David Thomson and Jonathan Gonzalez will perform solos as part of summer season open house at Bronx Museum
Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Wednesday, July 13, free, 6:00 – 8:00
718-681-6000
www.bronxmuseum.org
The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ annual summer open house takes place on July 13 at 6:00, celebrating not only the season but the opening of three new exhibitions. At 6:30, BAX/Dancing While Black Fellow Jonathan Gonzalez will perform Arthur Aviles’s In the Garden of Mi Amigo El id in the galleries, followed at 7:15 by a solo work by artist-choreographer and Bronx native David Thomson in the North Wing on the second floor. Attendees will also get a sneak peek at the new exhibitions “Art AIDS America,” “CAZA: Rochele Gomez, Margaret Lee, Alejandra Seeber,” and “En Foco Presents Mask: Photographs by Frank Gimpaya,” with member tours of the first at 5:00 and the third at 5:30. In addition, the Keith Haring Foundation – Project Street Beat Mobile Medical Unit of Planned Parenthood of New York City will be on hand. (On Saturday, July 16, at 3:00, Robb Hernández, PhD, and Joey Terrill will lead a free public tour of “Art AIDS in America” sponsored by AIDS Center of Queens County and AIDS Healthcare Foundation.)