Free Art for All: the Annual Museum Mile Festival Returns to Fifth Avenue Tomorrow
- The Curious Uptowner
- Jun 17, 2024
- 2 min read
The 46th Annual Museum Mile Festival—one of the city's best free cultural events—returns to the streets of East Harlem and the Upper East Side tomorrow, June 18 from 6pm to 9m.
Running along Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 110th Streets, this major block party features free admission to eight major museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Neue Galerie, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, The Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and The Africa Center.
Each museum will also have its own programming, including live performances and more.
If you're planning to start in East Harlem and work your way south, highlights include:
1280 Fifth Ave at E 110th St
Free admission to two new exhibitions: "Except this time nothing returns from the ashes", a short film and exhibition exploring African identity and historical memory by Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed, and "I Hope This Helps," a multi-sensory exhibition by Harlem-based artist Samiya Bashir.
1230 Fifth Ave between E 104th and E 105th Sts
Free tours of the retrospective of Chicana artist Amalia Mesa-Bains, known for her large-scale altares (home altars) and ofrendas (offerings to the dead), and a survey of performance artist Carlos Martiel's work exploring race, labor and migration. Plus: outdoor artmaking activities and live music from Osmay Calvo and his band.
1220 Fifth Ave between E 103rd and E 104th Sts
Free entry to the new exhibition "Changing the Face of Democracy: Shirley Chisholm at 100" and the centennial exhibition "This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture." Also look for family-friendly activities with partner Cool Culture.
Plus, don't mis:
1000 Fifth Ave at E 82nd St
Stop by the Met's silent dance party, play games on the plaza and listen to live mariachi. Plus, don't miss free entry to "The Harlem Renasissance and Transatlantic Modernism," the long-overdue exhibition shining the spotlight on Black artists who portrayed life in Harlem during the flourishing early years of the Great Migration (1920s-1940s).
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