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The first of JR’s Chronicles of New York City community murals is now up in Flatbush thanks to our friends at CaribBeing and Little Caribbean. See it on view at Kings Theater through the run of JR: Chronicles.

“Close-Lines is a reconstruction of the tendedero (clothes line) as a portrait of inherited and created family. Mining the structure from my grandmothers tendedero in Güines, the installation re-imagines the clothes-line as a site for care, commemoration, and resistance. Drawing an intersection with Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, Close-Lines traces the precariousness and vitality of Latine trans and queer life across intersecting borders, translations, and migrations.” —Alexis Ruiseco-Lombera

See this temporary photography installation by Cuban artist Alexis Ruiseco-Lombera, as part of the caribBEING House, in residence during Museum hours, through August 31.

Curious what that yellow shipping container is doing on our plaza? That’s the roving home base of our friends @caribbeing, and this August they’ll be stationed out front for their third annual, month-long residency. Inside the container you can find works by six emerging Caribbean artists which we’ll feature here throughout the month.

Jova Lynne explores colonization and exportation of good within the Caribbean landscape through her installation Tally Mi Banana (2017). According to Lynne, “When I think about my families home in Jamaica, there is always fresh fruit available that usually comes from the front of the yard. Simultaneously, much of the furniture is covered in plastic as a way to preserve the pieces that family has worked so hard to procure.” This installation brings together ideas around value and trickery while also uplifting the reality of exportation, specifically of bananas within a Jamaican context.

Stop by during Museum hours all month, and click here to see all the great free Thursday and Saturday activations happening around the space in celebration of our Caribbean community.

Friendly reminder that there is no First Saturday this month! We will be taking our annual September hiatus to enjoy the weekend-long WIACDA Caribbean Carnival festivities, but the Museum will still be open Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm. 

Curious what that yellow shipping container is doing on our plaza? That's the roving home base of our friends @caribbeing, and this August they’ll be stationed out front for their 3rd annual, month-long residency. You also might have noticed that the container has some budding new additions this week thanks to artist Miriam Castillo and the city-wide 100 Gates Project.  

Stop by during Museum hours all month, and click here to see all the great free Thursday and Saturday activations happening around the space in celebration of our Caribbean community. 

Curious what that yellow shipping container is doing on our plaza? That’s the roving home of our friends @caribbeing, and this August they’ll be stationed out front for their third annual, month-long residency. Inside the CaribBEING House you can find works by six emerging Caribbean artists that each play with the idea of the living room and it’s place within the home. We’ll feature these works here throughout the month.

Ivan Forde utilizes the immediacy of photography, the intimacy of drawing, the social reach of printmaking and sound installation to question notions of origin, identity, and place. His print They Say It’s Not True But There’s Truth In It (2018) depicts the imagined founding of his grandmother’s village in Buxton, Guyuana. Forde visited the community to listen and record oral narratives of village activists, teachers, and his 93-year-old great aunt about how freed-Africans founded Buxton and its history as a political center in Guyana. According to the artist, “the village stories are told differently depending on the subjective voice telling it and so new sets of challenges were presented. The most important one being that this project is not responding to a book or ancient poem, but an actual place inhabited by living breathing people who still hold the narrative within their bodies.” 

Stop by during Museum hours all month, and click here to see all the great free Thursday and Saturday activations happening around the space in celebration of our Caribbean community.