Hundreds gathered at El Museo del Barrio this weekend to celebrate Maristany, a Black Puerto Rican artist and activist who died in March at age 76.
on Sunday wanted to linger at La Fonda, his favorite neighborhood restaurant, for a toast.
Maristany’s soft spot for snapping neighborhood kids playing in fire hydrants or drawing chalk portraits of themselves with wings, Luciano suggested, may have developed because his own childhood was cut short. “My father experienced betrayal at a very young age, so it was hard for him to let people in on a personal level,” said Maristany’s son, Pablo Maristany, who at times was estranged from his father.
Irma Colón, among the mourners who headed to Maristany’s favorite restaurant after the memorial, was born and raised in El Barrio. Sitting at the bar of La Fonda, Maristany’s unofficial office, she held up her phone to show a photo Maristany took of El Museo del Barrio when it was just a storefront. He had helped to found the institution, which is now one of the leading venues for Latine art in New York City.
“If you look at his work, hope has been the underlying message," Alita Maristany, the artist's daughter, declared onstage at the memorial.
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