452
Carnegie Hall comes to The Bronx! The Bronx Museum presents in partnership with Carnegie Hall, First Fridays! Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Pedrito Martinez Group at the Bronx Museum.
Join us for a night of Afro-Cuban music with Grammy-nominated percussionist and vocalist, Pedrito Martinez and his group including musicians Isaac Delgado Jr., Sebastian Natal, and Jhair Sala.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of Aloha to the World at the Don Ho Terrace organized by BxMA Chief Curator Sergio Bessa.
6:30PM Meet the artist
Join us for a night of personal histories and hair sculpting around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream with DREAMer DREAMers Haide Manila and Andrea Resendiz Gomez; “gatekeepers,” local immigrant food vendors Ana Severino and Eligio Almonte Agente; cultural anchor and owner of Angela’s Salon, Angela Santana; and artist mentor Borinquen Gallo.
Location: Angela's Salon
1175 Grand Concourse #3, Bronx, NY 10452
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, ROADS, inspired by Manuel Mendive: Nature, Spirit, and Body. To be selected to participate, arrive by 7pm and enter your name in The Moth “hat.”
$10 Tickets will be available for purchase two weeks prior to the event date on www.themoth.org.
The Museum has a select number of free tickets for Bronx residents. RSVP at info@bronxmuseum.org.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and the Bronx Museum staff cordially invite you to meet and greet Bronx Museum Executive Director Deborah Cullen.
Join us for a night of personal narratives, prints and handmade papers around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream with DREAMer Lupita Romero; cultural gatekeepers Maria Dominguez, Juana Tapia, and Carmela Herrera; cultural anchor and co-owner of La Morada, Carolina Saavedra; and artist mentors Frontline Arts and Mobile Print Power.
Location: La Morada,
308 Willis Ave, Bronx, NY 10454
The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invites you to attend the artist talk and closing reception for Moses Ros: Landing / Aterrizaje.
Carnegie Hall comes to The Bronx! The Bronx Museum presents in partnership with Carnegie Hall, First Fridays! Carnegie Hall Citywide: Ayoinmotion.
Join us for a night of spoken poetry, hip-hop, and dance!
Click here to RSVP through Eventbrite
End summer at the Bronx Museum of the Arts at Bronx Speaks: An Ode to Hip Hop and Bronx culture, a day party presented by Bronx Narratives and Funknvibe.
The day party will feature live performances, guest djs, games, music, merchandise, food, and more. With sounds by FunknVibe, a Long Island based collective expressing their culture through art and music, DJs including gem., BSTN, JOMERO, and SCAR. Citoblanko will perform spoken word, a drum set performance by Anthony Anderson “Drums,” vocals by Iniko, and more!
Click here to RSVP through Eventbrite.
Join us for a night of toys and tales around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream with DREAMers Bintou Darboe and Francisca Carmona Pereda; cultural anchor and owner of Kings Gift Shop Zheng Gang Shu and store manager Marcia Lopez; and artist mentor Michael Paul Britto.
JOIN US! ¡ACOMPÁÑENOS!
Get ready to Boogie! On Sunday August 26th the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 162nd Street to 170th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
¡Prepárate para Boogie! El domingo 26 de agosto, los carriles centrales de Grand Concourse desde la calle 162 hasta la calle 170 estarán cerrados a los automóviles y se abrirán a un mundo de diversión con programas de música, arte y ejercicio físico organizados por organizaciones del Bronx y más allá.
Free admission. Please RSVP through Eventbrite.
Join us for a night of flora and foreign affairs around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream with DREAMers Harriet Appiah, Azeez, and Diana Eusebio; cultural anchor and owner of Lucy's Flower Shop, Lucila Saavedra; and artist mentor Jason Lalor.
Location: Lucy's Flower Shop
2655 Jerome Avenue, Bronx, NY 10468
Help make this year's Boogie on the Boulevard the best one yet by becoming a volunteer. To find out more join us for at our volunteer info session.
Click here to fill out the volunteer application form before you attend.
Don’t miss the premier of The Grade Pending Comedy Show, a night of stand up comedy with talented comedians that have been showcased on TV, film, radio, podcasts, and comedy clubs across the country. This month will feature performers born in The “Boogie Down” Bronx! with Producer and Host, Aldo Malaspina.
7:00pm Doors Open
8:00pm Show begins
Join us for an afternoon of images and storytelling around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream with DREAMers Lupita Romero, Janet Perez and Vanna Valdez; cultural anchor and owner of Botanica San Elias, Juan Carlos Bisono; and artist mentors Angel Franco and Caridad De La Luz “La Bruja.”
Please RSVP through Eventbrite.
Location: Botanica San Elias
1326 Jerome Avenue, Bronx, NY 10452
Learn how to create horror and suspense in comics and manga during this dark and terrifying workshop, featuring a heart-stopping special guest star. Adults only, please!
Comic Culture Prime is an adults-only series of comics & manga programs led by veteran cartoonist Ivan Velez. Presented with the Bronx Council of the Arts’ 2018 Art Fund Grant and hosted by the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
This event has been CANCELLED.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, INTERFERENCE, inspired by Diana Al-Hadid: Delirious Matter. To be selected to participate, arrive by 7pm and enter your name in The Moth “hat.”
$10 Tickets will be available for purchase two weeks prior to the event date on www.themoth.org.
The Museum has a select number of free tickets for Bronx residents. RSVP at info@bronxmuseum.org.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of Manuel Mendive: Nature, Spirit, and Body, curated by Christine Licata.
5:00PM: Bronx Museum Members tour led by Christine Licata.
RSVP for tour to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718.681.6000 ext. 174 or through Eventbrite.
Explore 20th – 21st century erotica in comics during this workshop, featuring live model and show-and-tell with giants of the industry. Adults only, please!
Comic Culture Prime is an adults-only series of comics & manga programs led by veteran cartoonist Ivan Velez. Presented with the Bronx Council of the Arts’ 2018 Art Fund Grant and hosted by the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Deborah Cullen cordially invite you to attend the opening of Diana Al-Hadid: Delirious Matter, organized in collaboration with San José Museum of Art curator Lauren Schell Dickens.
7:00PM: Bronx Museum Members tour of Diana Al-Hadid: Delirious Matter led by Lauren Schell Dickens.
RSVP for tour to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718.681.6000 ext. 174.
Explore the true history, current state, and the hopeful future of people of color in comics during this workshop, featuring the Milestonians, stars of the industry who began at the famous Milestone Comics.
Comic Culture Prime is an adults-only series of comics & manga programs led by veteran cartoonist Ivan Velez. Presented with the Bronx Council of the Arts’ 2018 Art Fund Grant and hosted by the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Please RSVP through Eventbrite.
Join us for a night of spoken word, storytelling and savory treats around the importance of immigration and the struggle for equity and rights within the American Dream with former DREAMer, Bronx spoken word artist Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe and Bronx cultural anchor and founders of La Masa, Josh Montalvo and Laura Valdez.
Location: La Masa Restaurant
1000 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10462
Help make this year's Boogie on the Boulevard the best one yet by becoming a volunteer. To find out more join us for at our volunteer info session.
Please fill out this volunteer application form before you arrive. http://bit.ly/2yrgj3n
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi,
and Deputy Director Klaudio Rodriguez cordially invite you to attend the opening reception of Iran: Women Only.
Click here to RSVP through Eventbrite.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Deputy Director Klaudio Rodriguez cordially invite you to attend a special event on Saturday, June 16, 2018 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm to celebrate Dialogues: Tim Rollins & K.O.S. and Glenn Ligon.
This event will feature alumni from International School 218 who collaborated with K.O.S. to create the Darkwater series included in Dialogues.
Join us for exhibition related workshops and performances throughout the afternoon.
Click here to RSVP through Eventbrite.
Families are encouraged to attend.
In celebration of Pride Month and to kick off The Bronx Pride Week, First Friday! is now a FIERCE Friday!
Join us in a collaboration with FIERCE NYC, the KiKi Coalition, artist Ivan Velez and dancers from the LGBTQ Ballroom Houses in The Bronx for a night of conversation, performances and a Vogue-ing inspired, late night Mr. Papo’s Drink-n-Draw.
7:00pm – 8:00pm Moderated panel on social justice issues and LGBTQ Ballroom House culture featuring GrandFather Hector Xtravaganza, Luna Khan, Slim Ninja, Gia Love and Mr. Papo’s FUTURISMA Drink N Draw.
8:00pm – 11:00pm Mr. Papo’s Drink-n-Draw.
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse. Meet up at 11:00am in The Bronx Museum Lobby.
Join Project X as they make history by creating the first ever Bronx-based Slam Poetry Team headed to the National Poetry Slam in Chicago, August 2018! The night will feature 10 slam poets competing for the team, a slam poet feature, music, food, community vendors, and so much more!
$10 tickets at the door.
Join us for Teen Night, brought to you by The Bronx Museum Teen Council. Stop by for art, activities, music, food, and the debut screening of Teen Council’s latest video projects. By teens. For teens.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, BALANCE inspired by Dialogues: Tim Rollins & K.O.S. and Glenn Ligon. To be selected to participate, arrive by 7pm and enter your name in The Moth “hat.”
$10 Tickets will be available for purchase two weeks prior to the event date on www.themoth.org.
The Museum has a select number of free tickets for Bronx residents. RSVP at info@bronxmuseum.org.
Come join us for our annual Senior Thursday event celebrating Older Americans Month with BRIO award winning artist Michele Brody. The Bronx CommuniTea will include an herbal tea pairing workshop withherbalist Ursula Basch and Jo Ani Johnson of A Gift of Tea to pair with a healthy dish by Chef Kareem, an exhibtion tour and a culminating performance to celebrate the hopeful recovery for Puerto Rico with the Bronx’s own Dr. Drum and BombaYo.
Tea of the day: Iced Eve’s Temptation (Apple, Hibiscus, Mango, Rose Hips)
A MOTHER’S RITE is a ballet set to Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring composition, and will explore one mother’s journey through stages of grief after being thrust into the spotlight by way of her son’s racially-motivated murder.
2:00pm Welcome and film screenings of A Mother’s Rite and Mothers of the Revolution
2:30pm Letters of Love writing workshop
3:00pm – 4:30pm Preview performance of A Mother’s Rite danced by Courtney Celeste Spears and Q&A with The Black Iris Project’s Artistic Director and Choreographer Jeremy McQueen.
4:30pm – 6:00pm Tea on the Terrace reception with guest chefs Henry Obispo, Director of Bornjuice and Clifford Hunt II, Proprietor of Culinary Cliff, LLC.
Examining the theme of SUSTAINABILITY in the arts and social engagement practices, the Open Engagement team—Jen Delos Reyes, Crystal Baxley, and Latham Zearfoss—will be in conversation with Laura Raicovich and Paul Ramirez Jonas to examine the conference’s history and model, and reflect on its future. Afterwards, party together with us Bronx-style!
7:30pm – 9:30pm OE Keynote. Paid ticket event.
Please visit openengagement.info to purchase.
9:30pm – 12:00am OE and BxMA AFTER-PARTY! Free.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts Teen Council cordially invites you to attend the opening reception of the exhibition The Mind’s Abstraction, an exhibition of teen artwork organized by the Bronx Museum Teen Council.
In honor of the Jewish tradition of Sabbath our First Friday! is now a First Sunday! this May and is for ladies only. Join us for tours, family arts and crafts and a special performance by The New Moon All Star Party Band. The group consists entirely of Hasidic Orthodox Jewish women who, in accordance with the Orthodox principle of kol isha, perform for female audiences only with a blend of New Orleans jazz, Brazilian bossa nova, French cabaret, American funk, and even traditional Hasidic nigunim.
As part of Jane’s Walk Weekend—a series of free guided tours held each year in memory of urban activist Jane Jacobs—Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse. Meet up at 11:00am in The Bronx Museum Lobby
Join us for an afternoon with Oded Halahmy for a signing of his “Exile is Home” exhibition catalog along with guest curator Margaret Mathews-Berenson.
Curator-led tour at 2:00pm
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi,
and Deputy Director Klaudio Rodriguez cordially invite you to attend the opening of Oded Halahmy - Exile is Home and Moses Ros: Landing / Aterrizaje.
Featuring a special performance by Israel-based singer Victoria Hanna.
Click here to RSVP through Eventbrite.
Find all the colors of spring at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Hop into the colorful, poetic world of Angel Otero’s abstract paintings during an afternoon of family art-making activities. Featuring workshops with PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: Resist & Reimagine and The Bronx Council on the Arts. Explore new ideas with fellow writers and artists, and work with renowned poet and children’s book author Tony Medina!
Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent/ guardian, but all ages are welcome!
Pre-register: tinyurl.com/FAApr2018
The Bronx Museum cordially invites guests 55 and older to the Spring Senior Luncheon. Join us for a delightful afternoon with free tours of the Museum’s exhibitions, live entertainment, and lunch with friends.
Tickets are SOLD OUT.
Commissioned by the Museum as part of the BxMA Co-Lab dance series, Davalois Fearon Dance will perform As Above, As Below a new, site-specific choreography created in dialogue with Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1971 performance Tree Dance, as well as the inclusion of alchemic philosophy in both artists’ practice.
Costumes, wearable sculptures and make up by Jasmine Murrell. Music by Mike McGinnis. Tree and leaves design by Myssi Robinson. Choreography by Davalois Fearon in collaboration with dancers. As Above As Below Video by Nigel HoSangRain.
4:00pm Gallery tour and performance in lobby
5:00pm Outdoor procession to Andrew Freedman Home* and performance
6:00pm Panel and reception with Davalois Fearon at the Museum’s XM Cafe with music, food and dancing!
*Rain location the Bronx Museum galleries
Kicking off the 19th Annual Havana Film Festival New York, the Museum will host a screening of De Puerto Rico Para el Mundo (From Puerto Rico to the World), an ode to the Puerto Rican diaspora by Carlitos Ruiz and Mariem Pérez. The documentary features interviews with Rita Moreno, Rosie Perez and Luis Guzmán.
6:00pm - 7:00pm Kids activity table and gallery tours
7:00pm Screening of De Puerto Rico Para el Mundo
8:30pm Live music by Flaco Navaja & the Razor Blades
American artist Julia Heyward, contemporary of Gordon Matta-Clark, will perform and screen select works from her interdisciplinary practice. This event is organized by Elisa R. Linn and Lennart Wolff.
Since the early 1970s, Heyward has explored language through live performance, photography, film and video and interactive digital works. Heyward employs a variety of vocal techniques, musical styles, and visual spectacles in her work. Her films and performances draw on personal biographical narratives, childhood trauma and themes of faith and spirituality as well as larger societal issues, among them class and gender inequality and environmental rights.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, TESTED inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark. To be selected to participate, arrive by 7pm and enter your name in The Moth “hat.”
$10 Tickets will be available for purchase two weeks prior to the event date on www.themoth.org
Sold out.
Join us for an all-day traditional pig roast to commemorate the closing of Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect, featuring chef Angel Jimenez, founder of Lechonera La Piraña.
SOLD OUT.
Renowned female rhythm and blues group, The Chantels rocked the world and the music industry during the late 1950s with chart topping hits including “Maybe.” Renée Minus White, one of the original members, will read from her autobiography Maybe: My Memoir (One Chantel’s Story). The Back in the Bronx series celebrates the long legacy of talent that has emerged out of the Bronx.
Join us for a conversation with Gordon Matta-Clark’s sister Federica Matta and guest curator Jessamyn Fiore for a discussion and Q&A around the integration of art and family.
Bloggers play a critical role in building The Bronx. They share stories that shape existing narratives and are the drivers of positive change. Meet, mingle and party with them at the first ever blogger social in the Bronx. Your favorite content producers will be there: @BloggerfromtheBronx, @bxtra_tatyanaturner, @Siria.Alvarez, @Bronxmama_com, @litbar, @dandyinthebronx, @bornjuice, @thebronxer, @latoyajwilcox, @arieventgroup, @supahbas, @sunkissorganics, @jessicajade.co, @mosaicmagazine, @shecommands, @consultwithtea, @taishaaslaysss, @bxtra_tatyanaturner, @Mahoganymocha, @Asatousohna, @thegreatuddin, @salmajahmed, and many more...
$3 specialty blogger punch by BORNjuice.
Join in a celebration of the life and work of artist Guadalupe Valero O’Farrill with Lupe’s Lounge (I love you 4).* A select series of her paintings will be on view and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra will perform along with special guests as well as friends and family will share memories and thoughts about her inspirational life.
The Dedalus Foundation & The Bronx Museum of the Arts invite you to Working Through Influence: A Conversation with Artist Angel Otero
The Dedalus Foundation
25 East 21st Street, Floor 4
RSVP Required
Please email rsvp@dedalusfoundation.org to confirm your attendance.
Inspired by rule-breaking, nonconformist artists Gordon Matta-Clark and Angel Otero, Bronx Native will host a night of emerging, social justice-driven Punk bands featuring Bronx-based musicians Statik Vision and more!
Channel your inner (an)architect at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Join us for an afternoon of family art activities inspired by the dynamic works of Gordon Matta-Clark. Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent or guardian.
Pre-register here
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museum Staff, and the Community Advisory Council invite you to join us for the Holly Block Open House: A Community Memorial Celebration of her Life and Legacy.
The day will feature tributes by community leaders, gallery tours, and performances by local artists
Dress (optional): Please wear orange and gray in honor of Holly's role as Executive Director of The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Carnegie Hall comes to The Bronx! Join us for a special evening of performances by Banda Magda. Led by Greek-born composer, orchestrator, singer and accordionist Magda Giannikou, Banda Magda moves from Samba to French chanson, from Greek folk tunes to Colombian cumbia and Afro-Peruvian lando.
6:00pm - 7:00pm Kids activity table and gallery tours
7:30pm Performance begins
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, WINTER. To be selected to participate, arrive by 7pm and enter your name in The Moth “hat.”
$10 Tickets will be available for purchase two weeks prior to the event date on The Moth’s website: www.themoth.org
The Bronx Museum has a select number of free tickets available for Bronx residents. RSVP at info@bronxmuseum.org.
Show your solidarity and support with a benefit reading by #PoetsForPuertoRico to raise funds and continued awareness of the ongoing political and environmental devastation in Puerto Rico. This event will be co-hosted by Willie Perdomo and Noel Quiñones, two native Nuyoricans and will feature over 30 poets from Puerto Rico, the diaspora, and beyond.
5:30PM Doors Open
6:00PM Performances Begin
8:00PM-9:00PM Reception with a performance from Boom Bits
$20 Donation. Please RSVP through Eventbrite.
#POETSFORPUERTORICO will send all proceeds to Para la Naturaleza
For more info on donations visit www.paralanaturaleza.org or email PoetsForPuertoRico@gmail.com
In homage to Gordon Matta-Clark’s community project FOOD, the XM Café will feature local chefs as well as artists who incorporate food as part of their social practice. This month, Jhal NYC will share Bangladeshi street food as well as conversations on immigration and community building. Joining the evening will be musicians Ifti & The Royal Bengal Tea House.
Celebrate the New Year with an evening filled with revelry and the rhythms of
Son Pecadores, a collective of musicians with a passion for promoting the traditional sounds and poetry of Veracruz.
6:00pm - 7:00pm Kids activity table and gallery tours
7:30pm Performance begins
How do you attend to your needs? What challenges you to be more tender with yourself? When does your capacity for gentle self care grow?
Black Spaces offers a moving meditation within a material landscape that foregrounds your comfort and allows you to dig a little deeper into these questions. Move at your own will, with your own pacing, and within the realm of our collective imagination
Workshop begins at 5:30pm
Performances at 7:00pm
Please join us for an evening of true, personal stories from graduates of The Moth Community Program, which partners with organizations in the New York City area to teach the art and craft of storytelling.
