The Bronx Museum News

Noted architects, urban planners, city officials, historians, writers, and artists will convene at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Grand Concourse and 165th Street, on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7 to discuss the history and future of the Bronx. Free and open to the public (with registration), the symposium, entitled Intersections: The Grand…

A visionary feat of 19th-century city planning, largely taken for granted by 21st-century New Yorkers, the Grand Concourse flows through the Bronx from Van Cortlandt Park at the top to East 138th Street at the south. Inspired by the Champs-Élysées in Paris and designed by Alsatian-born engineer Louis Risse, the famous thoroughfare was originally conceived…

Vanguard artists have long looked to the street for inspiration, subject matter, a stage, and even the raw materials of their art making. From September 14, 2008 to January 25, 2009, the Bronx Museum of the Arts examines this fascination in Street Art, Street Life: From the 1950s to Now. The far ranging exhibition, one…

On Friday, August 1, 2008 from 6:00 to 10:00pm, the Andrew Freedman Home in the South Bronx will serve as the backdrop for the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ FREE First Fridays! event “Africanísimo!” Organized in collaboration with the African Film Festival and Afrokinetic, the program will offer an exciting afternoon of outdoor film screenings…

In honor of Pride Month, The Bronx Museum of the Arts will host “Queerhood 2008: A Cultural Celebration of LGBT Pride in the Bronx” on Sunday, June 22, 2008 from 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Organized by Hector Canonge, director of CINEMAROSA and alum of the Museum’s acclaimed Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program, Queerhood…

How Soon Is Now? opening Sunday, June 1, 2008, features an array of work by 36 artists from throughout the metropolitan area, all of whom have participated in the most recent incarnation of Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging…

The Bronx Museum of the Arts announces the spring line-up of its new First Fridays! event series. Officially launched in September 2007, First Fridays! offers FREE film screenings, art performances, music and other special events the first Friday of every month. During the spring season, the series – reinforcing The Bronx Museum’s dedication to providing…

On Sunday, March 2, 2008, The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Teen Council class of 2007-08 will honor world renowned photographer Jamel Shabazz (New York) with an exhibition of the artist’s works, including photographs from the Museum’s permanent collection. Working in collaboration with Shabazz and the Bronx Museum’s assistant curator Erin Riley-Lopez, the Teen Council’s…

On Sunday, March 2, 2008, The Bronx Museum of the Arts will open Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art and Community. On view through August 4, the exhibition explores an important chapter in recent history when women artists, inspired by the 1970s Feminist Movement, worked collectively in new ways to engage communities and address social…