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MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL 2014

Uptown institutions stay open late and open their doors for free for Museum Mile Festival

Multiple locations on Fifth Ave. between 82nd & 105th Sts.
Tuesday, June 10, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission: free
www.museummilefestival.org

There’s really only one main problem with the annual Museum Mile Festival: It’s too short. On Tuesday, June 10, from 6:00 to 9:00, nine uptown art and cultural institutions will open their doors for free and fill Fifth Ave. between 82nd & 104th Sts. with family-friendly activities for the thirty-fifth year. There will be live outdoor performances by the Asphalt Orchestra, Sammie & Trudie’s Imagination Playhouse, Silly Billy the Very Funny Clown, Avenida B, Josh the Juggler, Bill Ferguson, and Magic Brian, in addition to face painting, art workshops, chalk drawing, the Museum of Motherhood, and more. The participating museums (with at least one of their current shows listed here) are El Museo del Barrio (“Presencia: Works from El Museo’s Permanent Collection”), the Museum of the City of New York (“Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile,” “In a World of Their Own: Coney Island Photographs by Aaron Rose”), the Jewish Museum (“Other Primary Structures,” “Mel Bochner: Strong Language”), the National Academy (“The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition”), the Guggenheim (“Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe”), the Neue Galerie (“Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937”), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (“Charles James: Beyond Fashion,” “Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy”), along with the Africa Center / Museum (which is building a new home) and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (which is undergoing a major renovation). Don’t try to do too much, because it can get rather crowded; just pick one or two exhibitions in one or two museums and enjoy.

SUPER SÁBADO: MAD ABOUT LIBROS

Angélica Negrón will be telling musical stories at free Super Sabado at El Museo del Barrio

Angélica Negrón will be telling musical stories at El Museo del Barrio for free Super Sabado celebration of books

FREE THIRD SATURDAYS
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th St.
Saturday, April 19, free, 12 noon – 5:30 pm
212-831-7272
www.elmuseo.org

For the April edition of its free Super Sabado program, El Museo del Barrio celebrates the written word with “Mad About Libros.” From 12 noon to 3:00 on April 19, you can head over to the educational ArteXplorers Family Corner in the lobby or take part in a Manos a la Obra workshop where you can make your favorite book character. At noon and 2:00, in conjunction with Colorin Colorado, singer and actress Flor Bromley will be in the café, telling the stories of Librito and Juan Bobo and the Magic Book; composer and multi-instrumentalist Angélica Negrón will share the participatory musical tale of Amigos at 1:00 and 3:00. From noon to 4:00, there will be a book fair outside the museum. And at 4:30, Roger Cabán of Poetas con Café will host poetry readings by Myrna Nieves, Jesus Papoleto Meléndez, and others. In addition, you can check out the special exhibition “Museum Starter Kit: Open with Care” as well as “Presencia: Works from El Museo’s Permanent Collection,” featuring pieces by Luis Mendez, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Oscar Muñoz, Benvenuto Chavajay, Christian Cravo, Roberto Juárez, Fernando Salicrup, Rafael Tufiño, and more.

MUSEUM DAY LIVE! 2013

Multiple venues
Saturday, September 28
Admission: free for two people with printed ticket
www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday

The ninth annual free museum day, sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, takes place on Saturday, September 28, with institutions all over the country opening their doors to people who have downloaded a free ticket for two from the above website. There’s only one ticket allowed per household/e-mail address, so be careful before filling out the online form; some of the museums are free anyway, either all the time or on Saturdays, while others might be between exhibits so there won’t be all that much to see. The participating venues in the five boroughs include the Asia Society Museum (“Iran Modern”), the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine (“Dog Bless You: The Photography of Mary Bloom”), the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (“Red Grooms’ New York City”), El Museo del Barrio (“La Bienal: Here Is Where We Jump!”), the Fraunces Tavern Museum (“Rating the Attic: A Crowdsourced Exhibit”), the Hispanic Society, Historic Richmond Town, the Jewish Museum (“Chagall: Love, War, and Exile”), the Morgan Library (“Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings”), the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, the Museum of American Finance (“The Fed at 100”), the Museum of Arts & Design (“Body & Soul: New International Ceramics”), the Museum of Chinese in America (“Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910s-40s”), the New York City Fire Museum, the Noble Maritime Collection (“Tides of 100 Years”), the Rubin Museum of Art (“Flip Side”), the Skyscraper Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (“Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes”), the Staten Island Museum (“They’re Baaack! Return of the Seventeen-Year Cicadas”), the Ukrainian Museum (“Out of Tradition: Contemporary Decorative and Applied Art”), the U.S. Lighthouse Tender LILAC (“Industrial Waters”), the Van Cortlandt House Museum, the Vilcek Foundation (“Brian Doan: hôme hôme home”), and the Waterfront Museum (“Pollywogs and Shellbacks: Marine Paintings by Frank Hanavan”). Of course, if you pair up with friends and relatives, you can get more tickets for different places.

MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL 2013

Museum Mile Festival attendees can get a sneak peek at El Museo del Barrio’s “La Bienal 2013: Here Is Where We Jump, which includes Edgar Serrano’s “A dios” (acrylic and latex on canvas, 2012 / photo courtesy of the artist)

Multiple locations on Fifth Ave. between 82nd & 105th Sts.
Tuesday, June 11, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
Admission: free
www.museummilefestival.org

Several uptown museums will be opening their doors for free as part of the thirty-fourth annual Museum Mile Festival, taking place Tuesday night, June 11, from 5:45 to 9:00. Fifth Ave. will be filled with live performers and family-friendly activities between 82nd & 104th Sts., including chalk drawing, face painting, Sammie & Tudie’s Imagination Playhouse, the Little Orchestra Society, Silly Billy the Very Funny Clown, Isle of Klezbos, Magic Brian, various DJs, and more. The participating museums (with at least one of their current shows listed here) include El Museo del Barrio (“La Bienal 2013: Here Is Where We Jump”), the Museum of the City of New York (“A Beautiful Way to Go”), the Jewish Museum (“Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh,” “Jack Goldstein x 10,000”), the National Academy (“Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel,” “Pat Steir: Blue River”), the Guggenheim (“New Harmony: Abstraction Between the Wars, 1919-1939”), the Neue Galerie (“Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907”), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (“Photography and the American Civil War,” “The Civil War and American Art”), along with the Goethe-Institut (which has moved downtown), the Museum for African Art (which is building a new home), and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (which is currently undergoing renovation). Don’t try to do too much, because it can get rather crowded; just pick one or two exhibitions in one or two museums and enjoy.

SUPER SÁBADO! ARTEXPLORERS!

Betsabee Romero, “Ayate con Perro (Ayate fabric with dog),” chromogenic print, 2005 (photo courtesy el Museo del Barrio)

FREE THIRD SATURDAYS
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th St.
Saturday, March 16, free, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
212-831-7272
www.elmuseo.org

El Museo del Barrio’s monthly free celebration of art, music, storytelling, food, and more takes visitors on a voyage of discovery on March 16 with “arteXplorers!,” a full day of special programs and activities dealing with exploration. The schedule includes the workshop “Manos a la Obra!,” in which kids hunt for animal images and then make their own superreal safari art; singer and storyteller Flor Bromley creating such tales as “Araña Mariposa,” based on Beatriz Concha’s Ochopatas y un cuento, and “Kitty,” based on Kevin Henkes’s Kitten’s First Full Moon; a Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert by Very Be Careful; and el Bazaar, with spring-cleaning discounts in el Café. In addition, galleries are open, featuring the temporary exhibit “Superreal: Alternative Realities in Photography and Video,” an examination of what is real, with video and photography by more than seventy artists, and “Presencia,” consisting of work from the permanent collection that deals with presence and absence.

MUSEUM DAY LIVE!

Multiple venues
Saturday, September 29
Admission: free for two people with printed ticket
www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday

The eighth annual free museum day, sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, takes place on Saturday, September 29, with institutions all over the country opening their doors to people who have downloaded a free ticket for two from the above website. There’s only one ticket allowed per household/e-mail address, so be careful before filling out the online form; some of the museums are free anyway, either all the time or on Saturdays, while others might be between exhibits so there won’t be all that much to see. The participating venues in the five boroughs include the American Folk Art Museum, the Asia Society Museum, the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, the Children’s Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Fraunces Tavern Museum, the Hispanic Society, Historic Richmond Town, the International Center of Photography, the Jewish Museum, the Morgan Library, the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, the Museum of American Finance, the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, the Museum of Arts & Design, the Museum of Chinese in America, the New York City Fire Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Noble Maritime Collection, the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, the Queens Historical Society, the Queens Museum of Art, the Skyscraper Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, the South Street Seaport Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Ukrainian Museum, and the Vilcek Foundation. Of course, if you pair up with friends and relatives, you can get more tickets for different places.

SUPER SÁBADO! EL MUSEO’S BLOCK PARTY

The Welfare Poets will perform at annual El Museo Block Party on Saturday

FREE THIRD SATURDAYS
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th St.
Saturday, July 21, free, 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
212-831-7272
www.elmuseo.org

El Museo del Barrio’s monthly free celebration of art, music, dance, and food heads outdoors on July 21 for a family-friendly summer block party on 104th St. Most of the special events take place in the late afternoon, with the Welfare Poets, domino tables, a pop-up photo booth, art workshops, A Lo Afro-Colombiano and KR3Ts dance classes, DJ EX spinning soulful tunes, and El Barrio’s Freshest 2012 breakdancing competition. The museum’s galleries are open as well, so you can beat the heat by going inside and checking out the exhibitions “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World” and “Voces y Visiones: Gran Caribe.”