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As communities across the country celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, El Museo del Barrio \u2014 the nation\u2019s leading museum dedicated to Puerto Rican, Latine, and Latin American art and culture \u2014 invites audiences to experience a vibrant season of exhibitions, public programs, and cultural events that honor the richness, creativity, and diversity of Latine artistic expression.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The museum presents a robust lineup of artist talks, film screenings, family programs, educator workshops, performances, community conversations, and beloved annual traditions, including D\u00eda de Muertos, alongside two major exhibitions:\u00a0Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & Poetics<\/a>\u00a0and the New York presentation of the traveling exhibition\u00a0Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art<\/a>. Together, these programs and exhibitions celebrate the artists, ideas, histories, and communities that continue to shape Puerto Rican, Latine, and Latin American culture while inviting visitors to engage with art as a catalyst for dialogue, discovery, and connection.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cPublic programs have the power to transform museums from places people visit into places where communities gather,\u201d said\u00a0Arturo Ag\u00fcero, Director of Education and Public Programs\u00a0at El Museo del Barrio. \u201cAs we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, this season offers opportunities for audiences of all ages to connect through art, dialogue, and cultural traditions while celebrating the creativity and resilience of Puerto Rican, Latine, and Latin American communities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n PUBLIC PROGRAMS\u00a0<\/p>\n Noches de Cine | New Latino Short Films\u00a0<\/p>\n Thursday, September 24, 2026 | 6:30 PM \u2013 8:30 PM | Free\u00a0<\/p>\n Register\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, this special edition of Noches de Cine steps outside the feature format for a single night of short films from across the Americas. Different countries, different generations of filmmakers, different ways of working with the camera \u2014 together, tracing a hemisphere\u2019s worth of Latine and Latin American storytelling, one short film at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n Book Launch | Julia Alvarez:\u00a0In the Time of the Butterflies\u00a0<\/p>\n Monday, September 14, 2026 | 7:00 PM \u2013 9:30 PM | Tickets: $5 or $30 with book\u00a0<\/p>\n Register\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n More than thirty years after its original publication,\u00a0In the Time of the Butterflies<\/a>\u00a0continues to inspire readers around the world. Join author Julia Alvarez for a conversation celebrating the book\u2019s new illustrated adaptation and the enduring stories at its heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n El Museo After Dark | Disco and Desire\u00a0<\/p>\n Friday, September 18, 2026 | 7:00 PM \u2013 10:00 PM | $10.00\u00a0<\/p>\n Register\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Inspired by\u00a0Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art,<\/a>\u00a0this after-hours celebration brings together Latino disco, dancing, and late-night gallery experiences. Explore the exhibition, hit the dance floor, and immerse yourself in the music, style, and nightlife that shaped Sandoval\u2019s creative world.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Armory Show\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n September 24 \u2013 27, 2026 | The Javits Art Center\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n A cornerstone of New York\u2019s cultural landscape since 1994,\u00a0The Armory Show<\/a>\u00a0opens New York\u2019s fall art season by bringing the world\u2019s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to the Javits Center each year. The fair emphasizes thoughtful programming, elevated presentations, curatorial excellence, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations.\u00a0<\/p>\n El Museo del Barrio is honored to be this year\u2019s Armory Spotlight Recipient. Through its nonprofit booth, El Museo will highlight its mission and history,\u00a0present work by Mar\u00eda L\u00facia \u201cLulu\u201d Varona Borges, and invite fairgoers to participate in the creation of one of the artist\u2019s textile pieces on site at The Armory Show. The presentation will also provide an opportunity for El Museo to connect with collectors, curators, artists, and new audiences from around the world during one of the art world\u2019s most significant annual gatherings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Book Launch |\u00a0Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop\u00a0<\/p>\n Friday, October 9, 2026 | 5:00 PM \u2013 7:00 PM | Free\u00a0<\/p>\n Register\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Celebrate the release of\u00a0Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop<\/a>,\u00a0the counterpart catalogue to\u00a0\u00a0El Museo del Barrio\u2019s 2025 exhibition of the same name. Join artist\u00a0Candida Alvarez\u00a0and catalogue contributors\u00a0Zuna Maza, Assistant Curator at El Museo del Barrio, and\u00a0Adriana Zavala, Chair of the History of Art and Architecture Department at Tufts University, as they discuss various\u00a0\u00a0aspects of Alvarez\u2019s artistic trajectory and relationship with El Museo (where she was employed earlier in her career) covered in the publication. The discussion will be moderated by Abdiel D. Segarra R\u00edos, Curator at the Museo de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo de Puerto Rico (MAC).\u00a0<\/p>\n En Conversaci\u00f3n | Making Latinidad\u00a0<\/p>\n Thursday, October 15, 2026 | 2:00 PM \u2013 5:00 PM\u00a0|\u00a0Free\u00a0<\/p>\n Register\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n What does Latinidad mean today, and who gets to shape its future? Bringing together artists, writers, educators, organizers, and cultural leaders, this public conversation explores how ideas of Latinidad are created, challenged, and transformed across culture, politics, and everyday life.