We have a select number of free tickets for Bronx residents available. RSVP at info@bronxmuseum.org.
Inspired by Gordon Matta Clark’s community project FOOD, the XM Café will feature local chefs. For the Coquito Marqueta, samples of innovative coquito recipes will be created. The winners and finalists of the Coquito Masters will have their coquito for sale.
Determine the 2017 NYS Coquito Master! Taste award-winning coquitos from district winners across New York State.
For more information contact Debbie Quinones coquitomasters@gmail.com.
Handmade products from select Bronx artists, performances, lectures, how-to demos and more!
Join us at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided tour of the galleries.
The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme, DIRT, inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark. To be selected to participate, arrive at 7pm and enter your name in The Moth “hat”.
$10 Tickets will be available for purchase two weeks prior to the date.
We have a select number of free tickets for Bronx residents available. RSVP at info@bronxmuseum.org.
Through panels, workshops, and a screening of the 13th, this conference provides a space to explore “unforgivable blackness,” and the way recent social movements such as Black Lives Matter can be used to connect and strengthen communities.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Joseph Mizzi,
and Deputy Director Klaudio Rodriguez cordially invite you to attend the opening of our Fall Season Open House.
1:00PM: Bronx Museum Members tour of Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect
4:00PM: Performance by Momo Ishiguro
RSVP for tour to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718.681.6000 ext. 174
From the streets of the South Bronx to the center ring of the Greatest Show on Earth, the world-renown stars of The King Charles Troupe will perform and share personal anecdotes about their rise to international success from their South Bronx beginnings.This event will be moderated by Reverend Bill Minson.
The Back in the Bronx series celebrates the long legacy of talent that has emerged out of the Bronx.
A Performa 17 Commission Presented in Collaboration with The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Zanele Muholi, a Cape Town-based artist and visual activist, explores the struggles of the LGBTQI community through music, performance and discussions
Join musicians Mimi Jones and ArcoIris Sandoval, creators of The D.O.M.E. Experience for a jazz chamber orchestra production, including live spoken word, dance and cinematography.
Inspired by current political, social and environmental topics, this D.O.M.E. Experience benefit relief event is being produced to aid and support those recently affected by natural disasters.
Following the performance there will be a Q&A and reception with co-Founders Mimi Jones and ArcoIris Sandoval
All proceeds will be sent to the Caribbean and Mexico.
Carnegie Hall comes to the Bronx! Join us for a special evening of performances by Plena Libre.
Performance begins promptly at 7:30pm.
Kids activity table and gallery tours start at 6:00pm.
Plena Libre performances are thrilling showcases, with hand drummers pounding out mesmerizing beats, raucous horns raising the roof, and swirling and soaring three-part vocal harmonies. Masters of the traditional Puerto Rican plena and bomba styles, Plena Libre fuses these traditions with modern Afro-Caribbean influences to put a new and always electrifying spin on this scintillating music.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided tour of our current exhibitions.
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. At 7:30pm ten names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story around a theme. In this case, the concept of a “roof”, inspired by Bronx Museum’s exhibiting artist Heidi Lau.
$10 Admission - Tickets are SOLD OUT.
There are a select number of free tickets available for Bronx Residents.
To RSVP email info@bronxmuseum.org.
Join us for the opening reception for Angel Otero: Elegies, organized by Christian Viveros-Faune.
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough’s major thoroughfare that’s also home to the Bronx Museum. Goodman visits key sites, provides a brief history of the Grand Concourse, and discusses the health issues impacting its communities.
Location: Meet at the Museum Lobby
Can photography change how we see our surroundings? What comprises a beautiful photograph? How can photography and history interrelate?
Join RIPA's selected 2017 FLOW artist Rose DeSiano to address these questions, and take some photographs of your own! We'll meet on Randall's Island Connector at 2:00pm to learn about this year's FLOW art pieces, discuss some of Randall's Island's history, and talk about photographic composition and story-telling. Bring your camera or camera phone (RIPA will also offer a few Polaroid cameras to borrow for the event) and spend the afternoon capturing Island images that you can take home with you. We hope you'll return throughout the year to continue your photographic journey on Randall's Island.
Free admission. All ages welcome!
The FLOW art series is planned in conjunction with the Randall's Island Park Alliance, the Bronx Museum and the New York Department of Parks and Recreation.
Explore four private Upper West Side collections in support of The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Join us at the Museum's Fall Benefit for a unique opportunity to tour private art collections at four stunning homes. A light breakfast will kick off the day, followed by a walking tour to the collections of some of the Upper West Sides most renowned art collectors. The tour will be followed by lunch.
Tour and Lunch:
Members: $200
Non-Members: $250
The non-tax deductible portion of each ticket is $50
For more information contact Allison Grandy at agrandy@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000 x 174.
Learn more about our current exhibition Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial. Join us for a free, guided tour and evening of screenings and Q & A with exhibiting AIM artists.
BxMA Co-Lab dance resident Zavé Martohardjono and visual artist Shani Peters will continue their open studio series showcasing their collaborative work.
6:00pm – 8:00pm Free tours of the galleries
6:00pm – 8:00pm Children’s activity table
8:00pm Performance begins
Location: South Wing
BxMA Co-Lab and First Fridays! Dance are generously supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided tour of selections from our current exhibitions.
Location: Lobby Galleries
open | close | open is designed as an interactive piece, a game, a meditation for two. The artist, Milcah Bassel, invites you to come play on October 1 (2-6pm). Bassel’s 79 small square ceramic vessels constitute game pieces in a moveable grid, representing organs in the human body. The title is lifted from a poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, that reflects on states of being open/closed/open during pre-birth/life/death.
Please be advised that open | close | open is only available to be touched when artist is present.
In celebration of his exhibition Bronx Haiku artist Ivan Velez brings his unique brand of funky art happening to the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Ivan Velez Drink N Draw: Mr. Papo's Living Haiku brings live models, amazing artists, great beats (by DJ K. Wah!), and off the hook fun. Cash bar with drink specials, free art supplies, videos, prizes, and art on sale.
Free admission
Want to pose and be immortalized distinguished and fabulous artists? Email tomrpapoart@gmail.com or just show up ready to go.
Co-Lab is an interdisciplinary residency program intended to deepen local exposure to dance, celebrate the borough’s rich legacy with choreography, and foster connections to up-and-coming talent. For their open studio series, BxMA Co-Lab dance resident Zavé Martohardjono and visual artist Shani Peters will showcase their collaborative project. The project explores lived political resistance in the body through dance, as well as considers shared cultural spaces as sites for release, joy, affirmation, self-care, and self-reflection.
Can photography change how we see our surroundings? What comprises a beautiful photograph? How can photography and history interrelate?
Join RIPA's selected 2017 FLOW artist Rose DeSiano to address these questions, and take some photographs of your own! We'll meet on 103rd Street Footbridge at 2:00pm to learn about this year's FLOW art pieces, discuss some of Randall's Island's history, and talk about photographic composition and story-telling. Bring your camera or camera phone (RIPA will also offer a few Polaroid cameras to borrow for the event) and spend the afternoon capturing Island images that you can take home with you. We hope you'll return throughout the year to continue your photographic journey on Randall's Island.
Free admission. All ages welcome!
The FLOW art series is planned in conjunction with the Randall's Island Park Alliance, the Bronx Museum and the New York Department of Parks and Recreation.
open | close | open is designed as an interactive piece, a game, a meditation for two. The artist, Milcah Bassel, invites you to come play on August 4 (6:30 - 8:30 pm), September 15 (6-8pm), and October 1 (2-6pm). Bassel’s 79 small square ceramic vessels constitute game pieces in a moveable grid, representing organs in the human body. The title is lifted from a poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, that reflects on states of being open/closed/open during pre-birth/life/death.
Please be advised that open | close | open is only available to be touched when artist is present.
Get ready to Boogie! On Sunday, September 10 the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 162nd Street to 170th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
Free admission
¡Prepárate para el Boogie! Los domingos 10 de septiembre los carriles centrales del Grand Concourse, desde la calle 162 hasta la calle 170, estarán cerrados a la circulación vehicular y abiertos a un mundo de diversión a programas de música, arte y ejercicio gratuitos auspiciados por organizaciones dentro y fuera del Bronx.
Gratis
BX200’s Free Professional Development for Artists series continues with Using Social Media to Market Your Artwork with Ron Kavanaugh. This workshop will focus on maximizing social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and e-newsletters. The workshop will conclude with a networking party.
Email BX200PD@gmail.com for application details through September 4th. This workshop is made possible withpublic funds from the Bronx Council on the Arts through the Department of Cultural Affairs’ Greater New York Arts Development Fund Program.
Learn more about our current exhibition Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial. Join us for a free, guided tour and Q & A with exhibiting AIM artists and curators.
Location: Lobby Galleries
Dance to special performances by DJ Eli Efi and Davi Vieira featuring Cissa Paz. Then wind down the evening with an outdoor screening of Martha & Niki, a documentary about two young Swedish women of African descent who became the first female champions of the Juste Debout in Paris, the largest Hip Hop street dance competition in the world.
Produced in collaboration with the New York African Film Festival and Asho Productions.
6:00pm Music by DJ Eli Efi
7:00pm Performance by Davi Vieira featuring Cissa Paz.
8:00pm Screening of Martha & Niki
Location: Joyce Kilmer Park
Enjoy the last days of summer with an afternoon of family art-making activities in the outdoors. Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent/guardian.
Location: Willis Avenue Community Garden, 401 E 143rd St.
Pre-register tinyurl.com/FAAug2017
Join us for some music in the sun with Lady Moon & the Eclipse.
Location: Willis Ave Community Garden, 401 E 143rd St.
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat.” At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening "ORIGINS," inspired by the Bronx Museum's current exhibition Ivan Velez: Bronx Haiku. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen.
Prepare a five-minute story about beginnings. Lightbulbs illuminating, shells cracking, cocoons giving way to metamorphosis. Transitions and transformations. Bring us your tales of catalysts big and small, from puberty to graduations or first crushes to experiments. The impetus, the springboard, your back story. Like every hero, we know you started somewhere.
This event is SOLD OUT.
Join us for an open mic night with poet Bobby González. Participants from the Spoken Word 101 workshop series invite you to hear their work and share your own.
Get ready to Boogie! On Sundays August 20, September 10 the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 162nd Street to 170th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
Free admission
¡Prepárate para el Boogie! Los domingos 25 de junio, 23 de julio, 20 de agosto y 10 de septiembre los carriles centrales del Grand Concourse, desde la calle 162 hasta la calle 170, estarán cerrados a la circulación vehicular y abiertos a un mundo de diversión a programas de música, arte y ejercicio gratuitos auspiciados por organizaciones dentro y fuera del Bronx.
Gratis
Join us for a Jazz Night happy hour with Bronx Native.
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough’s major thoroughfare that’s also the home of the Bronx Museum.
Location: Meet at 11:00am in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
Free admission; No RSVP required
Join us for an evening of performances throughout the museum by select AIM Artists. Music by DJ Asho. This event is held in conjunction with Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial.
Free admission and cash bar.
Kids Table begins at 6:00pm
Museum exhibition tours begin at 6:30pm.
Join us at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided tour and Q & A with exhibiting artist Ivan Velez in conversation with illustrator Sabrina Cintron.
Location: North Wing Lobby
Get ready to Boogie! On Sundays July 23, August 20, September 10 the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 162nd Street to 170th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
Free admission
¡Prepárate para el Boogie! Los domingos 25 de junio, 23 de julio, 20 de agosto y 10 de septiembre los carriles centrales del Grand Concourse, desde la calle 162 hasta la calle 170, estarán cerrados a la circulación vehicular y abiertos a un mundo de diversión a programas de música, arte y ejercicio gratuitos auspiciados por organizaciones dentro y fuera del Bronx.
Gratis
Explore the art of Manuel Mendive during an afternoon of family art-making activities in the outdoors. Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent/guardian.
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden
1025 Anderson Avenue, Highbridge
Pre-register tinyurl.com/FAJul2017
Join us for some music in the sun with Legacy Women.
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden,
1025 Anderson Ave., Highbridge
Discover fresh work by New York’s most promising emerging artists at the exclusive viewing and benefit sale of Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial. With over 70 works showcasing everything from painting to film, photography, and installation, there is something for everyone to acquire! Members receive a 10% discount on works in the First Look and Sale.
RSVP to Allison Grandy at 718-681-6000 x 174 or agrandy@bronxmuseum.org
Can photography change how we see our surroundings? What comprises a beautiful photograph? How can photography and history interrelate?
Join RIPA's selected 2017 FLOW artist Rose DeSiano to address these questions, and take some photographs of your own! We'll meet on Randall's Island Connector at 2pm to learn about this year's FLOW art pieces, discuss some of Randall's Island's history, and talk about photographic composition and story-telling. Bring your camera or camera phone (RIPA will also offer a few Polaroid cameras to borrow for the event) and spend the afternoon capturing Island images that you can take home with you. We hope you'll return throughout the year to continue your photographic journey on Randall's Island.
Free admission. All ages welcome!
The FLOW art series is planned in conjunction with the Randall's Island Park Alliance, the Bronx Museum and the New York Department of Parks and Recreation.
As part of the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Gracie Mansion and the accompanying exhibition New York 1942, Sam Goodman, Bronx native and urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the historic Grand Concourse.
Location: Meet at 11:00am in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
**Due to inclement weather the Afro-Cuban Night has been moved to the Bronx Museum Lower Gallery!
Join us for an evening of music and cinema in homage to the Afro-Cuban artist Manuel Mendive with DJ Asho, The Cimarron Project featuring Roman Díaz and a screening of When the Spirits Dance Mambo.
Produced in collaboration with the New York African Film Festival and Asho Productions. Film courtesy of The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI).
6:00 pm DJ ASHO spins on the 1's and 2's
7:00 pm Performance by The Cimarron Project, featuring Roman Diaz
8:00 pm Screening of When the Spirits Dance Mambo by Marta Moreno Vega and Bobby Shepard
Location: Bronx Museum Lower Gallery
Free admission and cash bar
Celebrate your LGBTQ Pride with the Bronx Museum of the Arts on Friday, June 30 from 6-8 pm. Join Mistress of Ceremonies and House of LaBeija Showgirl extraordinaire Javon Egyptt for an evening of live spectacular performances by Jasmin van Wales, Patti Cake, House of Ninja dancers Slim Ninja and Mayu Oguri Ninja along with music by Mando/3VXM. Free admission and XM Café cash bar.
This event was made possible thanks to generous support of the HUB Third Avenue Business Improvement District, (BID).
Get ready to Boogie! On Sundays June 25, July 23, August 20, September 10 the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 162nd Street to 170th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
Free admission
¡Prepárate para el Boogie! Los domingos 25 de junio, 23 de julio, 20 de agosto y 10 de septiembre los carriles centrales del Grand Concourse, desde la calle 162 hasta la calle 170, estarán cerrados a la circulación vehicular y abiertos a un mundo de diversión a programas de música, arte y ejercicio gratuitos auspiciados por organizaciones dentro y fuera del Bronx.
Gratis
Before you check out the Museum’s current Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje exhibition highlighting contemporary Cuban, let the Hush Tours team show you a slice of Cuban History, Bronx style. Our guide will take you through the Bronx and give incredible insight to the Cuban-American experience and its cultural impact, combining anecdotal gems with urban exploration the Hush Tours way.
Celebrate the start of summer with an afternoon of family art-making activities in the outdoors. Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent/guardian.
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue
Pre-register here
Join us for some music in the sun with Andre Veloz Bachata.
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden,
1025 Anderson Ave., Highbridge
Can photography change how we see our surroundings? What comprises a beautiful photograph? How can photography and history interrelate?
Join RIPA's selected 2017 FLOW artist Rose DeSiano to address these questions, and take some photographs of your own! We'll meet on 103rd Street Footbridge at 2:00pm to learn about this year's FLOW art pieces, discuss some of Randall's Island's history, and talk about photographic composition and story-telling. Bring your camera or camera phone (RIPA will also offer a few Polaroid cameras to borrow for the event) and spend the afternoon capturing Island images that you can take home with you. We hope you'll return throughout the year to continue your photographic journey on Randall's Island.
Free admission. All ages welcome!
The FLOW art series is planned in conjunction with the Randall's Island Park Alliance, the Bronx Museum and the New York Department of Parks and Recreation.
As part of the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Gracie Mansion and accompanying the exhibition New York 1942, Bronx native and urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President Sam Goodman will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse. Goodman will provide a history of the Grand Concourse, highlighting the impact of the 1940’s, and explain the development of its diverse communities.
Meet at 11:00am in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
Join Ivan Velez for a special Bronx Haiku Drink N Draw featuring great artists, beautiful model monsters to draw, live music, and videos. Meet new people or share with old friends an evening of joyous interaction and art-making.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided discussion with artist Daniel Hauben of his artwork Reflecting on the Familiar, which is currently on view in the Museum lobby.
Location: North Wing Lobby
Free admission and cash bar
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen. The theme of the evening is BELONGING.
We have set aside a handful of complimentary tickets for Bronx residents. To RSVP email info@bronxmuseum.org.
$10 General admission tickets are available two weeks before the event.
The Bronx Museum is excited to bring back the CommuniTea Senior Thursdays during Older Americans Month. Join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea.
During the four CommuniTea Senior Thursdays in May 2017, Bronx-based artist Michele Brody will collaborate with Tea Consultant Jo-Ani Johnson and Chef Kareem Gonsalves to develop a unique pairing of organic SerendipiTea teas with exciting healthy dishes inspired by the extraordinary cultural mix of Bronx communities. The series is uniquely both cumulative and can exist as individual programs, should visitors only join for one event. All events will include a free tour of Museum exhibitions.
Free admission. All ages welcome.
Senior Programs are generously supported by The Malka Fund and City Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson. CommuniTea, is made possible, in part by The Bronx Council of the Arts and SerendipiTea. Community and Public Programs are made possible by Booth Ferris Foundation, Con Edison, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund with generous support of New York City Council Speaker Melissa-Mark Viverito and Council Member Annabel Palma.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts Trustee and Young Patrons Chair Eric Blair-Joannou invites you to join Young Patrons members and friends for a private collection tour at the apartment of collector Gregory Peterson.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is pleased to host the live fashion runway show Arte y Moda, organized by the Bronx Museum and the Cuban Association of Artisans and Artists (ACAA). For Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje, Arte y Moda presents six designers: Rafael Humberto Méndez González, Juan Carlos Marrero Urquiola, Mario Alberto Freixas Morales, Oscar Alberto de la Portilla Escandón, Ignacio Carmona Piñero and Vilmeidy Bombale Laborde who create experimental fashion using recycled and unconventional materials inspired by artwork in the exhibition. Celebrate with us the esteemed Cuban designers of Arte y Moda for a night of original fashion.
The live fashion show features Movement of the People Dance Company. Participating Arte y Moda Dancer-Models include: Joya Powell, Zoje Ehizoje Azeke, Malcom Betts, Tyrone Beavans, Isaiah Boyd, Solana Hoffman Carter, Angel Chin, Melanie Greene, Brittany Grier, Megan Minturn, Rachel Moore, Larry Rosalez, Belinda A. Saenz
The Bronx Museum is excited to bring back the CommuniTea Senior Thursdays during Older Americans Month. Join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea.
