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RITUALS OF CHAOS, OPEN HOUSE AT THE BRONX MUSEUM


By Howard Giske
n Friday evening, July 20th, the Bronx Museum celebrated the opening of new exhibits around the themes of style and urban design, from art to graffiti. The Rituals of Chaos exhibit will be on view through January 6, 2013. The Bronx Museum gave a free admission party with DJ music blasting, a kids activity corner, drinks and pretzels, with a large crowd enjoying the fun. In the lobby of the museum, a three-dimensional sculpture on the wall of a man with a mask and cans of spray paint demonstrated the interface between art and urban reality. In fact, children were given a chance to create their own graffiti tags on paper. Behind the lobby, a huge mural by Tats Cru is entitled Stop the War. The mural serves as a protest sign, and a mix of reality and fantasy, while also as a caricature of military fighters as comic book heroes. The Rituals of Chaos exhibition, named after Carlos Monsivais' book of the same title, takes the work of Mexicos renowned photojournalist, Enrique Metinides, as a departure point and complements it with the work of contemporary artists who also capture the human experience in the metropolis. Guest curator Monica Espinel organized Rituals of Chaos. Featured artists include: Enrique Metinides, Sophie Calle, Robin Graubard, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rick

Bronx Museum party, background Tats Cru mural Stop the War.
Liss, and Jamel Shabazz. The photo artist Jamel Shabazz looked for iconic New York images, including a man wrestling over an object with a pit bull. Its not clear if the dog is trying to grab a chain or a steak, or who is grabbing who, but it symbolizes the reality of urban struggle. Another exhibition is Bronx Lab: Style Wars, on view until June 2, 2013. Style Wars, a group exhibition about graffiti, includes painting, drawings, prints, sculpture, video and a sitespecific project. Artists featured are Henry Chalfant, Lady K. Fever, Keith Haring, Valeri Larko, Sofia Maldonado, La Pandilla, Rigoberto Torres, Lilly van der Stokker, and Tats Cru. Many of the

Work: Graffiti artists with spray paint.


associated artists use graffiti tags as part of otherwise realistic paintings. Style is usually determined by the people controlling media and communications, but Bronx Lab chooses an individualistic model of style. The Bronx erupted into graffiti in the 1970s with a so-called wild style, from the chaotic, blending to Disney-esque images. The wild style of making tags and of the graffiti artist splashing his or her brand on a wall has become another form of branding, in the corporate sense of creating consumer merchandise. The third exhibition opening is called Revolution Not Televised, which is on view through October 7, 2012, the title being a spoof of Gil Scott-Herons

Jamal Shabazz, Man and Dog (1980)-- Courtesy of the Bronx Museum.
famous song-poem, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. This exhibition features works by contemporary Cuban artists from the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection, and from private collections, with themes relating to personalities and politics. This is blazoned forth with the painting by Camilo Diaz de Villalvilla, Just Do It (2010), of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, with his portrait cut off at the bottom by a banner saying Just Do It. Che has become the symbiosis of hero, martyr, and commercial brand. The Bronx Museum is located at 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. For more info call (718) 681-6000 or visit www.bronxmuseum.org.

LINCOLN HOSPITAL RECEIVES NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY


incoln Medical and Mental Health Center recently received the prestigious Quest for Quality award from the American Hospital Association (AHA) for its leadership and innovation in quality improvement and safety. The South Bronxbased facility successfully demonstrated a commitment to providing patient-centered care focused on ground-breaking methods that improve safety and quality. The award is presented annually to honor leadership and innovation based on the Institute of Medicines (IOMs) six quality aimssafety, patient-centeredness, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness and equity. Lincoln is one of four hospitals selected this year from a nation-wide pool of 40 hospitals competing for the prize. Dr. Melissa Schori, Lincolns Chief Medical Officer, accepted the award during the annual AHA Health Forum Summit held today in San Francisco, California. At Lincoln Hospital, we have hardwired quality and patient safety within the culture of our organization. We are focused on all the right things that make a difference to patients and to staff: preventing infections, removing barriers to cancer screenings, and providing coordinated care from our primary care medical homes, said

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center awarded: Left, Michael Thomas, Director of Pharmacy; Abdul Mondul, MD, Patient Safety Officer; Melissa Schori, MD, Medical Director; and Carl Kirton, RN, Chief Nursing Executive.

Iris Jimenez-Hernandez, Lincoln Hospital Executive Director. We are proud to receive this award in recognition of our open culture of education, accountability, and our continuous quest for excellence. Hospitals know that one of the best ways to bring greater value to health care services is to improve the efficiency, safety, and effectiveness of the care they provide to patients and the community, said Rich Umbdenstock, AHA president and CEO. The hospitals we recognize today are using sustained efforts to achieve results that

enhance care for patients in their communities. This award recognizes that Lincoln is a high performing healthcare organization with an advanced clinical information system that leads to improved health outcomes through the use of clinical practice guidelines and available information across the continuum of care, said Melissa P. Schori, Lincoln Hospitals Chief Medical Officer. Commitment to patient centered healthcare delivery and collaborative team work using TeamSTEPPS Just Culture and

Lean methodology is evidenced by numerous accreditations and achievement awards. Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center was honored this year as a finalist and will receive $12,500 as part of the prize, which will be reinvested into patient care services. Lincoln is the second HHC hospital to receive recognition from AHA. HHCs Queens Hospital Center was awarded the Quest for Quality Citation of Merit in 2010. Other hospitals receiving the 2012 Quest for Quality awards were University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, University of North Carolina Hospitals which was also honored as a finalist and Meriter Hospital in Wisconsin which received the Citation of Merit. Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, located at 234 E. 149th Street in the Bronx, is a 347-bed, acute care level 1 trauma center with the busiest single site Emergency Department in the region. The Hospital emphasizes primary care and specialty medicine and utilizes the latest advances in medical science. Lincoln Hospital is a member of the Generations+/Northern Manhattan Health Network, a healthcare conglomerate which is part of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation.

Harlem News Group August 2, 2012


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