\u00a0<\/p>\n En Familia | D\u00eda de Muertos\u00a0<\/p>\n Saturday, October 17, 2026 | 10:00 AM \u2013 2:00 PM |\u00a0Free\u00a0<\/p>\n Register\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Join El Museo del Barrio\u2019s annual D\u00eda de Muertos celebration featuring art-making activities, live music, community altars, and family-friendly experiences. Together, we honor and remember loved ones who have passed while celebrating the traditions, stories, and memories that continue to connect generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n EXHIBITIONS\u00a0<\/p>\n Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & Poetics<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n On view through November 15, 2026\u00a0<\/p>\n Press Preview: 10:00 AM on September 9, 2026. RSVP\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n El Museo del Barrio is pleased to present\u00a0Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & Poetics<\/a>, an exhibition inspired by a significant project from the museum\u2019s history by artist, poet, and Exit Art co-founder Papo Colo. The show is anchored by a recent gift to El Museo\u2019s Permanent Collection of several panels from Colo\u2019s\u00a0Octopus: An Act of Sculpture\u00a0(1982). First staged in El Museo\u2019s courtyard in 1982, the piece consists of an accordion-style book sculpture. Presented at El Museo for the first time in more than four decades,\u00a0Octopus & Others\u00a0showcases the power of collaboration between artists and poets and artworks that embrace and subvert the book form and its function.\u00a0<\/p>\n Each \u201cpage\u201d of\u00a0Octopus\u00a0was made onsite by an artist and\/or poet from New York City\u2019s uptown and downtown scenes that Colo invited to contribute.\u00a0\u00a0The resulting participatory sculpture represented an anthology of the various currents in poetry and art of New York\u2019s artistic ecosystem of the early 1980s. Participants included writers and poets such as Nicholasa Mohr and Pedro Pietri, alongside artists Vito Acconci, David Hammons, Tehching Hsieh, Catalina Parra, and Juan S\u00e1nchez, among others.\u00a0Octopus\u00a0not only reflected Exit Art\u2019s interdisciplinary and multicultural ethos but also underscores El Museo\u2019s role within New York\u2019s alternative cultural network and its longstanding commitment to experimentation, innovation, and cultural exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n With\u00a0Octopus\u00a0Colo centered the collaborative gesture and the transformation of the book into sculpture. Taking this as a point of departure,\u00a0Octopus & Others<\/a>\u00a0brings together cross-generational contributions of artists and poets that share its collaborative ethos. Furthermore, this grouping of collection works, archival materials, and select loans, showcases artistic practices that have embraced and reconsidered the book form in response to shared social, political, and environmental concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n The exhibition is curated by El Museo del Barrio\u2019s Assistant Curator, Zuna Maza.\u00a0<\/p>\n Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art<\/a><\/p>\n September 10, 2026 \u2013 January 10, 2027\u00a0<\/p>\n Press Preview: 10:00 AM on September 9, 2026. RSVP\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n El Museo del Barrio is proud to be the only New York venue for\u00a0Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art<\/a>,\u00a0opening September 10, 2026, a major exhibition examining the life and work of Teddy Sandoval (1949\u20131995), an innovative yet historically underrecognized artist whose practice explored gender, sexuality, identity, and belonging with humor and political urgency. Rooted in Los Angeles\u2019s queer and Chicane artistic communities, Sandoval\u2019s work engaged the social and cultural movements shaping the United States and Latin America from the 1970s through the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n Curated by\u00a0C. Ondine Chavoya<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0David Evans Frantz<\/a>, the exhibition takes its title from Butch Gardens, a gay bar in Los Angeles frequented by Sandoval and fellow Chicane patrons in the early 1970s. Sandoval adopted the bar\u2019s name for the fictional \u201cButch Gardens School of Art,\u201d a conceptual framework through which he fostered collaboration, experimentation, and creative community while challenging traditional art world structures.\u00a0<\/p>\n Expanding beyond a conventional retrospective, the exhibition places Sandoval\u2019s work in dialogue with a multigenerational group of queer, Latine, and Latin American artists whose practices share related visual languages and political concerns. Spanning photography, painting, drawing, collage, conceptual art, and performance, the exhibition foregrounds interconnected histories of queer and diasporic artistic production across the Americas.\u00a0<\/p>\n For El Museo del Barrio\u2019s presentation, additional loans and artworks from the museum\u2019s collection expand on the themes of self-fashioning and gender presentation in the exhibition. These additional artworks also draw the east and west coasts into closer conversation with material that examines queer spaces and queer art in New York City during the period that Teddy Sandoval was working in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n The traveling retrospective is organized by\u00a0Independent Curators International (ICI)<\/a>\u00a0and developed in partnership with\u00a0Williams College Museum of Art<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Vincent Price Art Museum<\/a>.\u00a0El Museo\u2019s presentation is overseen by Lee Sessions, El Museo del Barrio\u2019s Permanent Collections Associate Curator.\u00a0<\/p>\n SPONSORS:\u00a0<\/p>\n Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & Poetics<\/a>,\u00a0Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art<\/a>\u00a0and other programs at El Museo del Barrio are supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Major private support for exhibitions and programs at El Museo is provided by The AG Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Charina Endowment Fund, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Ford Foundation, Getty Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Maestro Dobel Tequila, Mellon Foundation, Morgan Stanley, Paul Hastings LLP, Teiger Foundation, and Terra Foundation for American Art, along with El Museo\u2019s Board of Trustees and numerous additional foundation, corporate, and individual supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n ABOUT EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO<\/p>\n El Museo del Barrio is the nation\u2019s leading Latine and Latin American cultural institution. The Museum welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of these communities through its extensive Permanent Collection, varied exhibitions and publications, bilingual public programs, educational activities, festivals, and special events.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Museum is located at 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street in New York City. The Museum is open Thursdays through Sundays from 11:00am \u2013 5:00pm. Pay-what you can. To connect with El Museo via social media, follow us on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0X<\/a>. 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