PAST PROJECTS

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Open Call, The first ever open call in the organization’s history, it invited New York City-based, full-time artists at a pivotal juncture in their careers to propose and realize a project with Creative Time. The 2019 artist, Risa Puno, was selected from over 600 applications.

Creative Time Summit: On Archipelagos and Other Imaginaries—Collective Strategies to Inhabit the World, The 2018 Summit included speakers such as Bhenji Ra, genderqueer performance and interdisciplinary artist; Vijay Prashad, Indian historian, journalist, and Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research; Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, and member of the object-oriented philosophy movement; Edwidge Danticat, Award-winning author of several books and 2009 MacArthur fellow and more.

Basilea invited visitors to Art Basel to reflect on a city’s possibilities through a series of immersive projects. Conceived by artists Lara Almarcegui, Isabel Lewis, and architecture studio Recetas Urbanas led by Santiago Cirugeda, Basilea was a project by Creative Time, curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, and commissioned by Art Basel.

Bring Down The Walls, a three-part public art project with artist Phil Collins, which turned an unconventional lens on the prison industrial complex through house music and nightlife.

Creative Time Summit: Of Homelands and Revolution, featuring Gayatri Spivak, Winona LaDuke, Wanda Nanibush, Elizabeth Mpofu, Syrus Marcus Ware, Srećko Horvat, Crack Rodriguez, and Wael Shawky, amongst over 80 international and Toronto-based participants.

Pledges of Allegiance, a serialized commission of sixteen flags, each created by an individual artist. Participating artists were: Tania Bruguera, Alex Da Corte, Jeremy Deller, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ann Hamilton, Robert Longo, Josephine Meckseper, Marilyn Minter, Vik Muniz, Jayson Musson, Ahmet Ögüt, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Pedro Reyes, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Nari Ward.

Here Lie the Secrets of the Visitors of Green-Wood Cemetery, a 25-year new public artwork with artist Sophie Calle. Visitors are invited to transcribe their secrets onto paper, and deposit them into the earth below, through a slot on a marble obelisk of Calle’s design.

In Situ, a site-specific series of conversations pairing leading artists and public intellectuals to address critical topics of our time, presented by Creative Time and The New York Public Library.

COMMUNICATIONS

Doomocracy, a haunted house of political horrors by artist Pedro Reyes that marked the confluence of two events haunting the American cultural imagination: Halloween and the 2016 presidential election.

Creative Time Summit DC: Occupy the Future, featuring over 50 speakers, including Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza; artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, Hans-Ulrich Obrist; Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye; Guardian and Harper’s columnist Thomas Frank; genderqueer artist Vaginal Davis, actor and designer, Waris Ahluwalia; and artist Carrie Mae Weems.

Figure and Form: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, This exhibition featured a selection of recent acquisitions for El Museo del Barrio’s permanent collection. Artists included in Figure and Form: Julio Alpuy, David Antonio Cruz, Nemesio Antúnez, caraballo-farman (Abou Farman and Leonor Caraballo), Luis Cruz Azaceta, Alessandra Expósito, Caio Fonseca, Louis Méndez, Ernesto Pujol, Nick Quijano, Chuck Ramírez, Analia Segal, Francisco Toledo, Rigoberto Torres, and William Villalongo.

ANTONIO LOPEZ: Future Funk Fashion, Museo del Barrio exhibition on the work of the fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez (1943-1987). It explored various aspects of the work including his high- fashion illustration, his relationship to specific models, his shoe and jewelry designs, and images of people he came to know and love from the streets of New York City. The show was co-curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui.

THE ILLUSIVE EYE, an international survey on Kinetic and Op art. The exhibition provided a special focus on artwork from the Americas and featured major artists from eighteen countries in Latin America and beyond.

¡Presente! The Young Lords in New York explored the legacy of the Young Lords in East Harlem, the Bronx, and the Lower East Side, focusing on specific political events that the Young Lords organized in these locations.

UNDER THE MEXICAN SKY: Gabriel Figueroa-Art and Film, an exhibition on the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (1907–1997) who helped forge an evocative and enduring image of Mexico through his work in the early ‘30s to early ’80s.

PLAYING WITH FIRE: Political Interventions, Dissident Acts, and Mischievous Actions, traced the founding of El Museo del Barrio by Raphael Montañez Ortíz at the end of the 60s, an era of social unrest and radical activism in the United States and throughout the Americas. The works in the exhibition target colonialism, imperialism, urban neglect, and cultural hegemony with a vast array of weapons, including irreverence and humor.

MARISOL: Sculptures and Works on Paper, the artist’s first solo show in a New York museum. It featured 30 works by the artist and was the first retrospective to include Marisol’s work on paper in conjunction with her sculptures. The exhibition reestablished Marisol as a major figure in postwar American art, fostered a broader understanding of her work, and positioned it within a larger historical context.