The Bronx Museum of the Arts Exhibitions December 2019

Fine art museum in New York , United States

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

Established	1971 (51 years ago)  (1971)
Location	1040 M Concourse the Bronx, New York 10456, The states
Coordinates	40°49′51.vi″N 73°55′11.5″Due west  /  40.831000°N 73.919861°Due west  / 40.831000; -73.919861 Coordinates: 40°49′51.6″N 73°55′11.5″W  /  xl.831000°N 73.919861°W  / 40.831000; -73.919861
Type	Fine art museum
Founder	Irma Fleck[one]
Director	Klaudio Rodriguez
Public transit admission	Subway: ​ to 167th Street Charabanc: Bx1, Bx2, Bx33, Bx35
Website	bronxmuseum.org

The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), likewise called the Bronx Museum of Art ^[two] or only the Bronx Museum,^[iii] is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by American artists, only it has hosted exhibitions of art and blueprint from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Its permanent collection consists of more 800 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on newspaper.^[iv] The museum is part of the One thousand Concourse Celebrated District.^[v]

History [edit]

The Bronx Museum of the Arts was originally opened to try to stir involvement in the arts in the Bronx borough and to serve the diverse populations of the area.^[6] The museum opened on May eleven, 1971, in a partnership betwixt the Bronx Council on the Arts, which was founded in 1961, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^{[2] [vii]} The opening coincided with a borough-wide "Bronx 24-hour interval" effect.^[eight] The first exhibit consisted of 28 paintings from the Met'due south drove.^[2] The museum was originally housed in the first floor rotunda (the Veteran's Memorial Hall) of the Bronx County Courthouse, converted using $77,000 in municipal funds.^{[2] [seven] [9]} Additional galleries were located in the Bronx'southward Co-op City, Bedford Park, and Allerton neighborhoods, with the Allerton gallery was located in the Beth Abraham Hospital.^[10] In its first 12 years of operation, the museum held over 350 exhibitions.^[10]

In 1982, the city purchased a vacant synagogue at 165th Street and the Grand Concourse^[11] as a new location for the museum.^{[iv] [5] [9]} The new location opened to the public in May 1983, in conjunction with "Bronx Week," which succeeded "Bronx Day."^{[10] [12]} The new space was inaugurated with an exhibition of twentieth century artwork. It consisted of paintings, photographs, and prints borrowed form the Met.^[xiii] An expansion and renovation was completed in 1988 at the toll of $5.8 million.^{[9] [1] [14]}

In February 2004, construction began on a $19 million expansion projection that doubled the museum'south size to 33,000 square anxiety (iii,100 m²). The expansion opened in October 2006.^{[3] [9] [15]} In 2008, a 3,000-square-foot (280 m²) arts heart was added to accommodate educational programs for local schoolchildren and their families.^[16] Offset on March 29, 2012, the museum ceased charging admission for all days, whereas previously, admission was free on Fridays only.^[17]

Design [edit]

The museum is located at the northeast corner of 165th Street and the M Concourse in the Concourse neighborhood of the South Bronx, slightly northeast of Yankee Stadium.^{[9] [14]} The building was originally the Young State of israel Synagogue, or Immature Israel of the Concourse,^{[v] [nine]} synthetic from 1959 to 1961 and designed by Ukrainian-built-in Simon B. Zelnick.^{[5] [ix] [10] [14]} The building was converted into a museum space in the early 1980s using concrete, steel and glass, at the cost of $2 million.^{[ix] [ten] [14]}

The 1988 expansion was designed by Castro-Blanco, Piscioneri & Feder, who renovated the edifice exterior with black granite and metal, added large continuous "ribbon windows" on the facade, and built a three-story drinking glass atrium at ane of the corners, which serves as the museum anteroom.^{[5] [9] [11] [ane] [fourteen] [18] [19]} The 1988 pattern has been described as "awkward"^[11] and "darksome"^[14] with "cramped balconies" and a cornerside entrance that give information technology a "suburban mall" feel.^[11] It has as well been criticized due to its lack of exhibition space.^{[11] [14] [20]}

The "Accordion"-designed 2006 addition.