During the four CommuniTea Senior Thursdays in 2017, Bronx-based artist Michele Brody will collaborate with Tea Consultant Jo-Ani Johnson and Chef Kareem Gonsalves to develop a unique pairing of organic SerendipiTea teas with exciting healthy dishes inspired by the extraordinary cultural mix of Bronx communities. The series is uniquely both cumulative and can exist as individual programs, should visitors only join for one event. All events will include a free tour of Museum exhibitions.
Free admission. All ages are welcome.
Senior Programs are generously supported by The Malka Fund and City Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson. CommuniTea, is made possible, in part by The Bronx Council of the Arts and SerendipiTea. Community and Public Programs are made possible by Booth Ferris Foundation, Con Edison, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund with generous support of New York City Council Speaker Melissa-Mark Viverito and Council Member Annabel Palma.
Calling all environmentally focused artists, designers, scientists and solution seekers! Join EcoArt Project during a special Wednesday XM Café Happy Hour for NYCxDesign (May 3 – 24). Founder, Pino Fortunato, will present an evening of innovative art, design, resources, networking and inspiration around the creation of a green economy. Participate in an international exchange in new eco-sustainable ideas while learning about the recent Design Havana competition and how to get involved with EcoArt Project.
Let the Hush Tours guide take you through the Bronx to reveal insight into the Cuban-American experience and its cultural impact, combining anecdotal gems with urban exploration the Hush Tours way.
Before you check out the Museum’s current Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje exhibition highlighting the advance of contemporary Cuban art from the 1970’s to present day, let the Hush Tours team show you a slice of Cuban History, Bronx style. Our guide will take you through the Bronx and give incredible insight to the Cuban-American experience and its cultural impact, combining anecdotal gems with urban exploration the Hush Tours way.
Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje is open at the Bronx Museum from February 17 to July 3rd. The Hush experiences are completely FREE and will be offered on a monthly basis in May, June, and July.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is thrilled to celebrate Art Museum Day. Art Museum Day was established by AAMD to celebrate the value of the visual arts and the important role art museums play in their communities.
Come take a guided tour of our exhibitions Wild Noise / Ruido Salvaje, The Neighbors Part Three: Love Thy Neighbor, and the BxMA Teen Council’s exhibition Time at 2:00PM. Seniors are invited for a special presentation of CommuniTea with Bronx artist Michele Brody. Also receive 10% off at the XM Cafe, discounts from the BMXA Gift Shop and Membership discounts at any level. As part of our Membership, you will receive VIP seating at select events, 10% of at the Museum Store, invitations to exclusive exhibition tours and more! If you join on Art Museum Day, you will also receive a complimentary Bronx Museum tote bag.
Please visit the Bronx Museum to join at the discounted rate or contact the Membership office at membership@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000 x 120.
An XM Cafe Happy Hour for all our Bronx Tea-totalers! Join us in celebrating the launch of Michele Brody’s new book Three Years of Tea in The Bronx: Reflections in Tea and Stories from the CommuniTea with a sampling of fresh brewed tea from SerendipiTea. All beverage drinkers are welcome to share their stories too!
The Bronx Museum is excited to bring back the CommuniTea Senior Thursdays during Older Americans Month. Join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea.
During the four CommuniTea Senior Thursdays in May 2017, Bronx-based artist Michele Brody will collaborate with Tea Consultant Jo-Ani Johnson and Chef Kareem Gonsalves to develop a unique pairing of organic SerendipiTea teas with exciting healthy dishes inspired by the extraordinary cultural mix of Bronx communities. The series is uniquely both cumulative and can exist as individual programs, should visitors only join for one event. All events will include a free tour of Museum exhibitions.
Free admission. All ages are welcome.
Senior Programs are generously supported by The Malka Fund and City Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson. CommuniTea, is made possible, in part by The Bronx Council of the Arts and SerendipiTea. Community and Public Programs are made possible by Booth Ferris Foundation, Con Edison, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund with generous support of New York City Council Speaker Melissa-Mark Viverito and Council Member Annabel Palma.
Throughout Bronx Week, our beloved fellow Bronxites get 10% off at the XM Café’s for the newest menu item, “The Bronx Salad” as well as “The Bronx Greenmarket Hot Sauce,” also available at the BxMA Gift Shop. Both created by Chef King Phojanakong, The Bronx Salad consists of mixed greens, red peppers, red onions, olives, tomatoes, corn, black beans, plantain chips, mango and avocado (and an optional dash of hot sauce). The Bronx Museum of the Arts is proud to support this important collaboration between Chef Phojanakong, SoBRO, the Institute for Family Health and the United Business Cooperative, as an initiative to increase access to healthy foods in the South Bronx.
While at XM Café you can also see the full view of Daniel Hauben’s large-scale, seven-part painting, Reflecting on the Familiar that seeks to capture a multifaceted and complex panorama of our beautiful borough.
Please join the Director’s Circle at the home of Steven Greene and Bronx Museum Vice Chair Marilyn Greene for a reception, collection’s tour, and talk with Bronx Museum Editorial Manager Mario Torres as he discusses the upcoming exhibition Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect
Location: at the home of Steven and Marilyn Greene
Upper East Side
Address will be sent upon RSVP
RSVP to Allison Grandy by Friday, May 5
agrandy@bronxmuseum.org / 718-681-6000 x 174
As part of Jane’s Walk Weekend—a series of free guided tours held each year in memory of urban activist Jane Jacobs—Bronx native and urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President Sam Goodman will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse. While visiting key sites along this major thoroughfare, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and explain the development of its diverse neighborhoods and communities.
Free admission; No RSVP Required
Meet at the Museum lobby at 11:00am.
Join the Randall’s Island Park Alliance and the Bronx Museum of the Arts for the grand opening of FLOW, our annual exhibition of outdoor art! Each year, FLOW features site-specific projects by participants in the Bronx Museum’s Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program for emerging artists. Come meet this year’s featured artist Rose DeSiano and hear more about the inspirations and challenges in creating her unique series of works, Island of Empirical Data and Other Fabrications.
FLOW is open to the public from May to November 2017. Island of Empirical Data and Other Fabrications can be found at two key park sites: the touchdown of the 103rd Street Footbridge from Manhattan and the touchdown of the Randall’s Island Connector from the Bronx.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Location: Randall's Island - Base of 103rd Street Bridge
Free admission.
Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) is the Bronx Museum’s signature program offering professional development opportunities to emerging artists residing in the New York metropolitan area.
Find inspiration, meet fellow writers and artists, and learn new writing techniques at workshops. Hosted by the Bronx Council of the Arts' Bronx Writers Center and international authors as part of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
1:30pm to 3:30pm - Bronx Writers Center Workshop with Nancy Morejón
4:00pm to 6:00pm - Bronx Writers Center Workshop with Morgan Parker
6:00pm to 8:30pm - Evening with Nancy Morejón and Wild Noise
Free admission
Nancy Morejón fearlessly takes on ethnicity, gender, history, politics, Afro-Cuban identity, and the collision of cultures in the “New World” with her poetry. This reading and meet-the-poet talk with one of the first Cuban women to celebrate blackness in poetry will be set against the backdrop of the Bronx Museum’s Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje exhibition, a survey of Cuban artists both on the island and abroad grappling with issues of identity, community, and the urban experience.
Free admission
Co-Lab is an interdisciplinary residency program intended to deepen local exposure to dance, celebrate the borough’s rich legacy with choreography, and foster connections to up-and-coming Bronx talent. The first BxMA Co-Lab dance resident Jasmine Hearn and visual artist Kameelah Rasheed will showcase their collaborative project from this inaugural six-month residency.
Free tours of the galleries from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Children’s activity table from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Free admission and cash bar
BxMA Co-Lab and First Fridays! Dance are generously supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
The Bronx Museum is excited to bring back the CommuniTea Senior Thursdays during Older Americans Month. Join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea.
During the four CommuniTea Senior Thursdays in 2017, Bronx-based artist Michele Brody will collaborate with Tea Consultant Jo-Ani Johnson and Chef Kareem Gonsalves to develop a unique pairing of organic SerendipiTea teas with exciting healthy dishes inspired by the extraordinary cultural mix of Bronx communities. The series is uniquely both cumulative and can exist as individual programs, should visitors only join for one event. All events will include a free tour of Museum exhibitions.
Free admission. All ages are welcome.
Senior Programs are generously supported by The Malka Fund and City Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson. CommuniTea, is made possible, in part by The Bronx Council of the Arts and SerendipiTea. Community and Public Programs are made possible by Booth Ferris Foundation, Con Edison, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund with generous support of New York City Council Speaker Melissa-Mark Viverito and Council Member Annabel Palma.
Hop on The Bronx Trolley! Join our First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum and enjoy a free guided discussion with artist Arlene Slavin of her exhibition Intersections currently on view in the Museum terrace.
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
Free admission and cash bar
The Bronx Museum Teen Council cordially invites you to attend the opening of Time: An exhibition of teen artwork organized by the Bronx Museum Teen Council. The exhibition features artworks by teen artists responding to the notion of time.
Discover the Grand Concourse's rich history through it's Art Deco architecture and design from the 1920s and 30s with the Art Deco Society of New York expert and Bronx historian Sam Goodman.
We'll start with a talk at the Museum at 1:00pm, and then go on a walking tour at 2:00pm.
A Spanish translator will be available during the tour.
Free admission, but RSVP required.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts welcomes the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) 2017 Convention, #BSAMFUTURISMO2017. BSAM is an annual Afrofuturism, black comics, film, and arts convention held throughout the United States and abroad.
BSAM encompasses different positions or basis of inquiry: Afrofuturism, Astro Blackness, Afro-Surrealism, Ethno Gothic, Black Digital Humanities, Black (Afro-future female or African Centered) Science Fiction, The Black Fantastic, Magical Realism, and The Esoteric. BSAM conventions include live performances, seminars, classes, hands on workshops, a full international film festival via MECCAcon, plays, sales of comics, art, and artisan creators, and much more. Students are welcome to submit proposals to participate.
BSAM annual conventions were co-founded by associate professor and chair of the Humanities department at Harris-Stowe State University, Reynaldo Anderson, and founder of Midwest Ethnic Convention for Comics and Arts (MECCA), Maia Crown Williams.
Book signing with author, Bronxite, and Founder and President of Latino Sports & Latinosports.com, Julio Pabón of his book Knockout: Fidel Castro visits the South Bronx.
Explore the universal, art languages of geometry and color with Bronx artist Roy Secord. Through an exploration of geometric, art expressions found in many, diverse cultures (the Eastern Mandala, Gothic Rose Windows, Native American art, African textile design and traditional Islamic art), along with simplified, color techniques, participants will create dynamic and colorful, one-of-a-kind works of art in collage technique. This class is open to beginner to advanced artists. Due to space limitations this event is first come, first serve.
Roy Secord is a 21-Century Modernist, who creates large-scale paintings and sculptures for the public art sector that are ultra-modern, hard-edged, and distilled to abstraction. “I draw from a continuum:”, says Secord, “a thread of universal communication and statement winding through ancestral cultures to future, technological societies. Geometry, color, and line are my language. My art (paintings and sculptures) are abstract narratives on beauty and dynamic orders that shift, change, and mutate.”
Free admission and happy hour drink pricing.
Join the Bronx Museum at the second Open Studio for the collaborative, interdisciplinary Co-Lab Residency. With this pioneering new program, the Museum has brought together choreographer Jasmine Hearn and visual artist Kameelah Rasheed to produce a new work launching May 2017. We invite you to see their work in progress, learn more about the artists, and their unique practices.
Co-Lab is an interdisciplinary residency program intended to deepen local exposure to dance, celebrate the borough’s storied legacy with the choreography, and foster connections to up-and-coming Bronx talent.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided discussion with Bronx-born photographer Clayton Frazier of his exhibition Clayton Frazier: Faces of the Island of Saint Dominique, which is currently on view in the Museum’s Community Gallery.
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
Free admission and cash bar
Join us for an afternoon of family art-making activities. Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent/guardian. Pre-register at tinyurl.com/FAApr2017.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invites guests 55 and older to the Summer Senior Luncheon. Join us for a delightful afternoon with free tours of the Museum’s exhibitions, live entertainment by Just Nuts, and lunch with friends, all free of charge.
This event is SOLD OUT. To RSVP for the waitlist email info@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000, ext. 135.
Produced in collaboration with Jay Mac Productions.
Public Programs are made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Senior Programs are generously supported by The Malka Fund and City Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson.
This event is SOLD OUT.
Kicking off the 18th Annual Havana Film Festival New York, the Bronx Museum and the Hostos Center for Arts & Culture will co-host a screening of Playing Lecuona, a musical travelogue and tribute to the internationally acclaimed Cuban pianist and piano composer, Ernesto Lecuona. Special performance by Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros. Introduction to the film by director JuanMa Villar. Music by DJ ASHO.
There will be a shuttle bus that will be scheduled to pick people up at the Bronx Museum and take them to Hostos Center for Arts & Culture.
5:30pm at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10456 To drop off the Hostos Center for Arts & Culture, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10451
6:30pm at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse To drop off the Hostos Center for Arts & Culture, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10451
Location: The Hostos Center for Arts & Culture, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10451
Tickets are free but reservations are required. Click here or call (718) 518-4455 for tickets. Limit four per person.
6:00 PM | Reception
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
7:00 PM | Film Screening of Playing Lecuona
Repertory Theater
8:30 PM | Musical Performance
by Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros. Music by DJ ASHO.
Create mosaics and drink beer with Bronx-based artists Jorge Valdes and Anthony Matulis. Valdes and Matulis will lead participants in an evening of art-making based on their vibrant, community mosaic projects and the artwork on view.
This event is SOLD OUT.
To RSVP for the waitlist email info@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000, ext. 135.
Free admission and cash bar
Please join Bronx Museum Artist-in-Residence Humberto Díaz at his open studio in Port Morris, as he showcases the various sculptures, drawings, photographs, and site-specific interventions he created during his two visits to New York City. Díaz’s residency is part of the cultural exchange initiative Wild Noise / Ruido Salvaje, on view at the Bronx Museum from February 17 – July 3, 2017.
The Bronx Museum will be providing complimentary transportation from the museum to the Open Studio for any interested parties, beginning at 2:30 pm with pick up at the Brook Avenue 6 train stop at 2:50 pm. To RSVP for transportation, please contact Heather Reyes at 718-681-6000, ext. 112 or hreyes@bronxmuseum.org.
For those who would rather meet at the studio the address is 605 East 132nd St, 5th Fl. Take the 6 train to Brook Avenue and it's a short walk from the station. Please note: the complimentary bus will be scheduled to pick up folks from the Cypress avenue station at 2:50pm and take them to the studio.
Celebrate Women’s History Month at an evening of storytelling, poetry and music inspired by the Bronx and the works of art on view at the Bronx Museum. Make your voice heard in our open mic!
Hosted by Maria Aponte and featuring visual artist Francheska Alcantara, poet Peggy Robles-Alvarado, and storyteller Robin Bady.
Free admission and cash bar
The Board of Trustees of the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museum
Chairperson Joseph Mizzi, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially
invite you to attend the opening of our Spring Season.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
2:00pm: Bronx Museum Members tour of The Neighbors by guest curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy. RSVP for tour to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718-681-6000, ext. 120.
3:00pm: Performance of Volver, Volver by Irvin Morazan in the North Wing Gallery. Morazan is an artist in the exhibition The Neighbors, part three: Love Thy Neighbor
3:15pm: Join the Bronx Museum’s Executive Director Holly Block and Museo Nacional curator Aylet Ojeda for a tour of Wild Noise / Ruido Salvaje. Tour begins in the North Wing Lobby.
4:30pm: Live music by Melvis Santa & Ellas-Son and interactive dancing by Lorenz Latin Dance Studio
Performance by Bronx Museum artist in residence Humberto Díaz will be ongoing throughout the day in various spaces in the Museum galleries. Díaz's work will be showcased in Wild Noise / Ruido Salvaje.
Free admission and cash bar
Caribbean cocktail provided by Port Morris Distillery
The Bronx Museum invites you to a private tour of The Armory Show on Friday, March 3, 2017 at 12PM. Holly Block, Executive Director and Claudia Calirman, Associate Professor of Art History at John Jay College (CUNY) will guide the group through a select group of notable galleries featuring Contemporary and Modern Art.
Space is limited and please RSVP to Allison Grandy at agrandy@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000, ext.174 no later than Monday, February 20.
Please note the time has been updated from 11:00am to 12:00pm
The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Dance and Visual Arts Collaborative Residency Program (BxMA Co-Lab) is a six-month dance residency at The Bronx Museum of the Arts for a dancer to develop a new work or work-in-progress together with a visual artist utilizing the Museum’s performance and rehearsal spaces.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a celebration of Women’s History Month with La Reina Del Barrio, Rhina Valentin! During the event Rhina will award four powerful women with the NYC Mother’s Flo – Women in Film and Media Award for effortlessly balancing career and family. The night will be filmed for broadcast on her new television series, COLORS OF RHINA. Presented in collaboration with COLORS OF RHINA.
Free admission
On Monday, February 27, 2017 The Bronx Museum of the Arts will celebrated its annual benefit and auction, Get Down and AIM High at The Conrad New York in Lower Manhattan. Proceeds from the event help support the Bronx Museum.
On the South Bronx Waterfront documents artist Linda Cunningham creating the 24 foot wide, collaged, canvas artwork currently on view in the Bronx Museum lobby entitled South Bronx Waterfront Sagas. The artwork depicts the existing state of the abandoned, inaccessible Mott Haven and Port Morris areas of the South Bronx waterfront. The film explores the social and political issues driving the artist, and considers the relationship between the artist and her surroundings. Du Pasquier became enamored of the Bronx when she was commissioned by French / German TV station ARTE to produce a film about the Bronx in 2010.
Did you hear that The Bronx Museum of the Arts is expanding? While construction is underway, the Museum will be offering programming offsite. In this exciting time, we want to hear from you.
• Where would you like to see programs?
• What kinds of programs would you like to attend?
• Which partners should BxMA seek out?
Come to our community meeting and share your thoughts. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Free admission. Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Revel in dance, community, and urban artistry with It’s Showtime NYC (IST)! Celebrating New York City street culture, IST provides performance and professional development opportunities to street and subway dancers as a legal alternative to dancing in subway cars. It’s Showtime NYC performers will showcase dance styles and open the floor for all guests to join.
Featuring guest performers Full Circle Souljahs, Lock In City, Kunle, Klassic & Havoc
FREE, all ages, backgrounds and skill levels are welcome. Presented by Dancing in the Streets, It’s Showtime NYC, and The Bronx Museum for the Arts.
Have you participated in Bronx Stories, Back in the Bronx or Boogie on the Boulevard? If so, we’d love to hear from you! Come tell us about your favorite programs from the past years, and what programming you’d like to see in the future at BxMA. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Refreshments and snacks will be served.
Carnegie Hall comes to the Bronx! Join us for a special performance by Brown Rice Family, a high-energy, nine-member ensemble that combines an eclectic mix of musical infl uences that encompass reggae, hip-hop, Brazilian, Afrobeat, jazz, rock, Latin, and funk. With members hailing from all over the world, Brown Rice Family draws on its diverse backgrounds to create a colorful, rhythm-driven, and highly danceable sound.
Concert begins at 7:30pm
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for a free guided tour of the exhibitions with a Museum teaching artist.
Learn about the creative process and engage with the artists at the first open studio for the Co-Lab Residency. Choreographer Jasmine Hearn and visual artist Kameelah Rasheed will discuss their unique practices and share new collaborative work that will be launched on May 2017.
Painting, collaging, and happy hour with Bronx artist Dennis Redmoon Darkeem. Darkeem will lead participants in an evening of art-making based on his project New Understandings, inspired by refl ections on the new year.
