Tag: Cuban artists

stones that fit in the mouth

I. ritual vomiting At our last meeting, we talked about littleness. I said that's the way we should...

‘Nuit éternelle, désobéissance esthétique’: Cuban Nights in Montreal

I have not been back to Cuba in five years. Last time, I flew from Mexico to...

Kenny Lemes: Inventing Life

When Kenny Lemes took his own life in his apartment, the world was steeped in poetry. An artist,...

The Minimal Secret Strength of Sabrina Fanego

Art should not reveal mysteries, but enhance them, add mysteries to other previous mysteries. To introduce the...

“I refuse to be called an artist.” A conversation...

We met at the Salomon Arts Gallery in the well-known Tribeca neighborhood. In the summer of 2024,...

Chronicle in “Abstract Times”—an exhibition in Havana

“Tiempos Abstractos” (“Abstract Times”) is, first and foremost, a bi-personal exhibition. It is a constructed sentence that...

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...