2025
Puerto Rico鈥檚 remarkable Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) has generated a large traveling exhibition, 鈥淭he Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce.鈥�
2024
The Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) in Puerto Rico, has partnered with the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, to organize a traveling exhibition that will debut in Texas in February.
The show of twenty paintings from the Museo de Arte de Ponce presents a novel self-perspective of the island, viscerally connecting it to the diaspora in Central Florida.
In a portrait from 1928, a Puerto Rican woman holds a devotional painting of the Virgin Mary and child.
2022
El Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico doesn鈥檛 have to worry about climate activists. They have to worry about the climate itself.
Titled 鈥淣ostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, 1786- 1962,鈥� it is the first show from the Puerto Rican museum to travel outside of the island and many of its 21 works have never been seen in the United States.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will display five of the most important paintings from the collection of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico, from October 8, 2022, through February 2024.
The pieces include paintings by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
2021
Despite challenges wrought by the pandemic and earthquake-caused damage to its building, the museum has a new director and new momentum.
The president of the Board of Trustees of the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Mar铆a Luisa Ferr茅 Rangel, announced the appointment of Cheryl Hartup as director of the cultural institution.
Stipends, ranging from around $7,000 to $100,000, will help museums jump-start clean energy, climate disaster protection and sustainability projects.
2019
In 2017, Hurricane Maria laid waste to Puerto Rico, killing thousands, devastating the island鈥檚 power grid and cementing itself historically as a storm whose consequences would reverberate outwards for years.
Digitisation effort draws on works from four institutions in a push for cultural preservation
2016
Frederic Leighton鈥檚 Flaming June is now considered a treasure of Victorian painting. But at one point it was practically worthless 鈥� and nearly vanished.
Yesterday the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio announced the appointment of its new director.