Nueva York

Nueva York

The exhibition that I chose is named “Nueva York (1613-1945)” located in El
Museo Del Barrio organized by Mike Wallace and Marci Reaven in collaboration with
the New York historical society. The exhibition explores four centuries of the history of
New York City’s relations with Latinos and Spanish speaking countries and the
important role that they have played to help shape the New York City into the most
culturally city in the world. This unique exhibition covers four centuries of history since
the 1600’s when New Amsterdam serves as a base of the revolts between the Dutch
and the Spain vast empire through the 1945 when there was a large wave of migration
from Puerto Rico and the increase of other Caribbean and Latin American immigrants.
This exhibition portrayed through five galleries the long and deep interactions between
New York, Spain, the Caribbean and Latin America and its influence on shaping the
wider city's development; and they major mark on contemporary New York' commercial,
cultural, manufacturing, arts and financial arrangements.
The first gallery of the exhibition “Nueva York (1613-1945)” is based on the
theme of “Empires and Revolution” that begins in the 1620’s when the Dutch show
extreme hostility toward Spain’s vast empire and their long been in revolts. For
instance, this part of the exhibition portrayed the wealth of the Spanish empire and to
the taste for luxury goods in New Amsterdam’s rising middle class. Later the British
took New Amsterdam from the Dutch and renamed New York and the city became part
of a new would be empire. This first gallery also shows how the situation changed with
the American Revolution, when Spain became an ally, and the first small Spanish
colony was established in New York, along with the first erected Catholic church, St.
Peter that represented a significant step in the Spanish- New York relationship. One of
the most remarkable display of this...