Artist Candida Alvarez's Five-Decade Career on Display at El Museo del Barrio

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 20, 2025

Puerto Rican artist Candida Alvarez emerged in the New York art scene of the late 1970s, when it was dominated by white men. She talks about her five-decade career, her new gallery show at GRAY, and first large-scale museum survey, "Circle, Point, Hoop," on view at El Museo del Barrio through Sunday, Aug. 3.

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