Category: press
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Fish Parade celebrates 20th anniversary
Community members turned out for the return of Hunts Point’s annual Fish Parade on Saturday. In turn, they got to enjoy food vendors, dance performances and arts activities.
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Fish Parade on Bronxnet
Rhina speaks to The POINT CDC’S Artist in Residency Hatuey Ramos-Fermin as they discuss The 20th Annual Fish Parade highlighting environmental awareness, and community advocacy within The Bronx.
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The Nonprofit That Puts Art Inside Laundromats (And Wherever Else People Are)
Originally posted at Next City, written by Emily Nonko Risë Wilson developed the concept behind The Laundromat Project in the late 1990s while attending graduate school at New York University and living…
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Saying Goodbye to Essex Street Market with Art
The end is nigh. With no Hercules in sight, the multi-headed Hydra better known as Essex Crossing is erasing memories all over the place. In an effort to assuage the…
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Parade of Perseverance
El Museo prepares for 41st Annual Three Kings Day Parade Story by Gregg McQueen Parade of PerseveranceDesfile de la perseverancia Four decades later, the three kings (and queens) still reign. The East…
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Bronx Artist Asks Visitors to Share Their ‘Sites of Struggle’ On NYC Map
By Eddie Small For DNAInfo CONCOURSE — A Bronx artist wants to hear about your struggles. Artist Hatuey Ramos Fermín has set up an interactive map of the city as part…
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Artists in the Marketplace at the Bronx Museum
BY MOSTAFA HEDDAYA for Blouin Artinfo The Bronx Museum of the Arts has long distinguished itself by its commitment to the communities that surround it, with its three-and-a-half decade…
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The Young Lords’ Radical Agenda and the Problems that Persist
by Vic Vaiana for Hyperallergic The Bronx Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, and Loisaida Inc. are exhibiting the work of the artists and activists in the Young Lords Party…
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When the Young Lords Were Outlaws in New York
by Holland Cotter for the New York Times On July 26, 1969, a group of young Latinos stood in the band shell in Tompkins Square Park, in the East Village,…
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Revisiting a heated chapter of Bx history
By Shant Shahrigian for the Riverdale Press A large banner with an AK-47 silhouetted in front of a cutout of the Puerto Rican flag greets visitors to the Bronx Museum…
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Emerging artists take the Bronx
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The Art and Activism of the Young Lords
Three New York City venues look back at the Puerto Rican nationalist group By MARK ARMAO for the Wall Street Journal When garbage started piling up on East Harlem sidewalks in…
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Artists respond to call from the Bronx
Work by more than 70 emerging artists from across New York featured in Bronx Calling by VICTORIA STAPLEY-BROWN for The Art Newspaper Twice each year, 18 emerging artists living in the…
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Marchers demand cleaner air, healthier food
By Rachel Brown for the Hunts Point Express Dozens of Hunts Point residents marched with nearly 400,000 demonstrators in the People’s Climate March in Manhattan this past Sunday, calling on…
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‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Turn Grand Concourse Into Thoroughfare for Recreation
By: Erin Clarke for NY1 Link to original article and video A popular event from the past is being revived that will close the Grand Concourse for three days this…
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Community leaders looking to restore Bronx tradition by bringing ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Concourse Village
Bronx organizers and business leaders hope to bring ‘Boogie on the Boulevard’ to Grand Concourse nearly two decades after the pedestrian-friendly event was axed by Giuliani administration BY JOEY SCARBOROUGH / NEW…
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A Bronx Blast From the Past: Car-Free Grand Concourse Gets CB 4 Support
by Stephen Miller for Streetsblog It’s been an on-again, off-again tradition for at least two decades: Turning the center lanes of the Grand Concourse into a car-free space for stress-free walking, biking…
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WADE IN THE WATER AT BRONX RIVER ART CENTER
http://www.bronxnet.org/plugins/hwdvs-videoplayer/jwflv_html5/player.swf Hautey Ramos from Bronx River Art Center is back to discuss the Waterfront event happening at Bronx River Art Center.