Happy hour drink pricing
Celebrate the Lunar New Year with costumed folk dances, authentic music, and Lion Dance, presented by the New York Chinese Cultural Center. Learn traditional techniques of paper cutting and calligraphy at 2:00pm. Performances begin at 3:00pm. Produced in collaboration with the New York Chinese Cultural Center.
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening, FLEETING. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen.
This event is SOLD OUT.
Steps Forward is a presentation of the latest work by Bronx-born, multidisciplinary artist Abdul Latif. The night will feature live performances of Latif’s choreography by New York City Ballet principal dancer Amar Ramasar (also born in the Bronx), Former Alvin Ailey Principal Dancer Briana Reed, more. Steps Forward will include discussions with the Latif and the performers led by Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance co-founder Charles Rice-González and correspondent for CNN En Español Maria Santana, a viewing of collaborative photography projects with award-winning videographer Tarik Mohamed and photographer Ayman El Sayed. Featuring Original Music from Acclaimed Producer J.PERIOD (The Roots, The Hamilton Mixtape).
Still looking for that perfect holiday gift? Shop the Bronx Museum Store in person on December 14, 15, and 16 and receive double discounts when you present your membership card! Our store features a great selection of exhibition catalogues, Bronx history books, tote bags, mugs, Morris Perk Coffee and more!
Not a member? Click here to become one today.
The Museum will be closed to the public on Christmas and New Year's Day. The Museum will be open on the following holidays from 11:00am to 6:00pm: December 24 - Christmas Eve; December 26 - After Christmas Day; December 31 - New Year's Eve; January 2 - After New Years Day.
*The Museum, normally closed on Mondays, will be open both Monday, December 26th and Monday, January 2nd from 11:00am to 6:00pm
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana II presents Navidad Flamenca as part of the 8th annual Flamenco in the Boros Tour.
Free admission and cash bar
Save your holiday shopping for the Bronx Museum’s 2nd Annual Holiday Market Weekend! In collaboration with FromTheBronx.com, The South Bronx Farmer’s Market, THE POINT, and The Bronx Beer Hall, the Bronx Museum welcomes more than 50 local artists, artisans, farmers, bakers, brewers, and more for a holiday market that is not to be missed.
Please note: There is an error on the Nov - Dec 2016 Program Brochure. The time of the event is from 11:00am - 6:00pm.
Free admission
Join us for a tour of The Neighbors, part two, in two parts: Sanctuary: Andrea Bowers and Home: Andrea Aragón with guest curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy.
Free admission
As part of the 15th Annual Coquito Masters competition, contestants bring in their version of coquito, a traditional coconut-based Puerto Rican holiday drink, and you become the judge to see who goes on to the 2016 New York finals! ID required to taste and vote. Presented by the International Coquito Federation.
Free admission
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for a free guided tour of the exhibitions with a Museum teaching artist.
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening, FOOD. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen.
Prepare a five-minute story about FOOD. Vittles, grub, cuisine, groceries, homemade or take out. From frozen dinners to nuts and berries, bring us stories of nourishment. From gluttony to gluten intolerance, tales of your daily bread.
The Moth is excited to be back in The Bronx! We have set aside a handful of complimentary tickets for Bronx residents. Please RSVP to info@bronxmuseum.org if you are interested in this offer.
This event is SOLD OUT.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts welcomes the 5th Latin American Art Biennial
for a day of performance interventions. The work of performance artists challenges the audience to think about the relationship between body and matter. Join us and experience these ephemeral and authentic works.
Daryl Homer, Olympic Silver Medal Fencer, joins us to celebrate his triumphant return to The Bronx after the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games! Photographer Steven Counts, whose recent photo series features Homer in locations throughout his Bronx childhood community, will join him.
Lunch is included in the ticket purchase. Free admission for Bronx Museum members; $10 lunch for non-members.
Join us for the book launch of 2Create - Art Collaborations in New York City with author Yoav Litvin. The evening will also feature a one-night viewing of 2Gether - Portraits of duos in Harlem and the South Bronx, a collaborative photography exhibit by Litvin and Tau Battice, and performance by The Peace Poets. Music by DJ NessDigi.
Free admission and cash bar
Winners and Finalists of the Annual Coquito Masters competition will have their delicious coquitos for sale at the Bronx Museum! Come buy a variety of coquito, the traditional Puerto Rican holiday drink reminiscent of eggnog, and be ready to celebrate the holidays in style.
Free admission
Presented by the International Coquito Federation.
Following performances by poets Earl Majette and Bonafide Rojas, Bronx Writers Center Director Charlie Vázquez will moderate an open discussion on poetry and social healing as it applies to their years of work with at-risk youth in Bronx WritersCorps.
Bronx WritersCorps is a spoken word and creative writing workshop series that has supported underserved youth in homeless and detention centers in the South Bronx for more than 20 years.
Free admission and cash bar
Presented by Bronx Council on the Arts, the Bronx Museum of the Arts and New York Council for the Humanities.
Join us for A League of Gentlemen, an immersive multi-media experience with live performances by Bronx-born artist Abdul Latif. A League of Gentlemen is a survey of Latif’s early works, created during his residency tenure and commissioned for Ballet Hispanico, Lincoln Center, Joffrey Ballet, Harvard University, and more.
Free admission and cash bar
Carnegie Hall comes to the Bronx! Join us for a special performance by Bronx-born Latin jazz musician Carlos Henríquez and the Bronx Pyramid Sextet.
Free admission and cash bar
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided discussion with artist Linda Cunningham of her artwork South Bronx Waterfront Sagas, which is currently on view in the Museum lobby.
Join us at the Museum's Fall Benefit for a unique opportunity to tour private art collections at five stunning homes on the Upper West Side, New York.
A light breakfast will kick off the day, followed by a tour to the collections of some of the Upper West Sides most renowned art collectors. Tour and Lunch: Members: $300, Non-Members: $350
Join us for a tour of The Neighbors, part two, in two parts: Sanctuary: Andrea Bowers and Home: Andrea Aragón with guest curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and artist Andrea Aragón.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invites you to attend the opening of our Fall Open House.
5:00pm Bronx Museum Members tour of The Neighbors, part two, in two parts: Sanctuary: Andrea Bowers and Home: Andrea Aragón by guest curator Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and artist Andrea Bowers. RSVP for tour to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718-681-6000, ext. 120.
Open House New York celebrates the best examples of design and planning throughout the five boroughs, from historic to contemporary, and helps foster a more informed conversation about how architecture and urban design sustain New York as a vibrant place to live, work, and learn. For OHNY Weekend a Bronx Museum Artist Educator will offer guests a short tour of the award-winning 16,000 sq. ft. North Wing designed by Arquitectonica as well as The Neighbors 2 exhibition.
2:00 pm tour on October 15 and October 16
Free admission
The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invites guests 55 and older to the Fall Senior Luncheon. Join us for a delightful afternoon with free tours of the Museum’s exhibitions, live entertainment, and lunch with friends, all free of charge.
This event is SOLD OUT
Join us in celebrating and supporting The Bronx Museum of the Arts and P.S. 73’s Arts Education partnership, featuring:
Paul’s Power
Shareef Keyes and the Groove
Grupo Descarrilao
and Master of Ceremonies
Baron Ambrosia
Performance and tour with Sur Rodney (Sur) with Art+ members Lola Flash, Hunter Reynolds, and Babirye Leilah
1:00pm to 3:00pm: Survival AIDS "Into the Light" performance by Hunter Reynolds and Babirye Leilah.
Reynolds and Leilah will create an interactive ritual space using a combination of Ugandan ritual traditions. The performance will begin on the 2nd floor North Wing Terrace and come to rest in the Art AIDS America galleries during the tour. Reynolds’ performance will include an interactive piece, during which visitors may adhere the ART+ Positive flag stickers to the artist along with ritual objects made by participants. to adorn the artists body.
3:00pm: Tour of the Art AIDS America exhibition with archivist, writer and curator Sur Rodney (Sur) and photographer Lola Flash at the Bronx Museum.
The tour will focus on the absence and history of People of Color and Women in ACT UP and AIDS activism, and speak to the representation of People of Color and women in the exhibition along with artworks represented in the exhibition that speak to each of them in remarkable ways.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for a free guided tour of the exhibitions with a Museum teaching artist.
Exclusive to Friends of AIM Members and above
Friends of AIM Members are invited to join us for a private reception and tour of the exhibition Art AIDS America and the outdoor installation of Rob Raphael’s Symposium with artists and Bronx curators.
Exclusive to Director's Circle Members
Celebrate the start of the fall season at a special cocktail reception for the Director’s Circle, Bronx Museum trustees, and artists at the rooftop terrace and Upper West Side penthouse apartment of cultural patrons Deborah Sale and Ted Striggles.
In Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930's to the 1960's, co-editors Bob Gumbs and Mark Naison document the African American experience in the Bronx during the years when the Bronx was seen as a place of hope and opportunity for Blacks and Latinos. At the event Gumbs, a Bronx native, and Naison will read excerpts and signed copies of the book.
Gather around a dizzying circle of New York’s most talented street dancers for a radical re-take on the traditional cypher with Champion B-girl Anne Nguyen and a specially assembled dream team of young NYC street dancers.
Join The Bronx Museum of the Arts for a private tour of A Deeper Dive, curated by Jonathan David Katz and Andrew Barron, at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Leslie-Lohman is located at 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY.
Join us for a solo spoken word performance by Karen Finley. Finley will perform selections from her artworks on the subject of HIV/AIDS, which allows her characteristic style of humorous improvisation and wit to both alleviate and add tension to the work surrounding loss, suffering, memory, poetics, and the human experience.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the Yankees and add some pep to your step before the game! Eddie Palmieri, Grammy Award-winning pianist, musician and composer joining the celebration, along with instructors from Lorenz Latin Dance Studio who will offer a Salsa dance class accompanied by the Bronx-based, multi-ethnic ensemble ¡Retumba!
Location: Yankee Stadium
This panel brings together a group of medical researchers whose pioneering work on HIV/AIDS in the Bronx has helped improve the health of marginalized and under-served populations in the US and around the world.
Please join Bronx Museum Executive Director Holly Block and Architect Monica Ponce de Leon at public Town Hall to discuss plans to renovate the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Before design begins, we want to hear what you love about the Bronx Museum and what you want to see in its future. RSVP preferred but not required.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is working with StoryCorps—a non-profit, public media, and oral history organization—to record stories related to the current exhibit, Art AIDS America, specifically focusing on communities of color who were affected by the AIDS crisis, and to preserve the stories at the Library of Congress.
Pioneer B-girl Ana “Rokafella” Garcia hosts a tribute to choreographer and dancer Willi Ninja in memory of the 10th anniversary of his passing. Join us to commemorate the career of one of Voguing's visionary pioneers and powerful advocate for HIV/AIDS awareness with the presentation of the first Willi Ninja Award, a performance by the NYC Legendary House of Ninja, runway show, video and film montage celebrating the life of Willi Ninja, and a reception featuring music by Guest DJ'S including DJ KS360.
Get ready to Boogie! On May 29, June 26, July 31, and August 28, 2016, the last Sundays of each month, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse starting at 162nd Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
Bronx Stories is an evening of storytelling, poetry and music inspired by the Bronx and the works of art on view in the exhibition currently on view. Make your voice heard in our open mic. Hosted by Sammy “Samson” Maldonado, and featuring Katalina Rodriguez, Rashawna Wilson, and Sydney Valerio. Produced in collaboration with the Full Circle Ensemble.
Location: 2nd floor North Wing and throughout the galleries
Free admission and cash bar
Pre-register here.
Free admission
Location: Target Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Bronx, New York
LOCATION CHANGE: Due to the Excessive Heat Warning in effect this weekend, Family Affair and Summer Salsa Saturdays have been relocated from the Target Bronx Community Garden. They will take place at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, located at 1040 Grand Concourse between 165th St. and 166th St. The events remain free and open to the public (so bring a friend!).
Dancers from Lorenz Latin Dance Studio will lead a FREE salsa class followed by a performance by salsa band Los Monstritos.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Dance and Visual Arts Collaborative Residency Program (BxMA Co-Lab) is a six-month dance residency at The Bronx Museum of the Arts for choreographers to develop a new work or work-in-progress together with a visual artist utilizing the Museum’s performance/rehearsal spaces.
Application for the Fall 2016 season is now closed.
Grab a blanket and join us for a free outdoor screening of the Afripedia documentary series. In Afripedia, Stocktown Films presents an interlinked visual mixtape of today’s most interesting emerging visual artists, filmmakers, fashion designers, musicians, photographers and cultural activists from Africa’s biggest metropolises.
Produced in collaboration with the African Film Festival and Asho Productions. Special performance by The Cimarron Project. Music by DJ Asho
Free admission
Location: Joyce Kilmer Park, Grand Concourse between E 161st St and E 164th St
Rain Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for a free guided tour with photographer Frank Gimpaya of the exhibition En Foco Presents, Mask: Photography by Frank Gimpaya, which is currently on view.
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
Free admission and cash bar
Chairperson Laura Blanco, Executive Director Holly Block, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invite you to a cocktail party hosted by Ian and Serge Krawiecki Gazes.
Join Visual AIDS and the Bronx Museum for a very special Bronx Stories. Bronx Stories is an evening of storytelling, poetry and music inspired by The Bronx and the works of art on view in the Art AIDS America exhibition. Presentations by Orlando Ferrand, Wanda Hernandez-Parks and Charlie Vazquez. Hosted by Simply Rob. Then make your voice heard in our open mic.
Location: 2nd floor North Wing and throughout the galleries
The Keith Haring Foundation – Project Street Beat Mobile Medical Unit of Planned Parenthood of New York City will join us during the event.
Presented by the AIDS Center of Queens County (ACQC) and AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Brooklyn, artist Joey Terrill and Professor Robb Hernandez will offer a guided tour of the Art AIDS America exhibition.
Location: Meet in the North Wing Lobby
This event/tour is sponsored by AIDS Center of Queens County (ACQC) and AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) through our Latino Outreach & Understanding Division (LOUD).
Education and Community Engagement Programs are generously supported by the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Keith Haring Foundation, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, Arcus Foundation, and May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation.
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Laura Blanco, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to attend our Summer Open House.
Pre-register here.
Free admission
Location: Target Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Bronx, New York
Join us for some fun in the sun at the Target Bronx Community Garden, just down the street from the Bronx Museum. Dancers from Lorenz Latin Dance Studio will lead a FREE salsa class followed by a performance by salsa band William Valentin.
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Ave., Highbridge
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Presented in partnership with New York Restoration Project (NYRP).
First Fridays will carry on!
Join us for an indoor screening of Africa United followed by a very special performance by Dayramir Gonzales & Habana enTRANCE. Music by DJ Asho. Produced in collaboration with the African Film Festival and Asho Productions.
6:30pm Screening of Africa United
8:00pm Performance by Dayramir Gonzales & Habana enTRANCE
Free admission and cash bar
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
About the film
Africa United by Debs Gardner-Paterson, Rwanda/United Kingdom, 2011, 90 min, English. African United tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children and their bid to achieve their lifelong dream to take part in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Football World Cup in Johannesburg.
Join us for the closing reception for our spring exhibitions, Bronx Focus: Paintings by Valeri Larko, Martine Fougeron: The South Bronx Trades, and Michelle Stuart, Theatre of Memory: Photographic Works.
2:00 pm - Bronx Museum Members tour of the galleries led by artist Valeri Larko and Bronx Museum Exhibitions & Collections Manager Heather Reyes. RSVP to membership@bronxmuseum.org.
Happy hour pricing at the XM cafe!
Get ready to Boogie! On May 29, June 26, July 31, and August 28, 2016, the last Sundays of each month, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse starting at 162nd Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
Enjoy a New York Yankees game in style while supporting The Bronx Museum of the Arts!
Join fellow Yankees fans for a special Benefit Ballgame in a Party City Party Suite on the SAP Suite Level of Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, June 21st. Each ticket includes unlimited food, beverages and spirits, as well as the opportunity to enjoy the private suite and seats overlooking the outfield.
All proceeds from this Benefit Ballgame will support the Bronx Museum's education programs. Tickets are Members: $350 each ($225 is tax-deductible); Non-Members: $375 each ($250 is tax-deductible). For additional information contact Allison Grandy at agrandy@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000 x174.
The Bronx Museum welcomes Emmy Award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano, formerly “Maria” of Sesame Street, for a special reading of her memoir, Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx. Manzano will share personal anecdotes about her upbringing in the borough, read excerpts, and sign copies of the book.
Free admission for Bronx Museum members; $10 for non-members
Lunch by David Greco’s Arthur Avenue Caterers is included.
If you are a Bronx Museum member, or would like to become a member, please email membership@bronxmuseum.org to reserve your ticket.
If you would like to purchase a ticket without becoming a member, please click here.
Pre-register here.
Free admission
Location: Target Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Bronx, New York
Join us for some fun in the sun at the Target Bronx Community Garden, just down the street from the Bronx Museum. Dancers from Lorenz Latin Dance Studio will lead a FREE salsa class followed by a performance by salsa band !Retumba!
Celebrate the contributions of women who have carved a niche for themselves in the global urban culture at the launch of B-girl and director Ana “Rokafella” Garcia’s All the Ladies Say, Part 2, the second part of her documentary All the Ladies Say (2010) about women who break dance. Featuring performances by local MCs, live graffiti, and an epic b-girl battle.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: Lower Gallery
The Bronx Museum of the Art’s Teen Council cordially invites you to attend the opening of Alienation and Acceptance, an exhibition of teen artwork.
Free admission
Location: South Wing Lobby & Community Gallery
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for a free, guided tour by artist Valeri Larko of her exhibition Bronx Focus: Paintings by Valeri Larko as well as free, guided tours of the current exhibitions by a Bronx Museum Teaching Artist, including Spotlight: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres and Martine Fougeron: The South Bronx Trades.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Get ready to Boogie! On May 29, June 26, July 31, and August 28, 2016, the last Sundays of each month, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse starting at 162nd Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, art and fitness programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond.
In celebration of Senior Citizen’s Month, join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea, an interactive performance series by Bronx-based artist Michele Brody. Come to one or all of the four programs, each of which will feature a tea service, snacks, and a collaborative activity culminating on May 26th.
This week, Movement of the People will lead a dance performance to a live reading of the group poem created during the May 12th program.
Free admission and snacks. Ttea provided by SerendipiTea, snacks provided by Trader Joe's and Walkers Shortbread.
Location: North Wing Lobby Café
How to be an Artist and Not Lose your Mind is a one-night workshop run by artist William Lee (Master Lee) for artists, writers, musicians, actors, and performers. How to be an Artist… will address some of the creative being’s greatest concerns – how to make a living, how to find and express your character, how to deal with hecklers, how to manage the emotional strain of being an artist. Come to meet your fellow artists and keep your mind intact.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
In celebration of Senior Citizen’s Month, join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea, an interactive performance series by Bronx-based artist Michele Brody. Come to one or all of the four programs, each of which will feature a tea service, snacks, and a collaborative activity culminating on May 26th.
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) will host its seventh annual Art Museum Day on Wednesday, May 18. Visit our galleries and take advantage of 20%-off memberships at all levels and a free tote for new members.
Free admission
For details on membership, click here.
Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition Bronx Focus: Paintings by Valeri Larko with the artist herself, Valeri Larko.
Free admission
FLOW.16 – this year’s sixth annual exhibition – will be open to the public from May-November, and will feature installations reflecting and encouraging interaction with the Park’s history and environment. Each year, FLOW features site specific projects by participants in the Bronx Museum’s Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program for emerging artists. This event is created with support from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
This free public event will offer a range of interactions with the pieces and the artists. For more information visit flowartnyc.org.
