The Bronx Museum News

Beginning June 22, The Bronx Museum will showcase the work of Artists in the Marketplace participants with Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial, on view at The Bronx Museum, Wave Hill, and 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery. Organized by Lia Zaaloff (Bronx Museum Curator), Elizabeth M. Grady (Guest Curator), and Gabriel de Guzman…

Beginning February 9, 2012 The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present Juan Downey: The Invisible Architect, the first U.S. survey of the pioneering video artist Juan Downey. On view through May 20, 2012, the exhibition brings together more than 100 works from Downey’s expansive career, from his early experimental work with art and technology…

Beginning September 29, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, with the support of the Institut Ramon Llull, will present a collection of video works and photography by multi-disciplinary media artist Antoni Muntadas in the exhibition MUNTADAS: INFORMATION>>SPACE>>CONTROL. On view through January 15, 2012, the exhibition spans more than thirty years of Muntadas’ career and includes…

The Bronx Museum of the Art presents Urban Archives: Emilio Sanchez in the Bronx, June 26, 2011, through September 5, 2011. The exhibition displays a group of oil on canvas and works on paper by Emilio Sanchez depicting commercialbuildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With their colorful palette and rigorous architectural…

For three decades, the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program has helped to demystify the often opaque professional practices of the art world for artists at the beginning of their careers and has introduced the work of these emerging artists to the public. On June 26, the Bronx Museum will…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, an exhibition highlighting Elizabeth Catlett’s role as a pioneering African American female artist and her relationship to later generations of contemporary artists. On view from January 27 through May 29, 2011, the exhibition will explore her ground-breaking career…

During the span of twelve years, a series of events, later hailed as the Civil Rights Movement, would forever change the social and political course of America. From March 28 – July 11, 2010, The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present two sweeping exhibitions that chronicle both these pivotal moments in the nation’s history…

AN ECO-PUMP CLAMPED TO THE MAJOR DEEGAN TAKES PRIZE IN INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION FOR FUTURE OF GRAND CONCOURSE IN THE BRONX The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space have named Dongsei Kim and Jamieson Fajardo, students at Columbia University, winners of Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100, aninternational ideas…

Acconci Studio will recast the light-filled lobby of The Bronx Museum of the Arts with a large-scale installation exploring how the body inhabits and activates public space. Visible from the street through the contemporary landmark’s origami-like façade of glass and metal, Acconci Studio Lobby goes on view for a year beginning Sunday, June 21, 2009.…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts has commissioned the award winning photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao to range throughout the streets, parks, and alleys surrounding the Grand Concourse and create a photographic portrait of the borough of the Bronx as it is today—vital, teeming, and changing. The photographic commission came as part of the Museum’s year-long…

From June 21 to September 13, 2009, The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents Living and Dreaming, the 29th edition of its milestone Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) exhibition series. The exhibition features a range of works by 36 artists from New York City and the environs who have completed the most recent of the…

Along a four-and-a-half-mile stretch of the Grand Concourse—the historic boulevard connecting Manhattan to the parks of the north Bronx—a most unusual “museum without walls” opens Sunday, June 21, 2009, and remains on view 24 hours a day, seven days a week until October 12, 2009 as part of the centennial celebration of the “Park Avenue…