Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección

Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección
13 June 2025
{{I:Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección}} is El Museo del Barrio’s is a presentation of permanent collection in over two decades. The exhibition will present approximately 500 artworks, including new acquisitions and artist commissions, through rotating displays over the course of one year. Something Beautiful cuts across traditional chronological, geographic, and media-specific categories, reconsidering the Collection through new interdisciplinary approaches rooted in El Museo del Barrio’s foundational history and legacy. This forward-thinking model focuses on the contribution of Amerindian, African, and European cultures as the basis of visual production in the Americas and the Caribbean. Organized by Rodrigo Moura, Chief Curator; Susanna V. Temkin, Curator; and Lee Sessions, Permanent Collection Associate Curator.
The first rotation of{{I: Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección }}is organized in eight sections plus seven artist spotlights. Themes and motifs reappear across sections to create a larger conversation throughout the exhibition.
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