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Featured in The Harold<\/em> printed newsletter: Issue 1 – Fall 2018<\/a><\/h3>\n
\"Tropical<\/a>
Tropical Contrast | Punta Salinas, Puerto\u00a0Rico \u2014 A contrast on\u00a0the Punta Salinas road,\u00a0a few miles outside\u00a0San Juan, Puerto Rico,\u00a0as the great guns\u00a0with which the U.S. is\u00a0fortifying the island
pass the humble ox\u00a0cart of a Puerto Rican\u00a0\u201cJibaro\u201d (mountain\u00a0man). Credit line\u00a0(ACME) 1-12-40.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Currently on view in the gallery, Pablo Delano\u2019s conceptual art installation, The Museum of the Old Colony<\/em>, uses reproduced materials and curatorial approaches familiar from traditional historical and anthropological museums (such as walls painted \u201cimperial gray\u201d!). Delano aims to critique the role of photography, archives, and museums in constructing problematic narratives and images of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, and in naturalizing the socioeconomic and military exploitation of the island by the United States since 1898. The gallery context provides a place for shifting those narratives and engaging in important conversations.<\/p>\n

What’s in a name?<\/h2>\n

The Museum of the Old Colony<\/em> takes its name, in part, from a U.S. brand of soft drink called Old Colony, popular in Puerto Rico since the 1950s. Old Colony (the beverage) is available at
\nisland groceries and restaurants in two flavors: grape and pineapple. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico has endured 523 years of colonial rule \u2014 first under Spain, now under the United States. The island, officially defined as an \u201cunincorporated territory of the United States,\u201d is widely regarded as the world\u2019s oldest colony.<\/p>\n

Come see this fascinating exhibit; <\/a>
\nextended programming runs through November.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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