Contributors to Magazine share their wishes for 2021, from honest reckonings to immortality.
Dec 29, 2020
As we leave a very difficult 2020 behind, we’re grateful to have had so many incredible voices as part of Magazine, and for the places their words, ideas, images, and music have taken us. We asked some of our contributors to share a wish for 2021 in a form of their choosing; something they’re looking forward to, something they hope for, or something they’d like to see. Their responses below show the connections we still find through art and the uninhibited dancing in a crowd we still seek.
Arlene Dávila: A national museum for Latinos is long overdue
(Librado Romero | The New York Times) Pepón Osorio was one of many Latinx artists who began their career exhibiting in museums like El Museo del Barrio.
By Arlene Dávila | For The New York Times
  | Dec. 26, 2020, 1:30 a.m.
On Monday, Congress authorized the creation of a Latino museum as part of a $2.3-trillion year-end spending bill. This is long overdue. For decades, activists have been fighting to establish a Latino museum on the Washington Mall. Its creation is essential to documenting the communityâs contribution and to the education and future of all Americans.
The Studio Museum in Harlem s annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition on view at MoMA PS1
This Longing Vessel: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 201920, MoMA PS1 December 10, 2020March 14, 2021. Photo: Kris Graves.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY
.- The Studio Museum in Harlems annual Artist-in-Residence exhibition is on view at MoMA PS1, moving this presentation outside the Studio Museums walls for the second time as part of a multiyear partnership with the Museum of Modern Art and PS1. This Longing Vessel features new work by the 201920 cohort of the Studio Museums signature residency programartists E. Jane (b. 1990, Bethesda, MD), Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA), and Elliot Reed (b. 1992, Milwaukee, WI)whose artistic practices span new media, performance, and painting. With a title that suggests radical intimacy, a vessel to hold and to be held by, this exhibition presents the intersection between queerness and Blackness as a waypoint to yearn from, reach toward,
A monument highlighting our contributions may finally become reality.
By Arlene Dávila
Ms. Dávila is the author of “Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics,” which explores the lack of visibility for Latinx art and artists at institutions.
Dec. 22, 2020
Pepón Osorio was one of many Latinx artists who began their career exhibiting in museums like El Museo del Barrio.Credit.Librado Romero/The New York Times
On Monday, Congress authorized the creation of a Latino museum as part of a $2.3-trillion year-end spending bill. This is long overdue. For decades, activists have been fighting to establish a Latino museum on the Washington Mall. Its creation is essential to documenting the community’s contribution and to the education and future of all Americans.