Día de Muertos falls on November 1 and 2, and the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows Corona Park has an exhibition built around the same idea: ¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S. Pueblo!: Altares Ocultos de Duelo y Memoria, or Hidden Altars of Grief and Remembrance. Twenty-three artists whose lives have been shaped by immigration each made a work that functions as an altar, honoring ancestors and the people their communities have lost. The show opened October 7 and stays up through February 7, 2027, and admission is pay what you wish.

What is in the galleries

The museum describes the exhibition as a place where grief, memory and cultural survival meet. Each piece is treated as an altar: a way of remembering family members and ancestors, mourning lives lost to state violence, and showing how immigrant communities keep their own archives through art, ritual and looking after one another. The exhibition is presented alongside the museum's Día de Muertos Community Ofrenda.

It is the fifth edition of the project and a Queens Museum Community Partnership Exhibition. Guadalupe Ambrosio is the guest curator, and the artist Ronny Quevedo designed the installation. A poem by Marco Saavedra, which gives the collective its title, runs through the show.

Who the artists are

¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S. Pueblo! is an evolving collective of immigrant artists and artists whose families crossed borders. Its name borrows from a poem by the Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, with the S.O.S. added as a response to fears of deportation. Earlier editions of the project were hosted at Bronx Art Space, The New School and smaller venues around the city, and this is its turn at the Queens Museum.

Also at the museum this fall

The same visit takes in Sonia Boyce's exhibition Demonstrate, About Us: The American Imaginary, and a spotlight on the archives of the Panorama of the City of New York, the museum's room-sized model of all five boroughs. Two free family events are on the calendar: Guardians of Flushing Bay's SaturBAY celebration on Saturday, October 31, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a scavenger hunt, art workshops and face painting, and a Community Archiving Day on Sunday, November 15, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hours and admission

  • Wednesday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m.
  • Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Closed Monday and Tuesday. Last entry is 4:30 p.m.

Admission is pay what you wish. The suggested amount is $8 for adults and $6 for seniors and students, and children 12 and under are free.

Getting there

The Queens Museum is in the New York City Building in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, next to the Unisphere. Take the 7 train to Mets-Willets Point and walk south through the park, about 15 minutes, or get off at 111th Street and walk east. The exhibition is on view through February 7, 2027.

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