Free admission
Location: Randall's Island
In celebration of Senior Citizen’s Month, join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea, an interactive performance series by Bronx-based artist Michele Brody. Come to one or all of the four programs, each of which will feature a tea service, snacks, and a collaborative activity culminating on May 26th.
This week, Gary Glazner of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project will collaborate with audience members on interactive poetry pieces.
Free admission and snacks. Ttea provided by SerendipiTea, snacks provided by Trader Joe's and Walkers Shortbread.
Location: North Wing Lobby Café
Time: 12pm to 2pm
As part of Jane’s Walk Weekend—a series of free guided tours held each year in memory of urban activist Jane Jacobs—Bronx native and urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President Sam Goodman will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse. While visiting key sites along this major thoroughfare, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and explain the development of its diverse neighborhoods and communities.
Free admission
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening, MAMA RULES!. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen.
The Moth is excited to be back in The Bronx! We have set aside a handful of complimentary tickets for Bronx residents. Please RSVP to info@bronxmuseum.org if you are interested in this offer. **Complementary tickets are now sold out**
$10 General admission tickets are now available at themoth.org. Tickets may be available at the door, but the majority of tickets are available online. Seating is first come, first served.
In celebration of Senior Citizen’s Month, join us every Thursday in May for a special presentation of CommuniTea, an interactive performance series by Bronx-based artist Michele Brody. Come to one or all of the four programs, each of which will feature a tea service, snacks, and a collaborative activity culminating on May 26th.
Dancer Simone Coonrod, a known figure in the New York City swing dancing scene of the 1990s, will perform to an audience-produced poem.
Free admission and snacks. Ttea provided by SerendipiTea, snacks provided by Trader Joe's and Walkers Shortbread.
Location: North Wing Lobby Café
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission and snacks. Ttea provided by SerendipiTea, snacks provided by Trader Joe's and Walkers Shortbread.
Location: North Wing Lobby Café
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for free guided tours by artist Valeri Larko of her exhibition Bronx Focus: Paintings by Valeri Larko and photographer Martine Fougeron of her exhibition Martine Fougeron: The South Bronx Trades.
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody will also be hosting CommuniTea Time, part of a series in which the artist encourages participants to share tea and exchange stories that are then transcribed onto a tea filter quilt, in conjunction with her exhibition Reflections in Tea.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
Find inspiration, meet fellow writers and artists, and learn new writing techniques at two workshops hosted by the Bronx Council of the Arts' Bronx Writers Center. Click here to view the complete schedule. Hosted by international authors as part of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Explore the often unacknowledged history and impact of Africans in the Americas a millennium before the European “discovery.” Moderated by Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr and featuring panelists Kassahun Checole, C. Danny Dawson. In conjunction with the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
Free admission and cash bar; Click here to RSVP
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Meet members of Las Reinas Chulas, a socially conscious Mexican cabaret company, as they discuss their creative process and show clips from their hilarious live performances. Presented in collaboration with the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature and The Bronx Writers Center at the Bronx Council on the Arts.
Free admission and cash bar; Click here to RSVP
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
Delight your inner cinephile with a curated panel of 6 indie short films, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. In collaboration with Made in The Bronx, a screening series organized by The Bronx Filmmakers that features short films shot in the Bronx by Bronxites.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
Get an insider’s perspective on our current exhibition Michelle Stuart, Theatre of Memory: Photographic Works when artist Michelle Stuart and guest curator Gregory Volk join us for an engaging gallery talk and reception.
Free admission
Location: North Wing Gallery
Celebrate all things women with an evening of storytelling, poetry and music inspired by the Bronx and the works of art on view at the Bronx Museum. Make your voice heard in our open mic!
Hosted by Maria Aponte, and featuring performances by Nene Ali, Michele Carlo, Annie Lanzillotto, and Julissa Rodriguez.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: 2nd floor North Wing and throughout the galleries
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for free guided tours by artist Valeri Larko of her exhibition Bronx Focus: Paintings by Valeri Larko and photographer Martine Fougeron of her exhibition Martine Fougeron: The South Bronx Trades.
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody will also be hosting CommuniTea Time, part of a series in which the artist encourages participants to share tea and exchange stories that are then transcribed onto a tea filter quilt, in conjunction with her exhibition Reflections in Tea.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
Kicking off the 17th Annual Havana Film Festival New York, the Bronx Museum will host a screening of La rumba me llama. Special performance by Melvis Santa & The Ashedi Project. Music by DJ ASHO.
Produced in collaboration with Asho Productions and the Havana Film Festival.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing and Lower Gallery
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
On Monday, March 14, 2016 The Bronx Museum of the Arts held its annual benefit and auction Wild Noise: Bronx/Havana.
All proceeds enabled the Museum to continue offering free public programs, Free Admission, internationally recognized exhibitions, and arts education programs to over 12,000 Bronx youth each year.
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THE EVENT IS SOLD OUT**
The Bronx Museum of the Arts welcomes Univisión’s Emmy-nominated primetime newscast anchor Jorge Viera for a discussion and signing of his new book, De todo menos perfecto. Viera will share personal and inspiring anecdotes about his remarkable career as well as read excerpts and sign copies of his book.
Featuring special guests Adriana Vargas and Katiria Soto, Univisión news anchors. Special performance by Víctor Rivera and El Sapo of Banda Atención Atención. Music by DJ Lobo.
Please RSVP to info@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000, ext.131 with your name, the number of guests in your party, your phone number, and email address.
*Please note that this event will be primarily hosted in Spanish.
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
Join us during our Back in the Bronx series when author Jerome Charyn will read from his anthology Bitter Bronx, sharing personal anecdotes about his upbringing in the borough as well as signing copies of the book. Lunch by David Greco’s Arthur Avenue Caterers is included.
Free admission for Bronx Museum members; $10 for non-members
If you are a Bronx Museum member, or would like to become a member, please email membership@bronxmuseum.org to reserve your ticket.
If you would like to purchase a ticket without becoming a member, please click here.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for free, guided tours of the museum galleries.
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody will also be hosting CommuniTea Time, part of a series in which the artist encourages participants to share tea and exchange stories that are then transcribed onto a tea filter quilt, in conjunction with her exhibition Reflections in Tea.
Free admission and cash bar
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
Bronx-based artist Michele Brody presents CommuniTea, a performance series featuring a shared tea service during which participants share loose-leaf tea with the artist and relate their stories, memories, thoughts, poems, and reflections, to be transcribed onto repurposed tea stained paper filters.
In conjunction with the artist's exhibition Reflections in Tea, on view at the Bronx Museum through May 29.
Free admission; Tea is provided by SerendipiTea
Celebrate this popular Chinese holiday with costumed folk dances and authentic music, presented by the New York Chinese Cultural Center. Youth will learn traditional techniques of paper cutting and calligraphy with hands-on art activities at 2:00pm, before the performances begin at 3:00pm. Produced in collaboration with the New York Chinese Cultural Center.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your family and friends at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Explore the exhibition Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and make your own artwork inspired by love in New York City. For children 12 and under with parent/guardian.
Pre-register here.
Free admission
Location: Throughout the galleries
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Laura Blanco and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to the opening reception for Michelle Stuart, Theatre of Memory: Photographic Works.
5:00pm - Bronx Museum Members Tour of the exhibition with Michelle Stuart and guest curator Gregory Volk. RSVP to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call (718) 681-6000 ext. 120.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing and Galleries
The conference Form and Feeling: The Making of Concretism is the culmination of a research project led by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Director of Curatorial and Education Programs at the Bronx Museum, in collaboration with Julieta Gonzalez, Chief Curator at Fundación Jumex, in Mexico City. It will bring together new scholarship that engages critically in a discussion of the legacy of Concrete art and the genealogy of experiential art practices of the 1960s and 1970s in Brazil. The investigations presented in the conference will further contribute to the research informing the exhibition Form and Feeling: The Making of Concretism, scheduled to open at the Bronx Museum in the spring of 2018.
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 -- Concourse level
This conference will be live-streamed. Click here for live feed.
Sergio Bessa leads a guided tour and discussion with Julie Ault— founding member of the artists’ collective Group Material (1979–1996) and an enthusiastic follower and friend of Martin Wong’s work since the early 1980s —and Alex Fialho—programs manager at Visual AIDS, an organization dedicated to utilizing art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue and supporting HIV+ artists.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Carnegie Hall comes to The Bronx! Join us for a special performance by trombonist Chris Washburne and his innovative Latin jazz group the SYOTOS Band.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a very special reading of Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century with co-editor Erika DeSimone. The celebration of Black History continues with BRONX:AFRICA, a multi-disciplinary arts exhibition at the Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Community College.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Co-Curator of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic Serigo Bessa will moderate a panel discussion looking back at the state of downtown New York's Lower East Side in the 1970s, a period which Wong immortalized in his work. The presentation will feature leading figures in architecture and design including Benjamin Binstock, David Freeland, Lia Gangitano, and Marvin Taylor.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Image credit: Martin Wong, Starry Night, 1982. Gift of Suzy and Joseph Berland. 2008.10
Due to the impending inclement weather this event has been rescheduled. The new date is Saturday, March 5 at 12pm.
Join us during our Back in the Bronx series when author Jerome Charyn will read from his anthology Bitter Bronx, sharing personal anecdotes as well as signing copies of the book.
Lunch by David Greco’s Arthur Avenue Caterers is included with non-member ticket purchase.
Free admission for Bronx Museum members; $10 for non-members
If you are a Bronx Museum member, or would like to become a member, please email membership@bronxmuseum.org to reserve your ticket.
If you would like to purchase a ticket without becoming a member, please click through to purchase a ticket via PayPal.
Dan Cameron, curator of Martin Wong’s first museum survey at the New Museum in 1998, Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, will lead a tour of the Martin Wong: Human Instamatic exhibition.
Free admission
Location: North Wing Lobby
Celebrate the five year anniversary of Bronx Stories with a greatest hits night! Bronx Stories is an evening of storytelling, poetry and music inspired by the Bronx and the works of art on view at the Museum. Make your voice heard in our open mic. Hosted by Master Lee and featuring performances by Maria Aponte, Caridad "La Bruja" de la Luz, and James “Peach” McClory.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd floor North Wing and throughout the galleries
Co-Curator of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic Serigo Bessa will moderate a discussion between Arnaldo Cruz-Malave, Chris "Daze" Ellis, Yasmín Ramírez, and John Yau, exploring Wong's self-identification as a Chino-Latino and how that hybrid identity fostered his vision of America. The discussion is inspired by an interview between artist Martin Wong and co-curator Yasmín Ramírez, published for the first time in the accompanying exhibition catalogue.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana II presents Navidad Flamenca in collaboration with The Bronx Museum of the Arts as part of the 7th annual Flamenco in the Boros Tour.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
Filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and painter Jane Dickson, both of whom were close to Martin Wong during his lifetime, will lead a tour of the Martin Wong: Human Instamatic exhibition.
Free admission
Location: North Wing Lobby
As part of the 14th Annual Coquito Masters competition, contestants bring in their version of coquito, a traditional coconut-based Puerto Rican holiday drink, and you become the judge to see who goes on to the 2015 New York finals! ID required to taste and vote. Presented by the International Coquito Federation.
Free admission
Location: Lower Gallery
Interested in entering the competition? Email coquitomasters@gmail.com
Celebrate the holiday season at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Join us for an afternoon filled with art activities for the entire family.
Pre-register here.
For children 12 and under with parent/guardian
Free admission
Location: Throughout the galleries
The Bangladeshi American Creative Collective (BACC) presents a night of traditional and contemporary song and dance by local performers and a conversation exploring Bangladeshi histories in the diaspora today. In conjunction with the exhibition Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh.
Join us before the event for tours led by Transitions curator Ayesha Akhtar! Tours will begin in the Community Gallery at 3:30pm, 4:30pm, and 5:15 pm.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
Hop off The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour at the Bronx Museum for free, guided tours of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby & Galleries
On Wednesday evening, December 2nd, The Bronx Museum of the Arts celebrated our participation at the UNTITLED Art Fair and the forthcoming opening of Wild Noise at the Bronx Museum. The party was hosted by Board Chair Laura Blanco, Robert Shainheit & Executive Director, Holly Block. Continuing our Cuba theme, the booth at UNTITLED featured works by artists from the island, including limited editions by Humberto Diaz. All sales benefit the museum.
Join us and the BACC (Bangladeshi American Creative Collective) as we explore contemporary Bangladeshi art with a tour of the current exhibition Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh through an evening of readings and the written word. Featuring authors Abeer Hoque, Urayoan Noel, Jennifer Chowdhury, and more, plus a special performance!
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested). Enjoy mouth-watering Bengali snacks from Jhal NYC including local favorites such as jhal muri, chotpoti, and fuchka.
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Guests 55 and older are invited to the Fall Senior Luncheon for a delightful afternoon with tours of the Museum’s exhibitions, live entertainment, and lunch with friends—all free of charge.
Free admission
RSVP Required - SOLD OUT. We are no longer accepting RSVPs for this event.
Join us during PEN American Center’s PEN Mingle for an evening of drinks, engaging conversation, and updates on PEN's work defending free expression at home and abroad. In partnership with the Bronx Council on the Arts’ Bronx Writers Center. Featuring special guest Caridad De la Luz, aka "La Bruja”.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Laura Blanco, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to attend the opening of our Fall Season Open House. Enjoy four new exhibitions and music by Mobile Mondays!
2:00pm
Bronx Museum Members tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic with curators Sergio Bessa and Yasmin Ramírez. RSVP to membership@bronxmuseum.org or call 718-681-6000, ext. 120.
3:00pm
Public reception in the 2nd floor North Wing
Open studio for Cuban artist-in-residence Humberto Diaz
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: Throughout the Galleries
Join us for a special performance by Israeli guitarist Gilad Hekselman, whose lively, fluid sound and skillful improvisation have earned him recognition as a rising star in the New York City jazz scene.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum for a casual discussion with members of the Bronx Artist Documentary Project followed by a screening of the documentary Artistic Energy: The Bronx.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening, A FINE MESS. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen.
Tickets are SOLD OUT
Location: Lower Gallery
For Open House New York, a Bronx Museum Artist Educator will offer guests a short tour of the award-winning 16,000 sq. ft. North Wing designed by Arquitectonica as well as the ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition, the first museum survey to examine the radical social group founded by Puerto Rican youth in New York and Chicago in the 1960s.
Free admission
For Open House New York, a Bronx Museum Artist Educator will offer guests a short tour of the award-winning 16,000 sq. ft. North Wing designed by Arquitectonica as well as the ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition, the first museum survey to examine the radical social group founded by Puerto Rican youth in New York and Chicago in the 1960s.
Free admission
Join us for an opening reception for Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh, presented by The Bangladeshi American Creative Collective (BACC). Transitions features nine Bangladeshi photographers whose work reflects a diverse group of people, shifting economies, and changing lands.
Featuring performances by Basma Sheea and Rianjali.
Enjoy mouth-watering Bengali snacks from Jhal NYC including local favorites such as jhal muri, chotpoti, and fuchka.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: Community Gallery
Come have a last look at the popular ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York exhibition, closing Sunday at the Bronx Museum on October 18. Co-sponsored by NYU Latino Studies
On view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Loisaida Center and El Museo del Barrio, ¡Presente! offers an artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization—a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded reform in health care, education, housing, employment, and policing. Exhibition curators, artists, writers and members of the Young Lords Party will be on hand to sign the newly-released catalog accompanying the tripartite exhibition.
Copies of the catalogue for sale during the event and our online store
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Join us for the fourth installment of BX200 Virtual Artist Studios, featuring projected images by six of the BX200 artists followed by a casual discussion and Q&A. Music by DJ Marty.
Bronx-based alternative group The Nobodies, a group that combines visuals with live music, will be performing their final Secret Show of the summer.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Join us for an afternoon of art activities for the entire family at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Explore the exhibition ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York and make your own artwork inspired by the Young Lords.
For children 12 and under with parent/guardian
Pre-register here!
The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour stops at the Bronx Museum where author Monica S. Martinez will read excerpts from Seasonal Husband, followed by a Q&A. Martinez takes the reader on a journey of a young woman trying to find herself in the midst of an abusive relationship.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
B-girl and director Ana “Rokafella” Garcia hosts an exciting evening in honor of the anniversary of her film, All the Ladies Say. To celebrate, the Bronx Museum welcomes performances by Lah Tere and Queen Godis from Momma's Hip Hop Kitchen, live painting by Lady K, music by DJ KS360, and a B-girl dance-off that is not to be missed.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble comes to The Bronx Museum of the Arts as part of its five-borough Subway Series, performing a free one-hour concert featuring music for winds and strings. Donate art supplies (colored pencils, water color sets and glue sticks) to Subway Series partner Cool Culture, a nonprofit that works with NYC's most under-served families.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
New Yorkers famously approach commuting with fierce focus, staring straight ahead of them or at the ground as they pound the pavement from one location to another. Assembly Required: A Wandering Sukkah is a fine art, interactive sukkah experience designed to visually and energetically interrupt this urban rhythm. Created by artists Danielle Durchslag and Ryan Frank, the project is a mobile, artist-designed sukkah built in the Invisible Dog Art Center back garden, hoisted onto the bed of a pick up truck, and then set off to tour New York City. The truck will drive through New York City’s five boroughs during Sukkot, parking at varied locations over the course of the holiday.
Join us at the Museum's Fall Benefit for a unique opportunity to tour private art collections at five stunning homes.
A light breakfast will kick off the day, followed by a walking tour to the collections of some of the Upper East Side's most renowned art collectors. The collection hosts, who will be welcoming and guiding each tour, include: Charlotte Ford, Susan and Steven Jacobson, John Thomson, Joe and Cathy Zicherman and Alice Sachs Zimet. The tour will be followed by an optional lunch and viewing of the collection of Diane Ackerman.
Purchase tickets online here or by contacting Allison Grandy by phone at (718) 681-6000 x174 or by email at agrandy@bronxmuseum.org.
Join us as we welcome contributors to the new poetry anthology The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop-- a multi-generational examination of life and poetry in the age of hip hop. The book features 78 poets, born between 1961-1999, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters. Co-presented with Mosaic Literary Magazine and PEN American Center.
Featuring poets Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, Jose Olivarez, Safia Elhillo and Mahogany L. Browne
Copies of the book for sale during the event
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Holly Block Executive Director and Friends of Artist in the Marketplace cordially invite you to The Bronx Museum of the Arts' Boogie Down Meets Downtown: The AIM Party! Please join the Bronx Museum for a preview and celebration of the new AIM space downtown.
Featuring Outernational Beats by DJ Lightbolt
Location: Santos Party House at 96 Lafayette Street, between White and Walker Streets
6:00 - 6:30PM Hard hat tours of the new AIM space at 80 White Street
RSVP to bronxmuseum@fremontblueevents.com or click through to purchase tickets.
"Imagi/nation" will feature a panel of intergenerational artists who have worked with members of the Young Lords Organization on visual art and film projects from the 1970s to present. Hosted by ¡Presente! curator Yasmin Ramírez and featuring artists Sophia Dawson, Marcos Dimas, Yasmin Hernandez, Miguel Luciano, Juan Sánchez, and Caecilia Tripp. In conjunction with the exhibition ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
In response to the historic 1970 occupation of Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords, this panel addresses the prominence of health issues in the activism of the Young Lords, and the relevance of these historical struggles to contemporary health care debates. Featuring panelists Walter Bosque, Felipe Luciano, Miguel "Mickey" Melendez, Daniel Meyers, Carlito Rovira, and Cleo Silvers, and hosted by Johanna Fernández. In conjunction with the exhibition ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
Cuban artist Humberto Diaz joins the Bronx Museum as an artist-in-residence from September 10 – November 20, 2015. The residency is part of the cultural exchange initiative Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, organized with El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.