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Guest Lesson | Thinking Critically About Food in a Season of Plenty
By Suzie Boss for the Learning Network of the New York Times Go to related article » This is the second post in a series in which the education writer Suzie Boss suggests…
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How Do Supermarkets Decide Where to Open?
A funky, fresh look at how supermarkets work in urban neighborhoods By CUP for Gilt Taste Last year, we shared a fantastic video made by high school students on the food in…
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Bienal de Arte en el Bronx
Por: EFE para Telemundo Más de 75 artistas participan en la Tercera Bienal de Arte Latinoamericano en El Bronx, que se realiza bajo el tema de “correlación ilusoria” en un…
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2 BX artists bring ‘Mind the Gap’ project to Mott Haven
2 BX artists bring ‘Mind the Gap’ project to Mott Haven by Bornx News 12 MOTT HAVEN – Two Bronx residents have launched a project in an attempt to bridge the…
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Mott Haven artists transform laundromat into interactive art site
By Patrick Wall for DNAinfo MOTT HAVEN — With its rumbling dryers and stinging smell of detergent, the Blue and White Laundromat on East 140th Street is a fine place…
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‘Paradise’ Boosts Bronx Arts Scene
By Sarah Ramirez for Norwood News The success of this spring’s “This Side of Paradise” exhibit, which took place at the Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse, has people…
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An ‘Art of the 5’ shout-out!
By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews At the center of the “Art of the 5: A Shout Out to the Bronx” exhibit at the galleries of the Interchurch Center…
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Art show at Bronx Museum curated by local teens features artworks also by area teens
By Tanyanika Samuels / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS When “The Other I” art exhibit opens Thursday at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, it will be a triumph not only for the…
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This Side of a Postmodern Paradise: No Longer Empty in the Andrew Freedman Home
By Caroline Bauer for Untapped Cities The two-month run of This Side of Paradise, the much celebrated exhibit by No Longer Empty, is quickly coming to a close. Last minute viewers have…
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Public Art Review: Taking it to the Streets
by Jules Rochielle for Public Art Review, Food for Thought Issue “Artists hit the road using creativity, communication, and food to address social issues.” This issue explores the theme of Food…
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The Serrano Report, Vol. IX, #11
In the Bronx Unveiling Pro-Immigrant Art Made from Anti-Immigrant Bricks Jose Serrano’s Newsletter reports Last Saturday, Congressman Serrano joined Hostos Community College President Dr. Félix Matos Rodríguez, community leaders, and…
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“Wall of Hope” artwork at Hostos Community College
By TANYANIKA SAMUELS for the New York Daily News Hundreds of bricks once used as anti-immigrant messages are finding a new artistic purpose in one of the borough’s most diverse communities.…
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Immigration Opponents’ Bricks Repurposed For A Respectful Bronx Artwork
By: Natasha Ghoneim for NY1 Immigration reform inspires passionate views, and hundreds of bricks sent to members of Congress to oppose amnesty have now formed a pro-immigrant artistic installation at…
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Un muro de tolerancia se alza en el Bronx.
