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November 18, 2009
Northern Mexico’s Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York’s American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America’s last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.
November 16, 2009
‘The African Presence in México’ – Anacostia museum mounts border-crossing mission
November 10, 2009
El Museo del Barrio: Illuminating Past, Present and Future of Latino and Latin American Art
November 5, 2009
Iberoamerica:Our Way(s) lasts from November 5-13 and will feature Latin American films at MoMA in NYC
November 2, 2009
Mexico’s death museum lives up to morbid name in Aguascalientes, Mexico
October 28, 2009
Smithsonian Latino Center Presents a 3-D Experience in the Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum
NYC’s El Museo del Barrio reopens galleries
October 17, 2009
Children sang, soldiers paraded and crowds cheered during the historic pageantry of the first meeting of the presidents of the United States and Mexico 100 years ago today in El Paso and Juárez. – The meeting between U.S. President William Howard Taft and Mexican President Porfirio Diaz will be commemorated by events and an exhibit at the El Paso Museum of History that opens Saturday to the public.
October 14, 2009
University of Nevada, Reno professor Emma Sepulveda Pulvirenti was appointed to the commission this week by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. – National Museum of the American Latino Commission.
El Museo del Barrio marks re-opening, 40-yr. anniversary with fresh new look – NYC
Estefan, Longoria Ecstatic About National Latino Museum… We Just Need to Raise, Like $300 Million
October 12, 2009
Beyond the Barrio, With Growing Pains – El Museo del Barrio reopens with a new glass facade, a redesigned courtyard and modernized galleries, including one devoted to its permanent collection in East Harlem, NYC – Rafael Montañez Ortiz
October 11, 2009
A Museum of Postcards Attracts Top Brands in Argentina – Sold in Diesel Stores for $100, This Form of ‘Graphic Terrorism’ Is Bankable
October 7, 2009
Eventus President and CEO Nelson Albareda was nominated to serve on a commission created to study the establishment of a National Museum of the American Latino
October 5, 2009
Sandra Cisneros’ ofrenda to her parents on exhibit in Chicago
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Latinos celebrate ocean conservation
September 30, 2009
With little movement on Immigration reform among lawmakers, the debate is entering a new space: museums. From New York to San Francisco, a network of museums will address tough questions on Immigration, including health care, borders and citizenship.
Detroit Science Center will open “The Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato” — a scientific, medical and cultural look at 36 Mexicans buried between about 1850 and 1950 whose bodies were unintentionally mummified in cement crypts.
Businessman activist Cid Wilson (only Dominican in the group) has proudly set to work on the task given him by President Barack Obama, which is to plan together with other prominent leaders the creation of the National Museum of the American Latino.
September 24, 2009
The world-famous British Museum is leaping into another controversy with a special exhibit re-examining the life of Montezuma, the doomed last ruler of the Aztecs.
Emilio Estefan may finally have his shot at getting the Miami Sound Machine named a national treasure. – President Barack Obama has deemed the former member of group member a suitable candidate for the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino
U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday appointed several people to a panel studying the feasibility of creating an American Latino museum, the White House said.
Emilio Estefan estudiará creación de museo hispano
September 22, 2009
Race Is a $50 Billion Reality for the U.S. Health System – Traveling Exhibit Asks Los Angeles to Explore Why at California Science Center
September 17, 2009
Tango with Piranha! The National Aquarium in Washington Celebrates Latino Heritage Day on September 20
September 14, 2009
September is Hispanic heritage month and Anchorage residents celebrated it Sunday at the Anchorage Museum.
September 9, 2009
Photos: National Museum of American History Explores Bracero Story in New Exhibition – website http://americanhistory.si.edu/bracero
Bracero Story Explored in New Smithsonian Exhibition
September 1, 2009
Smithsonian celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with many free events
August 24, 2009
7 things you didn’t know about Latinos in WWII – “Images of Valor” exhibition at Museum of Coastal Bend at Victoria College
he Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) Museum of San Marcos, 131 Guadalupe Street, is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage month with a reception at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 16.
