Honorees (Left to Right): Esteban Cortazar, Excellence in Fashion; Marta Minujín, Excellence in the Arts; César Reyes, Outstanding Patron of the Arts; and Maestro Julio Reyes Copello, Cultural Pioneer.
MAY 10, 2018 | THE PLAZA HOTEL | NEW YORK CITY
New York, NY, March 15, 2018 - On Thursday, May 10, 2018, El Museo del Barrio will
celebrate their 25th annual Gala at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. The Gala is the
Museum’s single most important fundraising event of the year, raising essential support for the Museum’s ever-expanding Permanent Collection, acclaimed exhibitions, innovative programs, and renowned bilingual education initiatives. This spectacular event brings together over 500 luminaries from the worlds of fashion, entertainment, business, society, and politics, all in support of the Museum’s mission. Funds raised at the Gala enable the Museum to further promulgate the cultural impact and legacy of Latinos and Latin Americans.
This year, El Museo’s 2018 Gala will be honoring the brilliance and pioneering spirit of: fashion designer Esteban Cortazar; artist Marta Minujín; art patron César Reyes; and music producer Maestro Julio Reyes Copello.
Past honorees of El Museo del Barrio’s annual Gala include acclaimed Cuban artist Carmen Herrera; fashion and design power-couple Ruben and Isabel Toledo; Jumex Collection founder Eugenio López Alonso; tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo; Latin music duo Gloria and Emilio Estefan; and Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda. MetLife Foundation; Time Warner, Inc.; Ford Foundation; and MAC Cosmetics have previously been celebrated as corporate philanthropic honorees.
EL MUSEO GALA 2018 HONOREES
ESTEBAN CORTAZAR, Excellence in Fashion
Born in Bogota, Colombia in May 1984, Esteban Cortazar is a Paris-based designer. His distinctive style pays homage to his Latin heritage and combines it with French craftsmanship and feminine structure. Referred to by Vogue as “the most uninhibited designer showing in Paris” Cortazar’s collections are found in the most prestigious online retailers, department stores and luxury boutiques. Most recently, the President of Colombia named Cortazar an official ambassador of the arts for the country.
MARTA MINUJÍN, Excellence in the Arts
One of Argentina’s most prominent contemporary artists, Marta Minujín is best known for producing conceptual and participatory events. Beginning her career in Paris, Minujín later moved to New York, where she befriended Andy Warhol, whose influence can be seen in her works that satirize consumer culture. One of her best-known works from those years, Minuphone (1967), invited viewers to enter a telephone booth, dial a number, and watch as
sounds and colors projected from the glass panels, while a television screen on the floor displayed the caller’s face. In 1983, following the return of democracy to Argentina, Minujín created a monument to freedom of expression, The Parthenon of Books (1983), in which a structure built of newly unbanned books was erected in the middle of a Buenos Aires thoroughfare; after it was dismantled, the books were distributed to the public. Throughout her practice Minujín explores the value of participation in the redefinition of art’s purpose.
CÉSAR REYES, Outstanding Patron of the Arts
Since the 1990s, the Puerto Rican collector and psychiatrist César Reyes and his wife, Mimi,
have established themselves as exceptionally savvy collectors of art in an international scope. Reyes who began collecting while working at Royal Bethlehem Hospital in London (right on the cusp of the Y.B.A. moment) has amassed important holdings by Peter Doig, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Elizabeth Peyton, Enoc Perez, Jorge Pardo, among other artists.
MAESTRO JULIO REYES COPELLO, Cultural Pioneer
Born in Colombia, multi-Grammy award winner Maestro Julio Reyes Copello is considered the most influential Pop Producer of Latin Music in the last 15 years by Billboard Magazine. Reyes Copello has worked with some of the most talented and renowned voices of the Latin Music industry as a producer, composer, and pianist, like Alejandro Sanz, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, Il Divo, Diego Torres, Nelly Furtado, Kany Garcia, Jennifer Lopez, and many others, who recurrently seek him for his unique ability to give music a dimension that arises from a combination of talent, classical education and deep sensibility. His prolific career has earned him 5 Grammy and Latin Grammy awards, more than 21 nominations including Producer of the Year in 2010 and 2013, multiple number one hits on Billboard lists and 10 ASCAP honors.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Maria Eugenia Maury, Chair | Pablo J. Fárias, 1st Vice Chair | Claudia Marmolejo, 2nd Vice
Chair I Alfonso Barros, Treasurer I Christine Miller Martin, Secretary I Tony Bechara, Chair
Emeritus | Angela Cabrera | Manuel Camelo Hernandez | Doris A. Casap | Alejandra Castro
Rioseco | Agustín Coppel Luken | Moisés Cosío Espinosa | Juan Domingo Beckmann
Ella Fontanals Cisneros | Michel Goguikian | Veronica Gonzalez Powell | Myriam Guadalupe
De la Vega | Javier Lumbreras | Maria Martinez de la Cruz | Maria Teresa Mata | Jeffrey
Mercado | Clarice Oliveira Tavares | Ramiro Ortiz Mayorga | Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza | Renata
Paula | Pedro Pedraza | Yolanda Santos | Stanley T. Stairs | Monica Vidal
GALA 2018 CHAIRS
Tony Bechara | Maria & Alberto de la Cruz | William A. Haseltine | Maria Eugenia Maury |
Clarice Oliveira Tavares
ABOUT EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
El Museo del Barrio, New York's leading Latino cultural institution welcomes visitors of all backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American cultures. Their richness is represented in El Museo's wide-ranging Permanent Collection and critically acclaimed exhibitions, complemented by film, literary, visual and performing arts series, cultural celebrations, and educational programs.
El Museo del Barrio is located at 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104 Street in New York City. The Museum’s Galleries are currently undergoing renovations and will reopen to the public in the fall of 2018. For more information on these and other renovations, visit www.elmuseo.org.
For more information on El Museo del Barrio, please visit www.elmuseo.org. To connect with El Museo del Barrio via Social Media, follow us on Facebook at Facebook.com/elmuseo, Instagram at Instagram.com/elmuseo, and Twitter at Twitter.com/elmuseo.
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