POR: Carolina Ledezma / EDLP El Bronx.- En 2006, grupos antiinmigrantes se unieron para enviar a congresistas en Washington más de 20,000 ladrillos con consignas en pro de la construcció…
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Bill Aguado discusses upcoming “Conversing Bricks” Art Installation by Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
Bill Aguado discusses upcoming “Conversing Bricks” Art Installation by Hatuey Ramos-Fermin at Bronxnet
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This Side of Paradise
Rebecca Rothberg for Whitehot Magazine The conflicted protagonists in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels, Amory Blaine of This Side of Paradise (literary inspiration for the title of No Longer Empty’s exhibition) and Jay Gatsby…
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A 5-year exhibition kicks off with a ‘Shout Out from the Bronx’
by TANYANIKA SAMUELS for the NY Daily News After losing her job, artist Melissa Calderón took out her grandmother’s sewing box and channeled her frustrations into embroidery. After losing her job, artist…
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This Side of Paradise: A Bronx Art and Culture Hub
by Christine Licata for Artlog Through June 1, the once insular and exclusive Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx has been transformed by site-specific exhibition facilitatorsNo Longer Empty into This Side of…
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Cyclists Plan a Month-Long Celebration of Bronx Biking for May
by Patrick Wall for DNAinfo GRAND CONCOURSE — Waves of helmeted cyclists could come rolling down the Grand Concourse next month as part of a project meant to draw attention to…
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…de la Trienal Poli/Gráfica: El Panal/TheHive y un contrapunto
por Julieta Muñoz para la revista Cruce “[N]uestra premisa es que la actitud apropiada es una apertura inteligente ante las manifestaciones del arte contemporáneo que implican una saludable sacudida frente…
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Works by 32 artists show borough’s many sides at Freedman Home
By Amora McDaniel for the Hunts Point Express Once known as the “home for poor millionaires,” an elegant mansion on the Grand Concourse has burst to glittering life as the home…
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ArtistS of the Week: Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
By Cathleen Cueto for Swings and Arrows My dear friends Elizabeth Hamby and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, two Bronx-based multimedia artists, are gearing up for a couple of fantastic projects this month. First,…
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Uptown Palazzo Project
By RANDY KENNEDY for the NY Times When the Andrew Freedman Home opened in the Bronx in 1924, it looked like a limestone luxury liner sailing up the Grand Concourse, a grandiosity…
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“HIP-HOP: THEN, NOW & TOMORROW,” PANEL on News 12
The second Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC) roundtable was moderated by Bill Aguado of the Bronx Music Heritage Center with guests: Patty Dukes and Reph Starr of Circa 95, Steven…
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Bill Aguado, Bronx Music Heritage Center
The Shifting Communities Exhibition Series at the Bronx River Arts Center highlights the initiatives in culture and the arts that are currently instilled in American society. One of the goals…
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Share, Where? at Newtown Creek
Check out congresswoman Nydia Velázquez and EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck touring Newtown Creek with CUP’s latest youth education project “Share, Where?” The booklet takes a look at NYC’s Fair…
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NYFA Immigrant Artist Project Newsletter
Transmit – Transit is a multimedia installation at “The (S) Files 2011.” One aspect of the piece is a video of interviews with Dominican cab drivers and dispatchers in the…
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ArtNexus Review of the Group Show The (S) Files 2011
ArtNexus ssue #82 01/09/2011 United States, New York Institution:El Museo del Barrio by: Raúl Díaz El Museo del Barrio with venues at Chashama at the Donnell, Socrates Sculpture Park…
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The People’s Potluck at Taller Boricua Gallery
On Thursday, July 14th, I was invited to share an evening of food, friendship, and conversation at The People’s Potluck, a collaborative dinner and discussion group exploring ideas concerning living…
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Love Thy Neighbor – East Harlem Community Supported Kitchen (CSK)
Eating healthy is easy if you have the know how and means (money and availability to healthy food) to do it.
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Review of EAst Harlem by Hatuey Ramos Fermin, The Barri-O-Rama Exhibit
The East Harlem Community Supported Kitchen Dinner ran in conjunction with the Barri-O-Rama exhibit at the Taller Boricua Gallery,
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El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011
The “(S)” in this exhibition’s title stands for “Street,” and the show celebrates the “hood”—whether in East Harlem or El Salvador. Featuring the work of 75 Latino, Caribbean and Latin…
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WNYC mentions Transmit – Transit
WNYC art critic Carolina A. Miranda included Transmit – Transit as part of the must see at El Museo del Barrio’s S-Files Biennial. Quote from her article: “One of the…
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Reports of art scene’s death are exaggerated
Artists say change defines their relationship with Mott Haven Hatuey Ramos Fermin sits in the most famous apartment in Mott Haven, recording a podcast called “South Bronx Filter.” Fermin is…
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Barri-o-rama Hatuey Ramos Fermín
El artista plástico puertorriqueño Hatuey Ramos Fermín caminó por todas las calles de El Barrio en la ciudad de Nueva York tomando fotos de cada uno de los sitios donde…
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Conversation Series Launches in Mott Haven
A local artist has developed a new way for people all over the country to stay on top of what’s happening in the Bronx. From artist Blanka Amezkua’s former Bronx…
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A Tightly Knit and Diverse Arts Scene Grows in the Bronx
Artist and educator Hatuey Ramos Fermin moved to the Bronx in 2007 to jump-start his career in New York after completing his studies in the Netherlands. An enticing mix of…
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Drawings by Mexican Artist, Aurelio Del Muro On Display
Coqui Mexicano, who is not just a restaurant in Melrose but a local cultural institution, will be hosting, “Drawings From the Story, “¿Un Anhelo?” – Aurelio Del Muro.” The exhibit…
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Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Battle Draws Fresh Voices
Last week, fifteen Bronx high school students added their voices to the volatile mix of dialogue over the redevelopment of the Kingsbridge Armory, a former National Guard ammunitions warehouse in…
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Dispatching Art In Real Time
On speaking with Fermín, he explained to me his early encounters of using cab services when he arrived in the Bronx. These encounters initiated his idea for Transmit-Transit.
