Open House

You're invited to our Open House! 🏡

June 3, 12–8 p.m.

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On Saturday, we’re celebrating new exhibitions by Malikah and Standing on the Corner with a day full of live music, performances, and screenings—all free and open to the public, from 12 to 8 p.m.

➡️ From 12 to 4 p.m., join us in the Courtyard for henna tattoos, Egyptian martial arts performances, and more in honor of Malikah's exhibition in our Homeroom space. 

🎼 See the recently opened Standing on the Corner exhibition Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers, open from 12 to 4 p.m.

🎥 At 1:30 p.m. catch a screening of Art21’s new feature on Daniel Lind-Ramos, which gives an inside look into his studio in Loíza, Puerto Rico. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Jurrell Lewis, Art21's Assistant Curator. 

🗣️At 3:00 p.m. attend the second part of our Indigenous and Migrant Justice Symposium, featuring a keynote lecture by renowned sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. The program will be conducted in Spanish, with simultaneous translation in English available. 

🎹 At 7 p.m., hear avant-garde musical ensemble Standing on the Corner’s performance Bembe Secreto, free with RSVP. The artists will activate their installation of seven pianos, each distinctly presented and prepared with symbolic objects inserted into their strings to create apparitional interventions.

🎵 Throughout the day, hear a special playlist celebrating Malikah at Mina's and on the museum's terrace. 🍽️ All day long enjoy happy hour with special cocktails and menu items at Mina's.

On Saturday, we’re celebrating new exhibitions by Malikah and Standing on the Corner with a day full of live music, performances, and screenings—all free and open to the public, from 12 to 8 p.m.

➡️ From 12 to 4 p.m., join us in the Courtyard for henna tattoos, Egyptian martial arts performances, and more in honor of Malikah's exhibition in our Homeroom space. 

🎼 See the recently opened Standing on the Corner exhibition Seven Prepared Pianos for the Seven African Powers, open from 12 to 4 p.m.

🎥 At 1:30 p.m. catch a screening of Art21’s new feature on Daniel Lind-Ramos, which gives an inside look into his studio in Loíza, Puerto Rico. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Jurrell Lewis, Art21's Assistant Curator. 

🗣️At 3:00 p.m. attend the second part of our Indigenous and Migrant Justice Symposium, featuring a keynote lecture by renowned sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. The program will be conducted in Spanish, with simultaneous translation in English available. 

🎹 At 7 p.m., hear avant-garde musical ensemble Standing on the Corner’s performance Bembe Secreto, free with RSVP. The artists will activate their installation of seven pianos, each distinctly presented and prepared with symbolic objects inserted into their strings to create apparitional interventions.

🎵 Throughout the day, hear a special playlist celebrating Malikah at Mina's and on the museum's terrace. 🍽️ All day long enjoy happy hour with special cocktails and menu items at Mina's.

Daniel Lind-Ramos

Daniel Lind-Ramos

El Viejo Griot — Una historia de todos nosotros

Ends Sep 4
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  • Exhibition

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Image: Baño de María. 2018-2022. Assemblage. 127 x 120 x 48 inches (320 x 243.8 x 121.9 centimeters). Photo: Ryan Gamma.
Video: Directed/Produced by Nora Rodriguez. Video by Pati Cruz and Marissa Alper. Editing by Marissa Alper.

Poetry by Iiu Susiraja

Poetry by Iiu Susiraja

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Photo credit: Julia Schäfer

Susiraja's work has a deep connection to language. Her titles often take the form of quips and puns, and she has a practice of writing short poems. This selection of poems, penned between 2007 and 2012, reflects the dark humor and tenderness of her images.

Iiu Susiraja

Iiu Susiraja

A style called a dead fish

Ends Sep 4
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Iiu Susiraja. Sausage cupid. 2019. Chromogenic print. 30 ½ x 30 ½” (77.5 x 77.5 cm) (framed). Courtesy the artist, Makasiini Contemporary, and Nino Mier Gallery.

