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RITUALS OF CHAOS, OPEN HOUSE AT THE BRONX MUSEUMBy Howard Giske

On Friday evening, July 20th, theBronx Museum celebrated theopening of new exhibits around

the themes of style and urban design,from art to graffiti. The Rituals of Chaosexhibit will be on view through January6, 2013.

The Bronx Museum gave a freeadmission party with DJ music blasting,a kid’s activity corner, drinks and pret-zels, with a large crowd enjoying thefun. In the lobby of the museum, athree-dimensional sculpture on the wallof a man with a mask and cans of spraypaint demonstrated the interface betweenart and urban reality. In fact, childrenwere given a chance to create their owngraffiti tags on paper. Behind the lobby,a huge mural by Tats Cru is entitled“Stop the War.” The mural serves as aprotest sign, and a mix of reality and fan-tasy, while also as a caricature of mili-tary fighters as comic book heroes.

The Rituals of Chaos exhibition,named after Carlos Monsivais' book ofthe same title, takes the work of Mexi-co’s renowned photojournalist, EnriqueMetinides, as a departure point and com-plements it with the work of contempo-rary artists who also capture the humanexperience in the metropolis. Guest cura-tor Monica Espinel organized Rituals ofChaos. Featured artists include: EnriqueMetinides, Sophie Calle, RobinGraubard, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rick

Liss, and Jamel Shabazz. The photoartist Jamel Shabazz looked for iconicNew York images, including a manwrestling over an object with a pit bull.It’s not clear if the dog is trying to grab achain or a steak, or who is grabbing who,but it symbolizes the reality of urbanstruggle.

Another exhibition is BronxLab: Style Wars, on view until June 2,2013. Style Wars, a group exhibitionabout graffiti, includes painting, draw-ings, prints, sculpture, video and a site-specific project. Artists featured areHenry Chalfant, Lady K. Fever, KeithHaring, Valeri Larko, Sofia Maldonado,La Pandilla, Rigoberto Torres, Lilly vander Stokker, and Tats Cru. Many of the

associated artists use graffiti tags as partof otherwise realistic paintings. Style isusually determined by the people con-trolling media and communications, butBronx Lab chooses an individualisticmodel of style. The Bronx erupted intograffiti in the 1970s with a so-called wildstyle, from the chaotic, blending to Dis-ney-esque images. The wild style ofmaking tags and of the graffiti artistsplashing his or her brand on a wall hasbecome another form of branding, in thecorporate sense of creating consumermerchandise.

The third exhibition opening iscalled Revolution Not Televised, which ison view through October 7, 2012, thetitle being a spoof of Gil Scott-Heron’s

famous song-poem, “The RevolutionWill Not Be Televised.” This exhibitionfeatures works by contemporary Cubanartists from the Bronx Museum Perma-nent Collection, and from private collec-tions, with themes relating topersonalities and politics. This is bla-zoned forth with the painting by CamiloDiaz de Villalvilla, “Just Do It” (2010),of Latin American revolutionary CheGuevara, with his portrait cut off at thebottom by a banner saying “Just Do It.”Che has become the symbiosis of hero,martyr, and commercial brand.

The Bronx Museum is located at1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. Formore info call (718) 681-6000 or visitwww.bronxmuseum.org.

Lincoln Medical and Mental HealthCenter recently received the presti-gious Quest for Quality award from

the American Hospital Association (AHA)for its leadership and innovation in qualityimprovement and safety. The South Bronx-based facility successfully demonstrated acommitment to providing patient-centeredcare focused on ground-breaking methodsthat improve safety and quality. The award ispresented annually to honor leadership andinnovation based on the Institute of Medi-cine’s (IOM’s) six quality aims—safety,patient-centeredness, effectiveness, efficien-cy, timeliness and equity. Lincoln is one offour hospitals selected this year from anation-wide pool of 40 hospitals competingfor the prize. Dr. Melissa Schori, Lincoln’sChief Medical Officer, accepted the awardduring the annual AHA Health Forum Sum-mit held today in San Francisco, California.

“At Lincoln Hospital, we havehardwired quality and patient safety withinthe culture of our organization. We arefocused on all the right things that make adifference to patients and to staff: preventinginfections, removing barriers to cancerscreenings, and providing coordinated carefrom our primary care medical homes,” said

Iris Jimenez-Hernandez, Lincoln HospitalExecutive Director. “We are proud to receivethis award in recognition of our open cultureof education, accountability, and our continu-ous quest for excellence.”

“Hospitals know that one of thebest ways to bring greater value to healthcare services is to improve the efficiency,safety, and effectiveness of the care they pro-vide to patients and the community,” saidRich Umbdenstock, AHA president andCEO. “The hospitals we recognize today areusing sustained efforts to achieve results that

enhance care for patients in their communi-ties.”

“This award recognizes that Lin-coln is a high performing healthcare organi-zation with an advanced clinical informationsystem that leads to improved health out-comes through the use of clinical practiceguidelines and available information acrossthe continuum of care,” said Melissa P.Schori, Lincoln Hospital’s Chief MedicalOfficer. “Commitment to patient centeredhealthcare delivery and collaborative teamwork using TeamSTEPPS® Just Culture and

Lean methodology is evidenced by numerousaccreditations and achievement awards.”

Lincoln Medical and Mental HealthCenter was honored this year as a finalist andwill receive $12,500 as part of the prize,which will be reinvested into patient care ser-vices. Lincoln is the second HHC hospital toreceive recognition from AHA. HHC’sQueens Hospital Center was awarded theQuest for Quality Citation of Merit in 2010.Other hospitals receiving the 2012 Quest forQuality awards were University HospitalsCase Medical Center in Cleveland, Universi-ty of North Carolina Hospitals which wasalso honored as a finalist and Meriter Hospi-tal in Wisconsin which received the Citationof Merit.

Lincoln Medical and Mental HealthCenter, located at 234 E. 149th Street in theBronx, is a 347-bed, acute care level 1 trau-ma center with the busiest single site Emer-gency Department in the region. TheHospital emphasizes primary care and spe-cialty medicine and utilizes the latestadvances in medical science. Lincoln Hospi-tal is a member of the Generations+/North-ern Manhattan Health Network, a healthcareconglomerate which is part of the New YorkCity Health and Hospitals Corporation.

LINCOLN HOSPITAL RECEIVES NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

Bronx Museum party, backgroundTats Cru mural “Stop the War.”

Work: Graffiti artists with spraypaint.

Jamal Shabazz, Man and Dog(1980)-- Courtesy of the Bronx

Museum.

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.