Last Chance!: DOMESTICANX and Elso at El Museo

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 1, 2023

This week hear about some soon-to-close art shows around town. Today: Susanna Temkin, curator at El Museo del Barrio, talks about the shows at El Museo de Barrio closing March 26th -- DOMESTICANX, Juan Francisco Elso: Por América, and Reynier Leyva Novo: Methuselah.

→El Museo offers tours of the exhibitions on Saturdays and Sundays at 1pm and 2:30 pm.(free with admission).

→Register for the 3/16 virtual launch party for the publication of the monograph Juan Francisco Elso: Essays on América [Juan Franciso Elso: Ensayos sobre América], the first bi-lingual study of his work.

Juan Francisco Elso, Por América (José Martí), 1986, wood, plaster, earth, pigment, synthetic hair, and glass eyes, 56.75 x 17.25 x 18.25 in
(Ron Amstutz/Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC)

  

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