The 2006 expansion at 1046 Grand Concourse was designed by Miami-based architecture firm Arquitectonica, which added the three-story North Fly building next to the original construction. It features a larger entrance with a two-story lobby, a new gallery and enhanced educational facilities.^{[v] [9] [15] [11] [xviii]} The outer design uses a "pleated aluminum facade" in contemporary Art Deco/Art Moderne style. It consists of seven irregularly-shaped vertical aluminum pieces connected by fritted drinking glass, resembling an accordion or paper fan.^{[five] [11] [twenty] [21]} The side of the structure features blackness and white concrete blocks organized in geometric patterns, similar to the brick facades of rowhouses and commercial buildings in the Bronx.^{[5] [14] [twenty] [22]} These walls are temporary, designed to exist removed in the outcome of hereafter expansion, which would replace the original museum with a residential loftier-rise building.^{[five] [20] [21] [22]} At the rear of the structure on the 2nd floor is a sculpture garden.^[23] This new expansion has been described as "a white box with raw physical floors" that, although "institutional," serves its purpose of being accessible to all visitors.^{[11] [14]}

In 2016, the museum announced that it is starting a $25 million program to renovate and expand and well equally plant a $ten million endowment. The plan will be overseen past builder Monica Ponce de Leon and has received $7 million from the mayor Pecker de Blasio'due south office. The rest of the funds are expected to be raised privately. The outset role of the renovation is planned to exist completed by 2020.^[24]

Exhibitions [edit]

In 1986, the museum began "A Decade of En Foco" with the exhibition, "En Foco Documentation Portfolio N1, The New York Puerto Rican Experience." In this series of exhibitions, the Bronx Museum of the Arts showcased works past artists in the En Foco organization, a group of photographers who work to promote the work of Hispanic artists. The series of exhibitions ended in 1986.^[25]

In 1987, the museum gained attention for two loftier-contour exhibitions: a career retrospective of African American artist Romare Bearden^[26] and a presentation of the then-evolving schoolhouse of computer-generated art.^[27] More recent exhibitions take included the 2006 presentation "Tropicalia: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture"^[15] and the 2008 overview of street-level photography by Jamel Shabazz, a Harlem-based artist.^[28]

In 2013, the museum won a competition to represent the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale; the museum commissioned "Triple Signal", an installation by artist Sarah Sze.^[29]

From 2015 to 2016, the museum held a retrospective of Martin Wong's career entitled Martin Wong: Human Instamatic.^[30]

In 2016, the museum featured the exhibition "Mask" past lensman Frank Gimpaya who collaborated with the En Foco organisation for the exhibition. The exhibition was inspired by "The Veil" by Georges Seurat and was an try to celebrate the work of Gimpaya and a new-era for the En Foco group.^[31]

The museum annually hosts "The Artist in the Marketplace" program where a panel of art professionals select artists to participate in the program. The aim of the program is to allow emerging artists a networking opportunity. The program ends with an exhibition in the Bronx Museum of the Arts.^[32]

Management [edit]

The museum's founding is credited to Irma Bit who created the museum to try to reverse the turn down of the S Bronx. She was a fellow member of the Bronx Council of the Arts.^[33]

In 2006, Holly Block became the museum's director. She was previously the executive director of Art in General, a nonprofit organization in New York City,^[15] and replaced Olivia Georgia.^[15] One of Block'due south most known decisions as managing director was to make access at the museum free in 2012, post-obit which the museum has quadrupled attendance.^[24]

In 2011, museum officials also put together a council of residents to serve every bit "cultural ambassadors" to the community and to advise them on public engagement.^[34]

In July 2018, Deborah Cullen began every bit the manager of the museum. Previously, the position had been vacant due to the death of former director Holly Block in 2017. Cullen previously worked equally the director and chief curator at the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. Deborah Cullen departed in 2019.

The board appointed former deputy managing director, Klaudio Rodriguez as interim manager in Dec 2019. Rodriguez came to the Bronx Museum in 2017 from the Frost Art Museum at Florida International Academy. In November 2020 he became executive director.^[35]

The museum has a $2.8 million operating budget. Once supported nigh entirely by government funding, information technology is now funded mainly past corporations, foundations and private donors.^[34] The museum is typically able to spend $ten,000 to $50,000 a year for acquisitions, and it receives donations and bequests of work.^[36] In 2013, information technology completed a entrada to raise $1 million for a new acquisitions fund that will focus on buying the works of contemporary artists with stiff connections to the Bronx.^[37] The museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.^[38]

Run into also [edit]

• List of fine art museums
• List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

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External links [edit]

• Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Museum_of_the_Arts