Van Cortlandt House Museum

Van Cortlandt House Museum is featured on Open House this Sunday, June 14!

Be sure to tune in to see Museum Director Margaret Holmes discuss the collection, the house's Revolutionary-era history, and its unique Bronx setting.

Watch at 9 AM on NBC in New York, or check your local listings for Open House on NBC. The episode will also be available on YouTube and Peacock.

What does a house built in rural New York in 1748 have to do with the Caribbean and Latin America?

Quite a lot.

Presented in connection with Overlapping Empires, this special tour explores how the history of the Van Cortlandt House is tied to empire, trade, enslavement, migration, and the wider Atlantic world.

Join VCHM Site Historian Nick Dembowski and artist Samantha Box on Saturday, June 13 at 1 PM for a one-hour look at the histories beneath the surface of the house and Box’s site-wide exhibition.

Admission is free. Registration is suggested as space is limited. Link to register in bio.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Van Cortlandt House Museum's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Overlapping Empires is now open!

Samantha Box’s site-wide contemporary art exhibition is installed throughout Van Cortlandt House Museum, bringing new work into conversation with the rooms, objects, and histories of the house.

This project has been months in the making, and we are deeply grateful to Samantha Box and her team, VCHM staff and board, and everyone who helped bring the exhibition into the museum.

Overlapping Empires is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Admission is free for all visitors through the month of June. Visit Wednesday through Sunday, 11 AM to 4 PM, and experience the exhibition now on view through August.

Installation is underway!

 .box and are in the house preparing Overlapping Empires, a site-wide contemporary art exhibition opening this Friday, June 5th at Van Cortlandt House Museum.

Soon, the rooms of the museum will hold new work that reframes the house, its objects, and its histories through Box’s still-life photography and installation.

This is the first contemporary art exhibition of its kind at VCHM, on view through August.

Come see the house differently.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

The piano is the art. The music is up to you.

"Daily Chhapa," a Sing for Hope piano by artist Rangoli, is at Van Cortlandt House Museum through June 7 as part of the citywide public piano project!

Come play it. Photograph it. Listen for a minute. Make the museum sound a little different.

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Explore "Overlapping Empires" through a series of free public programs at Van Cortlandt House Museum!

The program series begins with “Meet the Artist” & Intro to Exhibition, a free online conversation with Samantha Box on Tuesday, May 26 at 7 PM.

Learn more about the ideas, process, and research behind Box’s site-wide contemporary art exhibition, opening June 5 and on view through August.

"Overlapping Empires" brings contemporary art into dialogue with the histories of empire, trade, migration, and memory embedded in one of New York City’s earliest colonial sites.

Join us online May 26 ! For more info and to register, visit our website: vchm.org

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

VCHM’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Special event this Sunday, May 24th at Edgehill - 2570 Independence Ave in The Bronx. Get a behind the scenes look at Daniel Hauben’s creative process at two screenings (1:00 & 3:00pm) of a time-lapse video showing the evolution of Emergence, in which 6 years of painting goes by in less than 20 minutes. After the video there will be a gallery talk by the artist. Doors open at 11am.

What is a still life really showing us?

In Adriaen van Utrecht’s "Banquet Still Life" from 1644, abundance fills the canvas: fruit, glassware, silver, lobster, imported goods, and objects arranged to display wealth, taste, and access.

But paintings like this can also open larger questions. What histories of trade, empire, labor, and desire are contained in these objects? What does a table of luxury reveal about the world that produced it?

These are some of the visual histories that Bronx artist Samantha Box engages in "Overlapping Empires," a site-wide contemporary art exhibition opening June 5 at Van Cortlandt House Museum.

"Overlapping Empires" will be on view June through August, with a series of free public programs for anyone ready to look closer.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

VCHM’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Image: Adriaen van Utrecht, Banquet Still Life, 1644. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.