During his stay, Díaz will explore the Bronx environment and integrate into the borough’s culturally diverse community through participation in the Bronx Museum’s education and public programs. Artworks from El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes will be on view at the Bronx Museum in 2016, alongside a new installation by Diaz.
For more information about Wild Noise and the artist exchange, click here.
Join Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Bronx Calling co-curators Laura Napier and Hatuey Ramos-Fermín, Bronx-based AIM artists Lucia Hierro and Tracie Hervy, and Christine Licata, Director of Performing and Visual Arts at Casita Maria, for a discussion about Bronx artistic production. Moderated by Danielle Jackson.
Free admission and refreshments (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invites guests 55 and older to the Summer Senior Luncheon. Join us for a delightful afternoon with free tours of the Museum’s exhibitions, live entertainment, and lunch with friends, all free of charge.
Free admission; RSVP required. We are no longer accepting RSVPs for this event.
Bronx Borough Historian, professor, and author Lloyd Ultan and composer and author Shelley Olson join us for a signing of their new book The Bronx: The Ultimate Guide to New York City's Beautiful Borough. Ultan and Olson will share personal anecdotes about their experiences in the borough, read excerpts, and sign copies of the book. Lunch by David Greco’s Arthur Avenue Caterers is included in the ticket purchase.
Free admission for Bronx Museum members; $10 lunch for non-members
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Get ready for Boogie on the Boulevard! On August 2nd, 9th, and 16th, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 161st Street to 167th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, activities, and programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond, as well as local artists and performers.
Free admission
During the last Boogie on the Boulevard of the year, enjoy art activities for the entire family on the Grand Concourse. Get inspired by summer and the car-free streets and embrace your artistic creativity!
For children 12 and under with parent/guardian
Pre-register here!
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough's major thoroughfare on which the Bronx Museum is located, during Boogie on the Boulevard: Summer Sundays. While visiting key sites along this major thoroughfare, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and explain the development of its diverse neighborhoods and communities. Cohosted by Transportation Alternatives and the Bronx Museum.
Free admission; No RSVP required
Meet at 1:00pm in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
What is the future of the Boulevard of Dreams? Join artists, activists, and advocates for the Grand Concourse for a community visioning session. Learn about ongoing efforts to improve walkability and bikeability and share your own ideas to make the Grand Concourse safer and more enjoyable for everyone. Presented in collaboration with Transportation Alternatives.
Free admission
Location: North Wing Lobby
Get ready for Boogie on the Boulevard! On August 2nd, 9th, and 16th, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 161st Street to 167th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, activities, and programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond, as well as local artists and performers.
Free admission
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough's major thoroughfare on which the Bronx Museum is located, during Boogie on the Boulevard: Summer Sundays. Cohosted by Transportation Alternatives and the Bronx Museum.
Free admission; No RSVP required
Meet at 1:00pm in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
Grab a blanket and join us for a free, outdoor screening of the films Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories by Pam Sporn, Courtesy Third World Newsreel and Major Leagues? by Ernesto Pérez Zambrano, Courtesy Icarus Films. Special performance by Chino Pons and Grupo Irek. Music by DJ Asho. Produced in collaboration with the African Film Festival and Asho Productions.
Free admission
Location: Joyce Kilmer Park, Grand Concourse between E 161 Street and E 164 Street
Rain Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2nd floor North Wing
The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour stops at the Bronx Museum where artist Danny Simmons will discuss his new book, The Brown Beatnik Tomes, which presents a collection of prose and paintings from the artist and entrepreneur.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Get ready for Boogie on the Boulevard! On August 2nd, 9th, and 16th, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 161st Street to 167th Street will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun with free music, activities, and programs hosted by organizations from the Bronx and beyond, as well as local artists and performers.
Check back soon for more information!
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough's major thoroughfare on which the Bronx Museum is located, during Boogie on the Boulevard: Summer Sundays. Cohosted by Transportation Alternatives and the Bronx Museum.
Free admission; No RSVP required
Meet at 1:00pm in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
"Women of the Young Lords: The Revolution within the Revolution"
In conjunction with the exhibition ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York, this panel will address the significance of the struggle of women within the Young Lords, and will consider the relationship between the organization’s overarching goals and women’s equality. Hosted by Johanna Fernández, with panelists Iris Morales, Denise Oliver, Olguie Robles, Gloria Rodriguez, and Minerva Solla.
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough's major thoroughfare on which the Bronx Museum is located. Cohosted by Transportation Alternatives and the Bronx Museum.
Free admission; No RSVP required
Meet at 11:00am in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Laura Blanco, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to attend the opening of our summer open house.
6pm: Bronx Museum Members tour of ¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York with curators Johanna Fernández and Yasmin Ramírez. RSVP for member tour only to agrandy@bronxmuseum.org or call 718-681-6000, ext. 174.
Music by DJ Drift Raft
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Explore the history of the Young Lords party by bike! Join Boogie Down Rides, a Bronx based bicycling and art collective for a ride from the South Bronx to the Lower East Side visiting important sites that animate the story of the Young Lords Party.
Bring your own bike; helmets recommended.
Free admission; RSVP required - please register here
Location: Meet at 11am in the North Wing Lobby of the Bronx Museum
Grab a blanket and join us for a free outdoor screening of the film White Wedding. Devoted groom-to-be Elvis sets out on a 1,800-kilometer South African road trip in order to give his fiancée, Ayanda, a European-style dream wedding. Special performance by Tuelo & Her Cousins. Music by DJ Asho.
Free admission
Location: Joyce Kilmer Park, Grand Concourse between E 161st Street and E 164th Street
Rain Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Join us for an outdoor screening of From Mambo To Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale at the Target Community Garden. Henry Chalfant’s energetic documentary shows how the South Bronx was a cauldron of musical creativity from the 1940s through the 1970s. Music preceding the film by DJ David Medina. Produced in collaboration with the New York Restoration Project.
Free admission
Location: Target Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Bronx, New York
Join fellow New York Yankees fans for a special Benefit Ballgame in a Party City Party Suite on the SAP Suite Level of Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, June 23rd.
Each ticket includes unlimited food, beverages and spirits, as well as the opportunity to enjoy the private suite and seats overlooking the outfield.
All proceeds from this Benefit Ballgame will support the Bronx Museum's education programs. Tickets are $375 each ($250 of which is tax deductible). For additional information contact Allison Grandy at agrandy@bronxmuseum.org or 718-681-6000 x174
To purchase tickets please click here or download the reply form.
In conjunction with the exhibition Wild Noise, The Bronx Museum of the Arts is organizing a one-day symposium in Havana to deepen the Cuban community’s understanding of visual arts in the United States and further build cross-cultural dialogue between the two countries. Titled Wild Noise: Art in Times of Change, the symposium will feature three presentations by U.S. scholars and curators exploring important historic movements that influenced art made in the U.S.—with a particular focus on the 1970s.
Free admission
Location: El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Hemicilio Universal Art Building
San Rafael Street between Zulueta and Monserrate, Old Havana, Havana, Cuba
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse. While visiting key sites along this major thoroughfare, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and explain the development of its diverse neighborhoods and communities. Cohosted by Transportation Alternatives
Free admission; No RSVP required
Meet at 11:00am in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
New York Times Columnist and Lens Blog co-editor David Gonzalez will lead an engaging discussion and slide show on the importance of documenting the South Bronx. The award-winning journalist, a Bronx native and founding member of the Seis del Sur collective, will focus on how today's digital technologies can empower people to create their own visual narratives of everyday life and community issues.
During the event, photographer Joe Conzo will be signing copies of the catalogue Three Photographers from the Bronx, produced in conjunction with the exhibition closing on June 14.
Free admission
What makes you proud? Join us for an evening of storytelling, poetry and music inspired by the Bronx, the works of art on view at the Museum, and the theme for the night: PRIDE. Make your voice heard in our open mic. Hosted by Simply Rob and Monica S. Martinez. Performances by John “Chance” Acevedo, Vanessa Ferreira, and Marilyn Torres.
Produced in collaboration with poet, author, and Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council member Monica S. Martinez and Tantalizing Productions.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Cupcakes from Eva Jay's Sweets will be available for purchase.
Warm up in series of five fitness classes at the Bronx Museum! Get a lesson on culture, movement, and style, and break a sweat while you’re at it. This week, Yadira Suazo of Body By Yadi, will lead visitors through Get Bodied 2015, a strength-building total body workout.
Free admission and refreshments
Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM in collaboration with The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth “hat”. Later, names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen. Register early for this popular and well-attended event!
The Moth is excited to be back for the 2nd Bronx StorySLAM! We have set aside a handful of complimentary tickets for Bronx residents. Please RSVP to robin@themoth.org if you are interested in this offer.
$8 General admission tickets are available here. Tickets may be available at the door, but the majority of tickets are available online. Seating is first come, first served.
Warm up in series of five fitness classes at the Bronx Museum! Get a lesson on culture, movement, and style, and break a sweat while you’re at it. This week, Ashley Nicole of Lorenz Latin Dance Studio-Bronx will lead visitors through a salsa class.
Free admission and refreshments
The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour stops at the Bronx Museum where author Marcus Baram will read excerpts from Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, followed by a Q&A. In this biography, Baram traces the volatile journey of troubled musical genius Gil Scott-Heron, best known for his 1970 polemic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
FLOW.15 – this year's fifth annual exhibition – will be open to the public from May-November, and will feature new site-specific installations, all reflecting and encouraging interaction with the Park’s history and environment. Each year, FLOW features site specific projects by participants in the Bronx Museum’s Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program for emerging artists.
This free public event will offer a range of interactions with the pieces and the artists. For more information visit flowartnyc.org.
Free admission
Location: Randall's Island
Studio REV- & Friends of Brook Park present: The Time Machine Garden at Brook Park. A living growing, teeming time machine that takes visitors back in history to learn how humans shaped the Bronx - and envision what role we can play in shaping an ecologically-sustainable future.
Join us for a creative workshop at the Bronx Museum of the Arts where you'll brainstorm and co-create signage and the garden's broader vision. Free lunch provided! For youths, ages 11-18.
Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Media Lab
Please RSVP for this free workshop here by Wednesday, May 27th.
Warm up in series of five fitness classes at the Bronx Museum! Get a lesson on culture, movement, and style, and break a sweat while you’re at it. This week, Bharati S. Kemraj of the Bharati Dance Academy is leading a Bollywood Blast dance class.
Free admission and refreshments
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. Bring your friends and enjoy fun and engaging conversations about the artwork on view in our galleries.
Free admission and refreshments
Global Action Project invites young people to use our new interactive web application to author the history of the policing of youth of color and the legacy of youth activism and resistance. Participants will have the opportunity to add their own stories and media to the timeline as well as share their experiences and ideas about the impact of media and policing in our lives. Coming out of the workshop we'll have new skills and new ideas about how to analyze and use media in youth led movements for liberation from police violence and repression.
For teens and young adults, ages 14-22
Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Media Lab
Warm up in series of five fitness classes at the Bronx Museum! Get a lesson on culture, movement, and style, and break a sweat while you’re at it. This week, Kathryn Davis will lead visitors through "Meditation and Movement for Relaxation and Self-Healing" .
Free admission and refreshments
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. Bring your friends and enjoy fun and engaging conversations about the artwork on view in our galleries.
Free admission and refreshments
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) will host its sixth annual Art Museum Day on Monday, May 18. The Bronx Museum of the Arts is celebrating by providing full access to our four exhibition spaces and offering 20%-off memberships at all levels. As an added bonus, new members will also receive a complimentary Bronx Museum tote bag.
For details on membership click here.
Hey teens! Come play Minecraft and inhabit the world of the Hunger Games as you take part in this game jam where you will be a citizen of the Capitol or District 12. Play, negotiate, communicate, and collaborate with your team to keep your health and stay in the game. For teenagers, ages 14-19
The event is free but space is limited, so please RSVP here. For more information, contact Global Kids Inc. at hungercraft@globalkids.org or call (212) 226-0130.
Location: Media Lab
Warm up in series of five fitness classes at the Bronx Museum! Get a lesson on culture, movement, and style, and break a sweat while you’re at it. This week, Michelle González of Sweet Water Dance & Yoga, a Bronx studio located steps away from Yankee Stadium, will lead visitors through a low-intensity yoga class.
Free admission and refreshments
Please note that this event is BYOM: Bring Your Own Mat!
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. Bring your friends and enjoy fun and engaging conversations about the artwork on view in our galleries.
Free admission and refreshments
The Bronx Museum partners with The Bronx Writers Center at the Bronx Council on the Arts and the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature to host two workshops for writers followed by a panel of noted African writers in conversation about the importance of elders in life and art. Gain insights into Festival authors’ inspiration and methods, and take away some fresh ideas for your own writing. Co-sponsored by Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. Bring your friends and enjoy fun and engaging conversations about the artwork on view in our galleries.
Free admission and refreshments
The Bronx Trolley: First Wednesdays Arts & Culture Tour stops at the Bronx Museum where author Julian Voloj will discuss his graphic novel Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker with Benjamin Melendez, the protagonist of the book, as well as Joseph Mpa, a former Black Panther activist.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Welcome spring’s long-awaited arrival at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Explore healthy living and contemporary art through art activities and tours of our current exhibitions Three Photographers from the Bronx and Cuba Libre! Special guest workshop from the Bronx Children's Museum.
Free for children 12 and under with parent/guardian.
Pre-register to skip the line http://goo.gl/txVtbo
As part of Jane’s Walk Weekend—a series of free guided tours held each year in memory of urban activist Jane Jacobs—Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse. While visiting key sites along this major thoroughfare, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and explain the development of its diverse neighborhoods and communities. Cohosted by Transportation Alternatives and the Bronx Museum.
Free admission; No RSVP required
Meet at 11:00am in the Bronx Museum North Wing Lobby
Join us for a night of flamenco puro and contemporary dance. Four extraordinary artists from Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca will perform traditional flamenco presenting a range of comedy, joy, and sadness through dance. Artist and choreographer Nia Love will perform her new project entitled Recognize, an exploration of interpersonal relationships, with her young son, virtuoso drummer Kojo Roney.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Join us for an evening of poetry inspired by the Bronx and works of art on view. Make your voice heard in our open mic. Produced in collaboration with poet, author, and Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council member Monica S. Martinez. Performances by poets El David, Julissa Rodriguez, and Tony Watts aka Mental Sins.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Author and photographer Arlene Alda joins us for a signing of her new book Just Kids from the Bronx. Alda will share personal anecdotes about growing up in the borough, and read excerpts and sign copies of her book. Rick Meyerowitz, Bronxite and New Yorker cartoonist featured in Alda’s book, will be a special guest. Lunch by David Greco’s Arthur Avenue Caterers is included in the ticket purchase.
Free admission for Bronx Museum members; $10 lunch for non-members
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum and hear a reading of excerpts from the book Bronx Memoir Project by Bronx Writers Center Director Charlie Vázquez. The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) and the Bronx Writers Center released the book , an unprecedented collection of over fifty fragments of Bronx memoirs, as penned by the borough's residents, spanning generations, continents, languages, cultures and themes.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Kicking off the 16th Annual Havana Film Festival New York, The Bronx Museum will host a screening of Rumba Clave Blen Blen Blen, followed by a special performance by Dayramir Gonzalez & Habana enTrance. Music by DJ ASHO. By paying homage to the grand masters of the genre, Rumba Clave Blen Blen Blen takes us on a historical journey that traces the history of rumba in New York.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested). Food provided by Varadero Restaurant.
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
In honor of its 25th Anniversary, the film Paris is Burning will be screened at the Bronx Museum, followed by a Q&A led by BronxWorks’ Sexual Health Promotion Through Youth Leadership youth as well as a Voguing Workshop led by Visual AIDS artist Kia LaBeija. Presented in collaboration with Visual AIDS (visualaids.org) and BronxWorks.
Free admission and bar
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Can art be therapeutic? A representative from New York Creative Arts Therapists PLLC will take the audience on a mini-therapeutic journey, drawing inspiration from the art in the Museum as well as personal life experience. Participants will create their own art and consider the creative process from a therapeutic angle.
Free admission and refreshments
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Join The Bronx Museum of the Arts for our annual benefit and auction Celebrating Education at the Bronx Museum: 10 Years of Teen Council on Monday, March 2, 2015 at The Conrad New York in Lower Manhattan.
Celebrate among friends, bid on covetable artworks, and dine on food from Union Square Events while you support the Bronx Museum. All proceeds enable the Museum to continue offering free public programs, Free Admission, internationally recognized exhibitions, and arts education programs to over 12,000 Bronx youth each year.
To reserve your spot at this festive affair, contact Lora Evinger at Lora@livetreichard.com or 212.868.8450 x 205 or BUY TICKETS HERE.
Celebrate this popular Chinese holiday with costumed folk dances, authentic music, and Lion Dance, presented by the New York Chinese Cultural Center. Youth will learn traditional techniques of paper cutting and calligraphy with hands-on art activities at 2:00pm, before the performances begin at 3:00pm. Produced in collaboration with the New York Chinese Cultural Center.
Free admission
Join artist Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave and curators Isaac Aden and Joseph Ayers for a special tour of Escape Route: Paintings and Drawings by Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave followed by a reception. Escape Route presents a selection of works created from 2011 to 2014 by the New York-based artist.
Location: South Wing Atrium Lobby
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Celebrate Valentine’s Day at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Enjoy an afternoon of art activities for the entire family! For children 12 and under with parent/guardian.
Join us any time between 1pm and 4pm!
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum and hear a reading of excerpts from the book Bronx Faces and Voices, by co-editors Emita Hill and Janet Munch. In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough—before, during, and after the troubled years of arson, crime, abandonment, and flight in the 1970s and 1980s.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Join us for a film screening of Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer, followed by a Q&A with director Charlie Ahearn. In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style who would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. Charlie Ahearn, the director of the seminal graffiti movie Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had definition. Presented by the Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Join us for a screening of American Beatboxer, followed by a Q&A with Director Manauvaskar Kublall and Executive Producer Chesney Snow, moderated by Producer Rich McKeown. Don’t miss a beatboxing demonstration by the Drama Desk award-winning Chesney Snow and friends! Directed by Manauvaskar Kublall and produced by Richard McKeown, this award-winning documentary, which was recently inducted into the Harvard Hip Hop Archive, chronicles the evolution of beatboxing alongside the final day of the July 2010 competition to crown the first American Beatboxing Champion.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana II presents Navidad Flamenca in collaboration with The Bronx Museum of the Arts as part of the 7th annual Flamenco in the Boros Tour. This series of free community performances thrills audiences with the rich holiday customs of the Spanish-speaking world from Argentina, and Mexico, to Colombia, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Through music, carols, and dance, Navidad Flamenca highlights these traditions all united by a single language and reflects the influences of the Spanish culture throughout the Americas.
Free admission
Location: Lower Gallery
Celebrate the holidays with winter festivities at the Bronx Museum of the Arts! Join us for an afternoon filled with art activities for the entire family! Free for children 12 and under with parent(s) or guardian.
