Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025 New York Performances

Now on view at El Museo del Barrio, *Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021–2025* presents works newly added to the museum’s collection, tracing how contemporary artists and earlier voices enter an institution’s record of the city. The title nods to everyday gathering and social time, framing art as something made in conversation with community. In New York, where Puerto Rican and broader Latinx cultural histories are often contested or flattened, these acquisitions make that history harder to ignore. One quiet implication lands: collecting is also editing the future.