The Museum Mile Festival kicks off at El Museo del Barrio, which will host live music and dance as well as chalk drawing for kids and adults
Multiple locations on Fifth Ave. between 82nd & 105th Sts.
Tuesday, June 8, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission: free
www.museummilefestival.org
Once again nine of the city’s finest art institutions will open their doors for free for the thirty-second annual Museum Mile Festival, from 6:00 to 9:00 on Tuesday night, June 8. The participating museums (with one of their current shows listed here) include El Museo del Barrio (“Retro/Active: The Works of Rafael Ferrer”), the Museum of the City of New York (“Charles Addams’s New York”), the Jewish Museum (“South African Photographs: David Goldblatt”), the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (“National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?”) the National Academy (“Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art”), the Guggenheim (“Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance”), the Neue Galerie (“Otto Dix”), the Goethe-Institut (the institute has moved downtown but will be at the festival nonetheless), and the Met (“Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”). Fifth Ave. will also be closed to vehicular traffic and instead will be filled with art activities (chalk drawing, live model drawing), street performances (clowns, juggles, magicians), and live music and dance featuring P-STAR: the ABAKUÁ Afro-Latin Dance Company, Paul Labarbera and Rockbeat, Quarteto Rodriguez Cuban Jewish Allstars, and the Hayes Greenfield Jazz Duo. The Museum Mile Festival is a great way to check out some very cool institutions, especially those you might not be quite as familiar with.