Tag: Cuban artists

Celia Cruz: The Coin, The Photo, The Photographer

When Alexis Rodríguez-Duarte and his partner and collaborator Tico Torres decided to turn a fashion magazine assignment...

Ana Mendieta: Anatomy of Uprootedness

“On September 11, 1961, a twelve-year-old girl named Ana María Mendieta boarded a KLM flight to Miami...

Aruán Ortiz Wins Guggenheim Award for Musical Composition

Aruán Ortiz, born in Santiago de Cuba in 1973, is the recipient of the Guggenheim Award in...

Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Interviewed from Prison

More than two and a half years have passed, half of his sentence, since the jailing of...

José Manuel Mesías: “Is the erection of a scarecrow...

José Manuel Mesías was born in Havana in 1990. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine...

“Memories of Underdevelopment”: a photographic series from today’s Cuba

Certainly, “Memories of Underdevelopment” is a series inspired by the novel and film of the same name,...

The Urgent Drawings of Camila Lobón

There is still time to see the “PROJ(3)CT” exhibition and the artists Alejandro Taquechel, Nelson Jalil, and...

The Cuban Poster Man in New York

The blessing promised at the triumph of Fidel Castro’s Revolution would arrive with the usual delay to...