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A Playful Take on Serious Matters: The Center for Urban Pedagogy
By Rebecka Gordan for [ polis ] blog: Collecting my thoughts after six months as an architectural reporter in New York City, one of my most memorable encounters was undoubtedly with the Center…
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Los taxis de NY que no son amarillos en Diálogo Digital
La vida de un taxista. Cuántas veces alguien se detiene a pensar en la cotidianidad de ese conductor (o conductora) que lo lleva de un sitio a otro. Cómo es…
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Review and Interview with Hatuey Ramos Fermin
BY Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga for his blog Puerto Rican publication, Dialogo Digital ran a review and interview of “Transmit-Transit” Hatuey Ramos Fermin’s first solo show in NYC that I curated.…
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Blast from Mott Haven’s past recalls an artistic keystone
Hundreds of people pass by Third Avenue and 147th Street each day without a second glance at the storefronts that house a nail salon, a hair braiding salon and, hidden…
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A Cultural Hothouse in an Unlikely Locale
A Cultural Hothouse in an Unlikely Locale By David Gonzalez New York Times City Room Blog The notion of popular art must have seemed like a really hard sell in…
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Students Investigate Local Issues Through Service Learning
The final bell rings at the George Wingate Educational Campus, home to four Brooklyn public schools, and a handful of ninth-grade students trickle into a classroom for their after-school service-learning…
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I Have a Basement Apartment. Now What?
A group of students from Hostos Community College’s Now Program also set out on a project that focused on some illegal housing, the result of their work I HAVE A…
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Class Consciousness
Taraneh Fazeli on Night School for Artforum AN ANECDOTE FROM THE ART WORLD, though it could as easily have been a hostage scene from the sausage factory in Tout va bien, left…
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Looking 21 Years Ahead
Text and photos by Charles Rogers for the Canarsie Courier What will life in East New York be like in the year 2030? Students from a class being offered by…
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Making it in New York Immigrant Artists at the 60 Wall Street Gallery
Twenty artists from eleven nations. “Making It,” the current exhibition at Deutsche Bank’s 60 Wall Street Gallery, features works by participants in the 2008 NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists,…
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Immigrants Make Strides in NY Art World
Hatuey Ramos-Fermin, a Puerto-Rican conceptual artist, does not sell his work by the Metropolitan. Rather, he came to New York City because of a six-month mentoring program sponsored by the…
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Pedestrian
Art in Odd Places is taking over 14th Street: That means gold trash, mutilated stuffed animals and weirdo performance artists everywhere. We asked nine of them to explain their WTF…
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Art as Resistance
By: Marie-Theresa Hernández, PhD for DREAM ACT – TEXAS “A banana from my country can travel easier than me” says Benito Banana (alias Hatuey Ramos-Fermin) . Conceptual artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermin puts on a banana suit…
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Guiding Hands Help Immigrant Artist Connect
Something about the man in the banana costume appealed to Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga. Maybe it was the sign he wore that read, “A banana from my country can travel easier…
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Nuevas voces en la fotografía
En el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico estará desde el 9 de julio al 13 de agosto de 2006, la muestra: ‘Nuevas Voces en la Fotografía’. En la…
Hatuey Ramos Fermín 