Nicolás Dumit Estévez, The Flag, 2003-2006, various dimensions performance art/installation / Photo: María Alós / Courtesy of Nicolás

#COLLECTION / Explore the highlights of the El Museo’s Permanent collection on the Bloomberg Connects App @bloombergconnects, including audio by artists Elia Alba @asahinyc, Juan Sanchez @guaninsanchez, Nicolás Dumit Estévez @interiorbeautysalon, and more! To download the app, click HERE

El Museo’s permanent collection offers an in-depth perspective on Latino art and visual culture in the U.S.. Latin America, and the Caribbean. Raging from pre-Columbian to modern and contemporary art, the collection, totaling more than 8,000 objects, is a unique cultural resource that reflects the institution’s decolonized and diasporic history ethos, which since its founding in 1969, has envisioned three main cultures–Amerindian, African, and European–as the basis of visual cultures in the Americas.  

In an effort to create dialogues across histories, media, traditions, and other categorizations, the permanent collection has been re-envisioned into six evolving thematic sections, which include: Urban Experiences, Expanded Graphics, African and Indigenous Heritages, Craft Intersection, Women Artists, and Representing Latinx. With many of the artworks echoing across sections, such groupings represent a new approach to the range of typologies that constitute El Museo’s collection, which reflects the full diversity of Latino art. 

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