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Unwind after work and spend your Thursday evening at El Museo del Barrio with an intimate gallery conversation featuring artists and thinkers who share their personal perspectives on works on view in Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island, and Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025. These informal talks invite you to slow down, look closely, and connect more deeply with the artwork in an informal setting.
The final conversation in this February series will be led by María A. Cabrera Arús, a sociologist and instructor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Arús studies the politics of fashion and material culture and collects artifacts, clothing, and memorabilia from post-1959 Cuba. Her work connects Cold War–era material politics to contemporary meanings, including how artifacts of that period resonate today in Cuba and within diasporic communities. She will guide participants through selected works from Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island.
Please note: El Museo will stay open late every Thursday in February, until 8:00 PM. Come early, enjoy the exhibitions at your own pace, and then join us for the gallery conversation from 6:30–7:30 PM. This program is designed as an interactive, guided experience in the galleries and has limited capacity. Advance registration is recommended. Please register here. >
María A. Cabrera Arús has a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is an instructor in Gallatin School of Individualized Study, at New York University. She studies the politics of fashion and material culture and collects artifacts, clothing, and memorabilia from post-1959 Cuba. She has published and curated exhibitions on aspects of Cuban socialist material culture, and most recently contributed chapters for The New Latin American Fashion Reader (Bloomsbury, 2025) and El eco de las cosas: Los años ochenta en la colección Cuba Material (Rialta, 2025). Her book Dressed for the Party: Fashion and Politics in Cuba, 1959–1989 is under contract with Bloomsbury.