Los Ritmos del Griot

Los Ritmos del Griot

A Playlist by Payola Isabel in Honor of Daniel Lind-Ramos

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Listen to a special playlist celebrating Daniel Lind-Ramos created by Payola Isabel, DJ and co-founder of Radiored. Radiored is a platform for artistic exchange founded in 2015 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Their mission is to support emerging artists from the island, giving them a space to share their work and facilitating the export of their music.

“The playlist is a transformation of African and Caribbean rhythms. I invite you to listen to the playlist from start to finish and not in shuffle. Its progression is purposefully curated.” — Payola Isabel

Listen to a special playlist celebrating Daniel Lind-Ramos created by Payola Isabel, DJ and co-founder of Radiored. Radiored is a platform for artistic exchange founded in 2015 in Santurce, Puerto Rico. Their mission is to support emerging artists from the island, giving them a space to share their work and facilitating the export of their music.

“The playlist is a transformation of African and Caribbean rhythms. I invite you to listen to the playlist from start to finish and not in shuffle. Its progression is purposefully curated.” — Payola Isabel

Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton

Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton

Q'iwanakaxa/Q'iwsanakaxa Utjxiwa (Cacique apoderado Francisco Tancara & Rosa Quiñones confronted by the subprefecto, chief of police, corregidor, archbishop, Reid Shepard, & Adventist missionaries)

Ends Oct 2
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Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton Helados. 2023. Scanned traditional medicine incorporated into digital image.

Daniel Lind-Ramos in His Studio

Daniel Lind-Ramos in His Studio

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Directed/Produced by Nora Rodriguez. Filmed by Pati Cruz and Marissa Alper. Edited by Marissa Alper.

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"To take care of objects is to take care of memory." — Daniel Lind-Ramos

Experience Daniel's monumental sculptures that explore the connected histories and enduring practices of Afro-Caribbean communities in Puerto Rico and around the world. Using everyday objects—such as ropes, tarps, coconuts, wood scraps, and palm leaves—the artist creates assemblages that reveal the erasure of local traditions in the face of environmental degradation, climate change, and systemic neglect.

⬆️ Get to know Daniel in his studio in Loíza, Puerto Rico, along with some brand new works created for the show at MoMA PS1!

“Cuidar los objetos es cuidar la memoria”. — Daniel Lind-Ramos  

A partir del 20 de abril, nuestras galerías se llenarán de las esculturas monumentales de Daniel que exploran las historias y prácticas conectadas de las comunidades afrocaribeñas de todo el mundo. Utilizando objetos cotidianos encontrados y regalados —como cuerdas, toldos, cocos, restos de madera y hojas de palmera— el artista crea ensamblajes que revelan la resistencia de las tradiciones locales frente a la degradación medioambiental, el cambio climático y el abandono sistémico.  

⬆️ ¡Conozca a Daniel en su taller en Loíza, Puerto Rico, junto con algunas obras totalmente nuevas producidas para la exposición en el MoMA PS1!

Onyeka Igwe

Onyeka Igwe

A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver)

Ends Aug 21
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  • Exhibition

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Onyeka Igwe. Sitting on a Man (video still). 2018. 3-channel HD Video. Duration: 6'41".

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Scenes from the Archives

Scenes from the Archives

by Onyeka Igwe

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Listen to the artist Onyeka Igwe read from a text she wrote about her experience conducting research at the Bristol Archives in Southwest England. Igwe describes the sensation of viewing and handling brittle historical materials, which often evoked physical and visceral reactions, such as during the process of opening poorly preserved film canisters, some nearly one hundred years old. She and a colleague were cataloging items from the collection of the former British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, which held records and ephemera from private citizens and government officials related to the history of British colonization in Africa and beyond. At the time this text was written, Igwe was searching for film stock originally recorded in and around Nigeria by the Colonial Film Unit, which produced moving image reels for propaganda purposes. Later, Igwe personally digitized some of the celluloid found in this archive, including some passages that appear in the film Specialised Technique, now on view in her exhibition, A Repertoire of Protest (No Dance, No Palaver).

Malikah

Malikah

Ends Oct 9
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  • Homeroom

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Malikah member leaders from Astoria preparing for their upcoming Homeroom exhibition at their third storytelling workshop

Photo credit: Aziz Ramos