August 17, 2009
Museum will honor Mexico’s Boxer Salvador Sanchez
August 3, 2009
About 3,000 years’ worth of Mexican artistry makes up one of the latest Wichita Art Museum exhibits. “Los Artes de Mexico,” or “The Arts of Mexico,” runs until Sept. 6 and features work from artists such as painter and muralist Diego Rivera.
In a partnership with the Governor’s Advisory Council on Hispanic Affairs (GACHA), the Biggs Museum will exhibit the works of contemporary Hispanic artists living or working in the State of Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic Region
July 28, 2009
Twitter en Español: LACMA the First Museum to Offer Bilingual Tweets
July 16, 2009
A fundraising campaign is under way in San Antonio to build a new library and museum dedicated to teaching the history of Hispanic culture in Texas. The Hispanic Heritage Center
July 14, 2009
The Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa and the local chapter of the National Society of Hispanic MBAs joined forces for the MOSI National Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award 2009 and the Youth Enriched by Science mentoring program.
June 25, 2009
Museo Alameda’s exhibit explores influence of Latinos on American music
June 23, 2009
Las Américas, the final and most broad-reaching program of the Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture Smithsonian Folklife Festival “living exhibitions” series
June 16, 2009
New exhibit focuses on Latino WWII veterans – University of Texas Prof Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez is the director of the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project – The exhibit will be on display at In Their Own Words Veterans Museum in Perham, Minn. until July 31.
June 6, 2009
Museum dedicated to AfroPeruvian culture was inaugurated today
June 1, 2009
Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Opens Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints
May 29, 2009
U.S. border czar Alan Bersin visits Border Patrol Museum as agency celebrates 85 years
March 11, 2009
Mexico City’s Museo de la Ciudad is playing host to a photojournalism exhibition — Expofotoperiodismo — that features nearly 50 photos from 2008.
March 10, 2009
Arts groups push for Phoenix Latino museum
March 3, 2009
With over 200 pieces of work from the 1930s-70s, “Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda” at UCLA’s Fowler Museum is a stunning retrospective and the first for the famed silversmith.
December 20, 2008
Mexico City: chic destination for pocos pesos – Move over greasy tacos and tacky trinkets: Mexico City is home to a vast network of chic museums, top-notch restaurants and trendy night clubs. There’s even an Icebar.
December 19, 2008
University of Central Florida dean aids effort to establish Hispanic museum – Jose B. Fernandez
December 18, 2008
“Las bicicletas” (”the bicycles”) outside Mexico City’s Museo de Palacio de Bellas Artes is one of two works created by artist Gilberto Aceves Navarro especially for the museum’s retrospective exhibition of his art.
December 12, 2008
University of Central Florida Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities José B. Fernández has been appointed to serve on a 23-member commission that will explore the potential of creating a national museum dedicated to American Latinos.
Puerto Rican Art Now-with Antonio Martorell Presented at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum Dec. 12
Edwin Sulca Lagos, one of the most prominent weavers of Ayacucho in southern Peru, will be exhibiting his textile designs during a five-month show at the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, SD.
December 8, 2008
Mummies from Guanajuato museum are on display in Monterrey, Mexico
December 5, 2008
Latino Music Superstar Daddy Yankee Honored by Museo Alameda and City of San Antonio
Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, has been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on a 23-member commission charged with exploring options for creating a national museum dedicated to American Latinos.
December 2, 2008
Exhibit explores, celebrates African presence in Mexico – The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present,” a traveling exhibition currently at the Museo Alameda – San Antonio
Dia de Los Muertos may have come and gone this year, but the spirit of the holiday lives on at the Autry National Center of the American West as part of the “Bold Caballeros y Noble Bandidas” exhibition – Los Angeles
November 19, 2008
The director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum said Tuesday he wants to return about 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico, almost a century after a U.S. consul dredged the artifacts from the sacred lake at the ruins of Chichen Itza.
November 7, 2008
Eduardo Diaz, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, was appointed yesterday to lead the Smithsonian Latino Center.
