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Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (tentatively scheduled for late 2009) will explore the visual arts across the Caribbean during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three broadly-defined moments: Modernity (approximately 1920-1950), Revolutions: Independence and Identity (approximately 1950-1990); and Contemporary practice (approximately 1990-present). The project will consider the histories and artists of the Spanish, French, Dutch and English islands, the Caribbean basin, and their Diasporas. An international advisory group will plan and present scholarly discussions, public programming, events, educational components, the multi-venue exhibition and a major resource publication. Highlighting rarely-seen works, the exhibition will be available for travel after its New York debut.

The first international advisory group meeting was held in New York at El Museo del Barrio on June 30, 2006. A second international advisory group meeting, with the generous support of the Reed Foundation, was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at CCA7 on April 17, 18, and 19, 2007. Future meetings are being planned for locations in the Dutch, French and Spanish Caribbean, as well as other locations in the United States.

This collaboration links three New York institutions — El Museo del Barrio, The Queens Museum of Art, and The Studio Museum in Harlem — founded at approximately the same time (1968-1972), out of similar community needs and for related civic purposes. Caribbean: Crossroads of the World joins these institutions for the first time, while highlighting the core Caribbean constituency of each of them.

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