Free admission
Need to add a little pep in your step? Enjoy a night of dance at the Bronx Museum! Join us to see performances by contemporary dancer Christal Brown and Milteri Tucker & Bombazo Dance Co., a group that fuses the traditional Afro–Puerto Rican dance bomba with ballet and modern dance. The evening will end with a dance class, taught by Milteri Tucker, founder and artistic director of Bombazo Dance Co.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: Lower Gallery
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum and hear a reading of excerpts from the book Unveiling Motion and Emotion by Anabella Lenzu. Exploring the importance of dance, community, choreography and dance pedagogy, Argentinean Choreographer Anabella Lenzu celebrates 20 years of teaching dance through a book of her writings in Spanish and English.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
The Bronx Museum of the Arts is proud to present the exhibition Constructions, featuring an installation by André Komatsu and photographs by Mauro Restiffe. Constructions will be on view at Untitled, the international contemporary art fair in Miami, from December 3 to 7, 2014.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts proudly supports the 25th Anniversary of Day With(out) Art. This year, Visual AIDS comissioned seven videos from seven artists/collectives to be screened internationally on December 1, World AIDS Day.
Bronx Stories aims to challenge stereotypes about the Bronx and provide a platform for voices from the community while encouraging deeper engagement with the arts.
For this very special musical Bronx Stories hosted by poet and actress Caridad de la Luz, known as “La Bruja," we welcome Latin-Jazz musicians saxophonist Jorge Castro, bassist Alvaro Benavides, pianist Desmar Guevara, and percussionist Gabriel “Gabo” Lugo. The musicians will relate their performances to specific artworks around the gallery, weaving together aural stories about the Bronx.
Free admission and cocktails provided by Rums of Puerto Rico
Location: 2nd floor North Wing and galleries
The Bronx Museum launches a holiday pop-up shop in collaboration with Puerto Rican fair trade retailer, Concalma The Store, featuring accessories, t-shirts, books, organic coffee, and home goods, as well as Concalma’s iconic handbags. Don’t miss the chance to purchase unique, fair trade gifts for your friends and family this holiday season!
Hey teens! Come play Minecraft and inhabit the world of the Hunger Games as you take part in this game jam where you will be a citizen of the Capitol or District 12. Play, negotiate, communicate, and collaborate with your team to keep your health and stay in the game.
The event is free but space is limited, so please RSVP here. For more information, contact Global Kids Inc. at hungercraft@globalkids.org or call (212) 226-0130.
Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts Media Lab
Manuel Valera’s Cuban Express with Sofia Rei
Manuel Valera, Grammy-nominated composer and jazz pianist known for his distinctive Havana sound, is joined by the charismatic Argentinian singer-songwriter Sofía Rei. The program includes Martí en Nueva York, an eight-part song cycle composed by Valera and based on the poems of Cuban writer José Martí. Produced in collaboration with Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concerts.
Location: Lower Gallery
Kick off the holiday season with a trip on The Bronx Trolley and a free coquito tasting. As part of the 12th Annual Coquito Masters competition, contestants bring in their version of coquito, a traditional Puerto Rican holiday drink reminiscent of eggnog, and you become the judge to see who goes on to the New York finals! Presented by the Bronx Museum’s Community Advisory Council and International Coquito Tasting Federation.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Join us at the Museum's Fall Benefit for a unique opportunity to tour private art collections at five stunning homes.
A light breakfast will kick off the day, followed by a walking tour to the collections of some of Greenwich Village and NoHo’s most renowned art collectors. The collection hosts, who will be welcoming and guiding each tour, include: Frederieke Taylor, Joel and Zöe Dictrow, Greg Miller and Michael Wiener, Ann Hatch, and Hilary and Peter Hatch. The tour will be followed by an optional lunch and viewing of the collection of James Cottrell and Joe Lovett.
Are you interested in using social media for more than looking at cat videos and posting selfies? Join the Bronx Museum’s Social Media Manager Ron Kavanaugh as he reveals his tips for marketing yourself, your art work, and your business through new media platforms.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
The Bronx Latin American Art Biennial continues with a performance from multidisciplinary artist Vanessa Hernández Gracia. "Imaginative trajectory" explores the possibilities of using theoretical and historical references to establish dialogues
between the body, the object, the image, the site and the everyday. Her work concerns the body's fragility and ephemeral condition.
Free admission
The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invites guests 55 and older to the Fall Senior Luncheon. Join us for a delightful afternoon with free tours of the Museum’s exhibitions, live entertainment, and lunch with friends, all free of charge.
This event is free but space is very limited. All spots have been reserved as of October 4, 2014.
Free admission
Location: Lower Gallery
For Open House New York, a Bronx Museum Artist Educator will offer guests a short tour of the award-winning 16,000 sq. ft. North Wing designed by Arquitectonica; the Beyond the Supersquare exhibition, which explores the indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary art; and SuperPuesto, a temporary pavilion by Terence Gower commissioned by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in collaboration with the Andrew Freedman Home for Beyond the Supersquare.
Free admission
Bronx based artist Sean Paul Gallegos elevates the everyday act of shaving to an eyewitness account of an ethno-cultural transformation. His performance piece entitled "Razor's Edge" engages the audience through song and memory games that give a visual activation to the social perception of identity.
The performance will run approximately 25-30 minutes.
Free admission
Performance artist Juan Fernando Morales invites spectators to participate in his work “Exercise-reflection”. This piece relates to the ways in which human beings communicate, transmit, create, comprehend, and interpret information.
The performance will run approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
Free admission
What is the marketplace? Is it more than just a place to buy and sell goods? Explore the role of art in the marketplace by creating artwork inspired by Terence Gower’s Superpuesto, a temporary pavilion commissioned by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in collaboration with the Andrew Freedman Home for Beyond the Supersquare.
Free admission
Urban Evolution lives again! Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council member MiRi Park, aka b-girl Seoulsonyk, brings the ultimate loft performance party to the Bronx. Born 12 years ago in SoHo, Urban Evolution welcomes contemporary dancers, hoofers, b-girls, and New York Hustlers, and will showcase a variety of dance styles with something for everyone to enjoy. Produced in collaboration with the Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum and hear Lonnie Harrington discuss his book Both Sides of the Water: Essays on African-Native American Interactions. Situating cross-cultural interactions in their historical, social, and political contexts, Both Sides of the Water examines the relationship between indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere and people of African descent.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea and architect Galia Solomonoff meet with Beyond the Supersquare exhibition co-curator Holly Block for a lively discussion on art and architecture.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Join us for the opening reception of the 4th Bronx Latin-American Art Biennial! The afternoon will feature Double Helix Collective, comprised of performers Sabrina Lastman and Petronio Bendito. The Biennial is presented by the The Bronx Biennale of Latin American Art and sponsored by the Bronx Hispanic Festival (Festival Hispano del Bronx Inc.).
2nd floor North Wing
Free admission
Join us for the opening of Here I Am: Photographs by Lisa Leone.
The Bronx - Paris - Los Angeles - early 1990s - hip hop. This culture of music, dance, art and fashion is forever in its nascent and most authentic in Here I Am: Photographs by Lisa Leone. From Nas in the first studio recordings for what would become his iconic debut album Illmatic, to Snoop on the set of his first video, from ingénue Debi Mazar on the subway to Grandmaster Flash at a RockSteady reunion, Leone’s photographs open portals to the sounds, places and, most importantly, the people who forged and continue to influence the energy that is hip hop.
Free admission
For this edition of Bronx Stories, La Bruja will host an evening dedicated to stories about local residents’ experiences with community health issues. Welcoming storytellers, poets, and musicians, the event culminates with an open-mic portion during which audience members perform their own short stories, poems, or songs. Featuring: Aaron Spazecraft, Rhina Valentin, George Zavala, and hosted by Caridad de la Luz “La Bruja”
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Join us for the dynamic multimedia event Chillida: Combing the Wind and flamenco performance. Composed by Vocal Jazz Professor Judy Niemack, Chillida: Combing the Wind is a multimedia jazz concert celebrating the Peine del Viento (Wind Comb) sculpture by Basque artist Eduardo Chillida. The evening will close with Fiesta Flamenca, a flamenco performance by the Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana dance company.
2nd floor North Wing
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Arts in the Gardens presents "Bronx Screened." Curated by the Bronx Documentary Center, this film series will tell the story of the Bronx through different heart-felt documentaries about history, culture, politics and social impact. Attendees are welcome to bring a picnic and blanket. Movies will begin between 7 and 8PM at sunset. The event begins with a mixer and light refreshments.
Film: Sing Your Song
Location: NYRP’s Willis Avenue Community Garden, 401 East 143rd Street, Melrose
The Bronx Museum of the Arts cordially invites you to the 3rd Annual Senior Society Luncheon! Celebrate the summer with singer Gia Williams, The Jazzy Randolf Dancers, music by DJ Woody, lunch and free tours of the galleries.
The Senior Luncheon is now SOLD OUT! Please check back for future events.
Arts in the Gardens presents "Bronx Screened." Curated by the Bronx Documentary Center, this film series will tell the story of the Bronx through different heart-felt documentaries about history, culture, politics and social impact. Attendees are welcome to bring a picnic and blanket. Movies will begin between 7 and 8PM at sunset. The event begins with a mixer and light refreshments.
Location: NYRP’s Target Bronx Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Road, Highbridge
Film: Style Wars
Celebrate the Bronx's 100th anniversary with three pedestrian Sundays on the Grand Concourse between 165th and 167th Streets. The center lanes will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun, with free music, activities and programs hosted by art/cultural, civic, health organizations and artists.
Join us for a dynamic talk with artists from FLOW.14. Each year, The Randall’s Island Park Alliance, the Bronx Museum, and Made Event present FLOW, an annual summer art exhibition along the shoreline at Randall’s Island Park in New York City. Join us at the Bronx Museum to hear FLOW.14 artists Jessica Sanders, Rob Raphael, Dean Monogenis, and Kant Smith discuss their work.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Celebrate the Bronx's 100th anniversary with three pedestrian Sundays on the Grand Concourse between 165th and 167th Streets. The center lanes will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun, with free music, activities and programs hosted by art/cultural, civic, health organizations and artists.
Bronx native Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead a tour of the Grand Concourse, the borough's major thoroughfare on which the Bronx Museum is located. While visiting key sites, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and discuss the health issues that have impacted its neighborhoods and communities.
Free admission
Location: Meet at 11am in the North Wing Lobby of the Bronx Museum
Hop off the The Bronx Trolley at The Bronx Museum and hear writer and photographer Yoav Litvin discuss his new book Outdoor Gallery - New York City, a book featuring works created by 46 of the most prolific artists working on the streets of New York City. Yoav Litvin will be joined by Alice Mizrachi, teacher, artist and contributor to Outdoor Gallery.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Celebrate the Bronx's 100th anniversary with three pedestrian Sundays on the Grand Concourse between 165th and 167th Streets. The center lanes will be closed to cars and open to a world of fun, with free music, activities and programs hosted by art/cultural, civic, health organizations and artists.
Bronx Raised
Local artists use beat poetry, break-dancing, spoken word, and music to tell their stories in this hip hop-flavored series curated by Circa ’95. The night will progress with live performance by different local artists delivering rhythm and rhymes reflecting a Bronx state of mind. Featuring: DJ Kid Koi, The Bronx Boys, RDAC BX (Rebel Diaz Arts Collective), and Circa ’95
Free admission!
Location: Willis Avenue Community Garden, 401 East 143rd Street, Melrose
Join us for a free screening of the film Felix. Produced in collaboration with the African Film Festival. Special performance by The Buyu Ambroise's Quintet. Music by DJ Asho.
Because of rain the event will be held at THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York 10456
Free admission
A poetry reading, storytelling, and film screening explores the Bronx through the stories of the boxers who are indelibly linked to the borough. Fighters Joshua Clottey, Iran Barkley, Luis Resto, Aaron Davis, and Louis del Valle will share their relationship to the borough through the perspective of their boxing practice. Poet Gabriele Tinti will present his epic songs about boxing and present a screening of a poetry film by Michele Civetta of Quintessence Film. Organized by Gabriele Tinti and Joe de Guardia.
Free admission
Local artists use beat poetry, break-dancing, spoken word, and music to tell their stories in this hip hop-flavored series curated by Circa ’95. The night will progress with live performance by different local artists delivering rhythm and rhymes reflecting a Bronx state of mind. Featuring: DJ Enygma, Division X, Flaco Navaja, and Circa ‘95
Free admission
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Highbridge
Experience the Bronx in a new way as Art Jones combines projected images and sounds to tell different stories from each neighborhood. Performances are appropriate for all ages.
Free admission
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Highbridge
**This performance will follow the Bronx Raised Series
Situated in neighborhoods that have historically been, and continue to be, home to many newcomers to New York, City Lore and The Bronx Museum of the Arts have come together to celebrate their immigrant communities with a special edition of Bronx Stories. Featuring:
Poet Annecy Baez, Storyteller Donna Bailey, Hip hop artist Intikana, and hosted by Comedian Bill Santiago.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Join us for a lively interview and Q&A with artist Shyu Ruey-Shiann, whose exhibition One Kind of Behavior is currently on view at the Bronx Museum. Presented by the Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Join us for the opening of SuperPuesto, the temporary pavilion by Terence Gower commissioned by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in collaboration with the Andrew Freedman Home. SuperPuesto was commissioned for Beyond the Supersquare, the first U.S. museum exhibition to examine the complicated legacies of modernist architecture in Latin America and the Caribbean through the perspectives of 30 contemporary artists.
Free admission
Location: Andrew Freedman Home Garden, 1125 Grand Concourse between 166th and McClellan Streets, Bronx
Join us for the opening of Sarah Sze: Triple Point (Planetarium). Triple Point (Planetarium) is one of the works created for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Sze’s work attempts to navigate and model the ceaseless proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life. Incorporating elements of painting, architecture, and installation within her sculpture, Sze investigates the value we place on objects and explores how objects ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
What's your favorite building in the Bronx? Create your own artwork inspired by Bronx architecture and the Museum’s current exhibitions Beyond the Supersquare and Shyu Ruey-Shiann: One Kind of Behavior. Enjoy an afternoon filled with art-making activities for the family, with special guest workshops with artists Shyu Ruey-Shiann and James Rojas. Free for children 12 and under with parent(s) or guardian.
Free admission
Grab a blanket and join us for a free, outdoor screening of the film They Are We. Produced in collaboration with the African Film Festival and Asho Productions, as part of the UN Remembrance program of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Free admission
Location: Joyce Kilmer Park, Grand Concourse between E 161 Street and E 164 Street
Local artists use beat poetry, break-dancing, spoken word, and music to tell their stories in this hip hop-flavored series curated by Circa ’95. The night will progress with live performance by different local artists delivering rhythm and rhymes reflecting a Bronx state of mind. Featuring: DJ Polarity, The Bronx Boys, Bonafide, and Circa ’95
Free admission
Location: Target Bronx Community Garden, 1025 Anderson Avenue, Highbridge
Hop off the Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum. Gary Johnston will discuss his book Tears of Answered Prayer. Written over two years, Tears is the story of how love is lost when pride and ego get in the way.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Organized by artist Nicolau Vergueiro, join us for a sarau—a festive reception with music and video art screenings in the Brazilian modernist tradition. Modernist saraus were intimate and political, hosted in the homes of cultural luminaries to discuss topical social issues and Brazilian identity. The Bronx Museum sarau will showcase local cultural producers, highlighting dynamic aspects of their work that reflect contemporary international urban experience.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Join fellow Yankees fans for a special Benefit Ballgame in a luxury Skybox Suite at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, June 17th. Each ticket includes a pre-game, curator-led tour of the Yankee Stadium Museum, unlimited food, beverages and spirits, as well as the opportunity to enjoy the private suite and outdoor seats over first base.
All proceeds from this Benefit Ballgame will support the Bronx Museum's education programs.
Bronx-born resident Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the Office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead an exclusive tour of the Grand Concourse for Bronx Museum Members. While visiting key sites along this major thoroughfare, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and explain the development of its diverse neighborhoods and communities. For details on membership please click here.
Location: Meet at 11am in the North Wing Lobby of the Bronx Museum
Join us for an in-depth look at the phenomenon of gentrification, as seen through changes in the largest Puerto Rican neighborhood in the United States: East Harlem. After a screening of El Barrio Tours: Gentrification in East Harlem, the floor will be opened for a discussion with a panel of special guests. Presented by the Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Boogie Down Rides will host a bike ride exploring the murals of Hunts Point and Concourse Village. Bring your own bicycle. For more details on the trip and to register click here.
Free event
Location: Meet at 11am in the North Wing Lobby of the Bronx Museum
For the first time ever, New York Restoration Project’s (NYRP) Bathgate Community Garden is open to the public! Join us for an afternoon of activities that include gardening, movement workshops, a physical comedy performance, a poetry workshop by E.J. McAdams, and much more. Learn how you can become a garden member.
Free admission!
Location: Bathgate Community Garden, 1818-1836 Bathgate Avenue, Tremont
Join us for the first Bronx StorySLAM! The Moth StorySLAMs are open-mic storytelling competitions open to anyone with a five-minute story to share on the night’s theme. Be sure to arrive at 7pm, because when the doors open, storyteller hopefuls put their names in The Moth “hat”. A half hour later, names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage. From the ten features stories a StorySLAM winner is chosen by judges selected from the audience. Come sign up to tell a story, or to just enjoy the show! Produced in collaboration with The Moth.
SOLD OUT! There are no more tickets available to this event.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at the Bronx Museum and hear poet and curator Yolanda Rodriguez discuss her book Alma Derramada/Spilled Soul, which is a limited edition, handmade book of bilingual poetry, inspired by Rodriguez’ experiences of love, yearning, and loss after her migration from Puerto Rico to New York City.
Free admission
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. During the tour, visitors will be engaged through inquiry-based methodologies to participate in active discussions about art. Free tours and snacks for seniors will be available between 11am and 2pm.
Need a ride? Thanks to the generosity of High Class Limo & Car Services we are able to offer FREE roundtrip transportation to the Museum for Senior Thursdays! To make arrangements please contact Lauren or call 718-681-6000, ext.131.
Free refreshments provided.
Location: North Wing Lobby
Senior Programs are made possible through The Malka Fund and The David Rockefeller Fund.
Join us for an interview and Q & A with artist Nina Talbot on her exhibition Veterans, a series of paintings currently on view at the Bronx Museum. The talk will be hosted by collaborator Sophie Rand, whose narratives accompany the paintings. Several of the veterans depicted in the art works will also join in the conversation.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. During the tour, visitors will be engaged through inquiry-based methodologies to participate in active discussions about art. Free tours and snacks for seniors will be available between 11am and 2pm.
Need a ride? Thanks to the generosity of High Class Limo & Car Services we are able to offer FREE roundtrip transportation to the Museum for Senior Thursdays! To make arrangements please contact Lauren or call 718-681-6000, ext.131.
Free refreshments provided.
Location: North Wing Lobby
Senior Programs are made possible through The Malka Fund and The David Rockefeller Fund.
Location: CITY LORE, 56 East First Street, New York, NY 10003
City Lore and the Bronx Museum of the Arts will come together to celebrate their neighborhood immigrant and migrant communities with a special version of Bronx Stories. City Lore will present the first of a two-part collaborative series that hosts storytellers, poets, and dancers performing works inspired by their im(migrant) experiences and works of art on view.
The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) will host its fifth annual Art Museum Day on Sunday, May 18. The Bronx Museum of the Arts is celebrating by offering 20% off memberships at all levels during the period of May 18 through 24. Members receive VIP seating at select events, 20% off at the Museum Store, invitations to exclusive exhibition tours and much more! Members who join on May 18th will also receive a complimentary Bronx Museum tote bag. For details on membership click here.