November 6, 2008
The Museum of Latin American Art Inaugurates The Lexus Gallery with Photo-Based Art from the Permanent Collection – Long Beach, California
November 3, 2008
Latino vibe at UCLA’s Fowler Museum
September 22, 2008
Daniel Martin Diaz will have a solo exhibition, titled “Anatomy of Sorrow,” at the Arizona State Museum.
Family Fiesta at Michigan State University Museum celebrates Latino culture, heritage
September 21, 2008
Smithsonian Latin Center Pays Tribute to Puerto Rican Culture
September 15, 2008
Latinos are in the spotlight in a national Smithsonian exhibit opening Tuesday at the Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing, Mich. The free exhibit, “Our Journeys/Our Stories, Portraits of Latino Achievement,” runs through Jan. 4 at the museum on West Circle Drive. It is the final stop on the exhibit’s national tour.
Latino Art Exhibition lets Hispanic artists shine – opening Tuesday, Sept. 16, in the Community Gallery at the Knoxville Museum of Art. The exhibit continues through Oct. 16.
September 12, 2008
Latino activist George Ortiz joined other local Latinos in contributing memories, and lending his recorded voice, to the Sonoma County Museum’s new exhibit, “La Frontera Del Norte” (“The Frontier of the North,”) which opened Friday night in Santa Rosa.
September 10, 2008
The Delaware Art Museum presents “Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds — Simple Complexities (Vidas Hispanas, Mundos Latinos — Simplicidad y Complejidad),” an exhibition featuring more than 25 works of art by Hispanic artists, on view till October 12.
September 3, 2008
The J. Paul Getty Museum has received a 2008 MUSE Award for Audio and Visual Tours for its bilingual audio tour for the exhibition The Goat’s Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide.
The Nasher Museum of Art is reaching out to North Carolina’s burgeoning Hispanic population in an unprecedented way, providing information for its exhibition, “El Greco to Velazquez,” in both Spanish and English.
August 17, 2008
Gregorio Luke takes Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture post
August 7, 2008
AT&T contributes $100,000 to Museo Alameda – San Antonio
August 4, 2008
Nerman Museum show highlights Hispanic weavers – Kansas City
August 3, 2008
Museo Alameda Opens Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City Exhibition is Second Phase of Blockbuster Presentation, “Mexico at the Museo” – San Antonio
July 23, 2008
Thanks to Frida Kahlo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Finally Draws Latino Crowd
July 22, 2008
LAXART Presents the Debut of Miguel Angel Rios’ Video Crudo
U.S. Latinos may get a national museum of their own
July 14, 2008
Art: Africans in Mexico – A revelatory exhibition at the African American Museum shows their little-known influence on Mexican culture. – Philadelphia
Smithsonian Takes Us to Puerto Rico
July 13, 2008
A Nation of Everybody: A Chicago art exhibit stirs dialogue on immigration reform
June 23, 2008
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 was on view at El Museo del Barrio in New York in May
June 19, 2008
Why the Guggenheim won’t open a branch in Guadalajara, Mexico
June 17, 2008
Guiding Hands Help Immigrant Artists Connect – New York
Cheech Marin’s Chicano art at LACMA – Los Angeles
Austin Tejano Music Coalition E-News Volume 1 Number 1
Immigration museum finds permanent residence – San Diego
June 12, 2008
Cubans Wifredo Lam and Carlos Luna showcased at Museum of Latin American Art – Los Angeles
June 9, 2008
Plans for national Latino museum get underway
Mexican artists enrich, inspire Bay Area
June 5, 2008
Queer proms and immigrant stories: Local radio producer defies the conventional – Tania Unzueta in Chicago
May 28, 2008
The galleries of the venerable Museo del Barrio have officially closed to make way for the last stage of a $28 million renovation that will give a needed face-lift to the city’s only Latin-focused museum. – NYC
May 22, 2008
Museo Alameda is assembling collection of Mexican art in San Antonio
Artist Jesus Moroles to Create Large-scale Sculpture on Prexy’s Pasture – University of Wyoming
Hispanic Museums and Memorial Day – Advertising Age – The Big Tent
May 21, 2008
Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff, has been named MOSI’s 2008 National Hispanic Scientist of the Year. – Museum of Science and Industry
