The curatorial programming at The Armory Show 2022 was overseen by specialists in Latin American art for the first time in its four-decade history.

I joined photographer Ruben Natal - San Miguel at the Brooklyn Museum last Sunday for Honor Juneteenth —the annual holiday commemorating the end of legal slavery in the United States — with a full day of activities celebrating self-expression, community, and Black liberation and creativity. Ruben focused his lens on the Black women at the event.

Some people have used the quarantine’s isolation as an opportunity to slow down and unwind. Ruben Natal-San Miguel isn’t one of those people: the Harlem-based photographer’s artistic output remains as prolific as ever despite everything that’s going on in the world.

8/24/1955 – 3/20/2020

Robert Herman, a renowned street photographer who lived and worked in New York, died on Friday, March 20th, 2020. Arcade Project has compiled four tributes to Herman’s life, work, and legacy.

For Ruben Natal-San Miguel, a photographer based in Harlem, the coronavirus pandemic couldn’t have come at a more inopportune time. Cases of the disease in New York started increasing exponentially right before the opening of his solo show at Postmasters Gallery, Women R Beautiful, and the reception had to be cancelled due to social distancing guidelines.

Ruben Natal-San Miguel –American, (Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico) is an architect, photographer, curator, writer, art collector and consultant specializing primarily in the art of fine emerging photography.