This free public event will offer a range of interactions with the pieces and the artists, and a Latin music dance performance by children in RIPA's Musical Arts Program. For more information visit flowartnyc.org
Free admission
Location: Randall's Island
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. During the tour, visitors will be engaged through inquiry-based methodologies to participate in active discussions about art. Free tours and snacks for seniors will be available between 11am and 2pm.
Need a ride? Thanks to the generosity of High Class Limo & Car Services we are able to offer FREE roundtrip transportation to the Museum for Senior Thursdays! To make arrangements please contact Lauren or call 718-681-6000, ext.131.
Free refreshments provided.
Location: North Wing Lobby
Senior Programs are made possible through The Malka Fund and The David Rockefeller Fund.
Artist James Rojas will lead a model-building workshop, complete with on-site interactive models to help visitors engage in the planning and design process. Participants will be able to translate conceptual urban planning ideas into physical forms, and learn about the value of planning and design in shaping how we live.
Free admission
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. During the tour, visitors will be engaged through inquiry-based methodologies to participate in active discussions about art. Free tours and snacks for seniors will be available between 11am and 2pm.
Free refreshments provided.
Location: North Wing Lobby
Senior Programs are made possible through The Malka Fund and The David Rockefeller Fund.
Hop off The Bronx Trolley at The Bronx Museum and hear Raquel Cepeda discuss her book Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina. Equal parts memoir about Cepeda’s coming of age in New York City and Santo Domingo, and detective story chronicling her year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry, the book also looks at what it means to be Latina today. The paperback is out now wherever books are sold. Visit Raquel Cepeda's website at http://www.djalirancher.com.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Don Savelson, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to attend the opening of our spring/summer season.
Free admission
If you're driving today please click here to check the Five Boro Bike Tour route street closings.
Bronx-born resident Sam Goodman, an urban planner in the office of the Bronx Borough President, will lead an exciting tour of the Grand Concourse. While visiting key sites along this major thoroughfare, Goodman will provide a brief history of the Grand Concourse and explain the development of its diverse neighborhoods and communities. Produced as a part of Jane’s Walk. Visit janeswalk.org for more details.
Free event
Location: Meet at 12pm in the North Wing Lobby of the Bronx Museum
In honor of Senior Citizens Month, the Bronx Museum is offering FREE guided tours for seniors every Thursday in May. During the tour, visitors will be engaged through inquiry-based methodologies to participate in active discussions about art. Free tours and snacks for seniors will be available between 11am and 2pm.
Free refreshments provided.
Location: North Wing Lobby
Senior Programs are made possible through The Malka Fund and The David Rockefeller Fund.
Join us for our next program in the popular Back in the Bronx series featuring Academy Award-nominated actor and comedian Robert Klein. Klein will share stories and anecdotes about his life and the Bronx. Lunch by David Greco’s Arthur Avenue Caterers is included with your ticket purchase.
Advanced ticketing is now closed. A limited number of tickets will be available for purchase at the door.
Portadores is a collaborative project between artist Almudena Lobera and architect Isabel Martínez Abascal, exploring the medium of living bodies. The project consists of drawings by Almudena Lobera that are shown and tattooed onto the skin of volunteers by Isabel Martínez Abascal, and then are destroyed so that the only remaining and existing works are those on the skin. The execution of the dibuajes (drawings-tattoos) requires the collaboration of the viewer, who becomes an integral part of the work. This project aims to call into question the material form of the artwork and to explore social and relational notions.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts will host the performance of Portadores, together with an artist talk and videos from previous presentations.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the borough with us at the museum this Spring. Enjoy an afternoon filled with art-making activities for the family. Free for children 12 and under with parent(s) or guardian.
Free admission
Join us for a special edition of Bronx Lab in conjunction with a tree giveaway sponsored by New York Restoration Project. Visit the Museum to pick up a free tree, exchange seasonal recipes, and learn more about local community gardens and environmental organizations.
Free admission
Hop off the Bronx Council on the Arts’ Bronx Culture Trolley at The Bronx Museum and hear Authored by artist/architect Craig Shillitto and curator Elizabeth M. Grady discuss their artist book-cum-cookbook Ten Dinners in Havana. Ten Dinners in Havana is a richly textured documentation of Proyecto Paladar featuring twenty recipes cooked by paired chefs in Havana, half from American chefs and half from Cuban chefs. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photographs of the city of Havana, its urban farms, organic agriculture, vibrant markets, and lively streets, it portrays the chefs and diners in action.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Location: North Wing Lobby
Kicking off the 15th Annual Havana Film Festival New York, The Bronx Museum will host a screening of Los 100 sones de Cuba/The 100 Cuban Sones, followed by a special performance by Yunior Terry y Son de Altura. Music by DJ ASHO. Winner of a Latin Grammy, Los 100 sones de Cuba/The 100 Cuban Sones follows the popularity and dissemination of the son musical tradition throughout Cuba. Produced in collaboration with Asho Productions and the Havana Film Festival New York.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Inspired by The Bronx Museum of Art's current exhibition Paulo Bruscky: Art is Our Last Hope, the next Bronx Lab will be a two-part workshop beginning at the Museum and ending at the Bronx General Post Office.
Free admission
Join us for a screening of the newly-restored Style Wars: The Original Hip Hop Documentary, the filmic record of a golden age of youthful creativity that exploded into the world from a city in crisis. Introduced by producer Henry Chalfant and artist Jane Dickson. The screening will be proceeded by Dickson's short film City Maze.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Hop off the Bronx Council on the Arts’ Bronx Culture Trolley at The Bronx Museum and hear award winning writer and photojournalist Michael Kamber discuss his book Photojournalists on War. With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news photographers, Photojournalists on War presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East.
Free admission and suggested donation bar
Location: North Wing Lobby
Join The Bronx Museum of the Arts for our annual benefit and auction, Greetings from the Bronx, on Monday, March 3, 2014 at Conrad New York in Lower Manhattan.
Celebrate among friends, bid on covetable artworks, and dine on food from Union Square Events while you support the Bronx Museum. All proceeds enable the Museum's to continue offering free public programs, free admission, internationally recognized exhibitions, professional services to artists, and arts education programs reaching over 10,000 Bronx youth each year.
Benefit will take place on March 3, rain or shine (or snow).
Join your fellow Bronxites for the Bronx Museum’s second in the series of “Back in the Bronx” programs featuring writer Arlene Alda interviewed by her husband, the actor Alan Alda. Arlene will share personal stories and anecdotes about growing up in the borough and also preview excerpts from her upcoming book “Just Kids from the Bronx.” Lunch will be provided for all attendees by David Greco’s Arthur Avenue Caterers.
The event is sold out! Please check out bronxmuseum.org often for upcoming events.
Bronx Museum featured artist Paulo Bruscky creates art in a variety of media, from drawing to maps to Xerox to found objects. Explore Bruscky's creative process in this hands-on evening workshop. After touring Paulo Bruscky: Art Is Our Last Hope with a Bronx Museum teaching artist, participants will create their own urban-inspired works of art in using materials and techniques similar to Bruscky's. Projects will include: photo booth, Xerox portraits, portraiture composition, and postcard design.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Having an Impact will feature esteemed New York City cultural leaders who will examine the issues faced by institutions working to make their voices heard locally and across the city.
Panelists include Holly Block, Executive Director, The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Tom Finkelpearl, Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art; Linda Lees, Founder, Creative Cities International and the Vitality Index; and Stephanie Roach, Director, The FLAG Art Foundation. The panel will be moderated by Fran Kaufman, Kaufman Vardy Projects (kv-projects.com). A brief reception precedes the panel discussion.
Free admission and bar (donations suggested)
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with us at the museum. Enjoy an afternoon filled with art-making activities for the family. Free for children 12 and under with parent(s) or guardian. Pre-registration online is encouraged.
Celebre el Día de San Valentín con nosotros en el museo. Disfrute de una tarde llena de actividades artísticas para la familia. Gratis para niños menores de 12 años que vayan acompañados por un adulto.
Admission: Free
Entrada: Gratuita
POSTPONED!
Hop off the Bronx Council on the Arts’ Bronx Culture Trolley at The Bronx Museum and hear Lonnie Harrington discuss his book Both Sides of the Water: Essays on African-Native American Interactions. Both Sides of the Water examines specific events regarding the relationship between groups of indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere and people of African descent.
Free Admission and suggested donation bar
Location: North Wing Lobby
Join us for a lively interview and Q & A with photographer Wayne Lawrence, whose exhibition Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera is currently on view at the Bronx Museum. Hosted by Publisher of Mosaic Literary Magazine, Ron Kavanaugh.
Free Admission and suggested donation bar
Celebrate this popular Chinese holiday with costumed folk dances, authentic music, and Lion Dance. For the first time, the New York Chinese Cultural Center brings its signature program to Bronx audiences. Youth will learn traditional techniques of paper cutting and calligraphy with hands-on art activities.
Free Admission and suggested donation bar
On the occasion of his retrospective exhibition at the Bronx Museum, the sculptor Tony Feher will speak about his life and work. Join us for the talk and moderated Q & A led by Bronx Museum curator Lia Zaaloff.
Free Admission and suggested donation bar
The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Community Advisory Council invites you to celebrate the holidays at the Museum. Step aside toy soldiers—the bullfighters have arrived! Away sugar plum fairies…give them flamenco dancers! The story may seem familiar, but the cast of characters is refreshingly new. A large family gathers to eat and drink, to dance and sing, to celebrate Christmas—dancers sing and singers dance, recalling the folkloric fiesta of Flamenco, rarely seen today by theater audiences.
Free admission
Location: Lower Gallery
An afternoon filled with art-making activities and gallery tours for families and kids.
Pre-registration is encouraged. To register CLICK HERE.
Free admission
Location: Throughout Museum
How would you design a map of the Bronx? Join us for a lively discussion of the Bronx Grand Concourse: A Cultural Map, the new interactive website that takes viewers on a multitude of adventures around the literary and creative history of the borough. Poet, performer, and professor Urayoán Noel, anthropologist / independent curator Libertad Guerra, Executive Director of the Bronx Children's Museum Carla Precht and Olga Luz Tirado, Executive Director of the Bronx Tourism Council, will lead a conversation with the public on the ways in which maps help shape, build, and reflect a community....
Visit the site now at mappingbronxstories.com/.
Free admission
Location: North Wing Lobby
Hop off the BCA’s Bronx Culture Trolley at The Bronx Museum and hear Bronx authors Mark Naison and Melissa Castillo-Garsow discuss their latest book Pure Bronx. FREE guided tours of the galleries.
Free admission
Location: North Wing Lobby
Join us for a Coquito Masters Qualifying event and a live painting competition. Presented by the Bronx Museum’s Community Advisory Council and Coquito Masters International. Free admission! Hosted by Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council member and artist, the painting competition will feature artists Ariel Colon, Dilcia Gonzalez-Queiro, and Nicholai Khan.
FREE!
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Hop off the BCA’s Bronx Culture Trolley at BxMA and hear Bronx author Rev. Pura M. De Jesus-Coniglio discuss her recent book The Bronx: Exposing its True DNA & Breaking the Stigma. FREE guided tours of the galleries.
Location: North Wing Gallery
In partnership with Performa 13, the only biennial dedicated to new visual art performance, the Bronx Museum will present a live performance piece linked to the exhibition Paulo Bruscky: Art Is Our Last Hope. From November 1 to 24, 2013, Performa 13 will transform New York City into an international platform celebrating live art.
Join the Bronx Museum for a Fall Benefit featuring a walking tour of private, rarely-seen art collections at five stunning homes. Enjoy light breakfast at the home of artist Grimanesa Amoros and hear from some of TriBeCa's most renowned art collectors about their artworks on view. Hosts include Susan and Michael Hort, Noel Kirnon and Michael Paley, Ian and Serge Krawiecki Gazes, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Carole Server and Oliver Frankel. RSVP Required; $250 Non-Members / $225 Members.
Join us for the uplifting beat of Matuto, presented in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concerts. Drawing on Brazilian folk forms like forró, maracatu, and coco, as well as American bluegrass, spirituals, and swampy Louisiana jams, Matuto’s unique and energetic sound celebrates diverse musical cultures. This event will also feature guided tours of the galleries from 6pm to 8pm, an art-making workshop for kids throughout the event, and a free live art performance by Project YEAH (Young Empowered Artists 4 Humanity) youth entitled "Live Art Mandala Madness"!
On Sunday, October 27th join performance artist Carmen Julia Hernandez for the second edition of Bronx Lab by participating in the performance “Global Exchange Day” Hernandez has surveyed the languages that small business owners and residents speak in the immediate community of The Bronx Museum of the Arts and will stage a performance where all Bronxites are welcome to participate. The workshop will begin with a brief tour of the exhibition Paulo Bruscky – Art is Our Last Hope and a prop-making workshop for the performance. Participants will learn and exchange short vocabulary lists in different languages and will be encouraged to have a short verbal exchange with a business owner or resident in the community who speaks the language they just learned. In addition, participants will help place 'Language Art Cards' in the neighborhood and will sit in designated 'Language Exchange Circles’ promoting learning and exchange.
Free Admission!
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairperson Don Savelson, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to attend our Fall/Winter season Open House.
If you are a “Bronxite” born and raised in the Bronx but haven’t returned in decades, the Bronx Museum of the Arts is welcoming you back to the borough with a series of special programs entitled Back in the Bronx. The series kicks off Saturday, October 19 from noon to 3pm and features actor Chazz Palminteri, who will be telling personal stories and anecdotes about growing up in the borough.
Exhibition Launch Party and Book Signing for Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera
Join us for a celebration of the Wayne Lawrence: Orchard Beach exhibition, on view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts from October 13, 2013 to February 16, 2014, and book signing of Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera with photographer Wayne Lawrence. Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera is published by Prestel.
Join us for an evening of storytelling, poetry, and music inspired by the Bronx and works of art on view. Make your voice heard in our open mic. Featuring Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Candece Tarpley, and Charles Whalen. Produced in collaboration with storyteller, poet and Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council member Bobby Gonzalez. Free admission!
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing and Galleries
A breaking and DJ/turntablist event with Host Chief 69 and DJ Enygma that pays homage to breaking pioneers such as The Bronx Boys Rocking Crew, Rock Steady Crew, and DJ Grandmaster Flash—inventor of many of the earliest hip hop innovations including backspin and punch phrasing. Free and for all ages.
Location: Lower Gallery
Free for Children 12 & under with parent(s) or guardian
Learn cool facts about famous people who lived along and off the Grand Concourse during an afternoon of art and food-making activities inspired by the Bronx Culture Map.
Join us for artist talks and performances while enjoying drinks in the company of your neighbors. Free admission!
Featuring artist collective BroLab, who designed a commissioned interactive hub currently installed in the Bronx Museum’s lobby. Free admission!
Hop off the Bronx Council on the Arts’ Bronx Culture Trolley at The Bronx Museum and hear Bronx author Dr. Vijay Giles discuss her books Unusual L.e.m.o.n.a.d.e. and Unusual L.e.m.o.n.a.d.e. Too!. Free guided tours of the galleries.
Join us for the launch of Bronx Lab! Celebrate public art in the Bronx with a free guided walking tour of street art along the Grand Concourse followed by a graffiti-inspired art activity with Lady K Fever.
Location: Meet in the North Wing Lobby
1040 Lounge — Celebrating and promoting the arts in the Bronx
Join us for artist talks and performances while enjoying drinks in the company of your neighbors. Free admission!
Featuring artists Linda Cunningham and Todd Heisler. Presented by the Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council.
Celebrate Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial with video screenings and performances by AIM artists. Bronx Calling features work by emerging artists from the New York City area who participated in The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program in 2012 and 2013.
Location: 2nd floor North Wing
Join us for an evening of storytelling, poetry, and music inspired by art and the Bronx. Featured speakers will be Robin Bady, Sam Goodman, Brittany Maldonado and Jose Ortiz, aka Dr. Drum. Make your voice heard in our open mic. Produced in collaboration with the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Location: Throughout the Museum
Celebrating and promoting the arts in the Bronx
Join us for drinks in the company of your neighbors to enjoy artist talks and performances. Featuring AIM artists Njideka Akunyili and Katie Cercone. Presented by the Bronx Museum Community Advisory Council.
Hop off the BCA’s Bronx Culture Trolley at BxMA and hear Bronx author Santos “Taino” Santiago discuss his first book Bedtime Stories. Free guided tours of our exhibitions.
Location: 2nd Floor North Wing
Ring in the new school year with us at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Join us for an afternoon filled with art and food making activities inspired by the Museum's exhibitions. Free School Supplies will be provided (First come first serve).
Summer Outdoor Film Screening in Collaboration with the African Film Festival
Grab a blanket and join us for a free, outdoor screening of the films Soul Boy and Lezare Produced in collaboration with the African Film Festival. Performance by Speaking in Rhythms’ Project Syncopated New York and K5! Azonto. Music by DJ Asho.
LOCATION: Joyce Kilmer Park, Grand Concourse between E. 161 St and E. 164 St.
RAIN LOCATION: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2nd floor North Wing
AIM artists discuss their ideas and creative process. Artists presenting are Gisela Insuaste, Ellie Irons, Daniel Lichtman, Eto Otitigbe, and Freya Powell. LOCATION: 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery between 51st and 52nd Streets, Midtown
AIM artists discuss the ideas and processes behind their art-making practice. For more information visit www.wavehill.org
LOCATION: Wave Hill, Glyndor Gallery
Pictured: José Antonio Ojeda, Guilded Man, 2013, Brass, copper, nickel silver, 67 x 32 in. Courtesy of the artist.
AIM artists discuss their ideas and creative process. Artists presenting are Onyedika Chuke, Seldon Yuan, Jeni Wightman, Sonia Louise Davis, Rob Raphael, and Nobutaka Aozaki. LOCATION: 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery between 51st and 52nd Streets, Midtown
Share your story! Bring 3 to 5 photos and arrive at 3:00pm to meet with the producers; chosen participants will be invited to share their stories related to their images in the program!
LOCATION: 2nd floor North Wing
Join us for drinks in the company of your neighbors to enjoy artist talks and performances. Featuring AIM artists JASON PETERS, PACIFICO SILANO, and
DIANA SHPUNGIN. Presented by The Bronx Museum of the Arts' Community Advisory Council.
LOCATION: 2nd Floor North Wing
Enjoy a bike ride between AIM exhibition sites, including guided tours of the exhibitions at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Registration required at www.wavehill.org
FREE admission!
LOCATION: Meet at Wave Hill at 10am, at the Front Gate
AIM artists discuss their ideas and creative process.
LOCATION: 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery between 51st and 52nd Streets, Midtown
Artists speaking will be: Marta Jovanović, Ka-Man Tse, Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Steffani Jemison, Erick Sanchez
1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 8 am - 6 pm.
Grab a blanket and join us for a free, outdoor screening of the film Suite Habana. Produced in collaboration with the African Film Festival. Music by DJ David Medina and The Cimarron Project.
LOCATION: Joyce Kilmer Park, Grand Concourse between E. 161 St and E. 164 St
RAIN LOCATION: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2nd floor North Wing
Hop off the BCA’s Bronx Culture Trolley at BxMA and hear Bronx author Annie Rachelle Lanzilotto discuss her latest book Schistsong. Free guided tours of our exhibitions.
LOCATION: 2nd Floor North Wing
Enjoy a bike ride between AIM exhibition sites, including a guided tour of the AIM exhibition at Wave Hill. Registration required at www.wavehill.org
FREE admission!
LOCATION: Meet at The Bronx Museum of the Arts at 10am, in the North Wing Lobby
The Board of Trustees of The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chairman R. Douglass Rice, and Executive Director Holly Block cordially invite you to attend our summer season Open House on Sunday, June 23, 2013 from 2pm to 5pm.
