{"id":3081,"date":"2016-03-01T19:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2016-03-01T23:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T23:45:46","slug":"el-museo-del-barrio-kicks-off-new-york-arts-week-with-pre-gala-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/el-museo-del-barrio-kicks-off-new-york-arts-week-with-pre-gala-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"El Museo Del Barrio kicks off New York Arts Week With Pre-Gala Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elmuseo.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Museo del Barrio <\/a>hosted a glamorous kick-off at <a href=\"http:\/\/omar-nyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OMAR&#8217;s<\/a> in honor of their Gala taking place on May 12th. Guests included Gala Chairs\u00a0Maria Eugenia Maury and Narciso Rodriguez, Gala honorees\u00a0Ruben &amp; Isabel Toledo and Omar Hernandez, owner of OMAR&#8217;s,\u00a0who generously donated the space for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3086\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3086\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840482_1907788.jpg\" alt=\"Mauricio Padilha, Corey Tippin, Kyle Farmery, Roger Padilha\" width=\"549\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840482_1907788.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840482_1907788-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840482_1907788-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840482_1907788-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840482_1907788-320x215.jpg 320w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840482_1907788-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauricio Padilha, Corey Tippin, Kyle Farmery, Roger Padilha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Garza-Bueron, the Young Gala Chair spoke to AZ about the gala, saying, &#8220;I am excited about this year&#8217;s gala because it will be inspired by\u00a0the Antonio Lopez exhibition, which means it will be epic, fun, unique and fashion filled. It&#8217;s the epitome of the Latin America culture and its impact on our society. We have an outstanding team working so hard to make this event unforgettable and successful, and as you can see, we are already having the best time. No one throws a party better than the Latins, and our galas live to that standard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The museum&#8217;s\u00a0annual gala will take place on May 12th at The Plaza Hotel, in tribute to Antonio Lopez, the\u00a0late fashion illustrator whose exhibition will open at the museum this summer (June 14-Nov. 26).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3085\" style=\"width: 548px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3085\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840461_1907786.jpg\" alt=\"Narciso Rodriguez, Isabel Toledo, Ruben Toledo\" width=\"548\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840461_1907786.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840461_1907786-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840461_1907786-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BFA_1456840461_1907786-1024x704.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Narciso Rodriguez, Isabel Toledo, Ruben Toledo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, El Museo del Barrio hosted a glamorous kick-off <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}