Cuban Art News

In Conversation: Curator Elvis Fuentes, Part 1

August 30, 2012

Filling gallery spaces in three museums, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World takes a panoramic look at the dozens of countries that make up this region, in what the New York Times has called “the big art event of the summer season in New York.” In the first of a four-part Thursday series for Cuban Art News, Elvis Fuentes, project director for Caribbean: Crossroads, talks about the Cuban art and artists in the show, and Cuban art in general.

Piñera at 100: An International Theater Fest in Miami

August 28, 2012

Havana has been commemorating the centenary of Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera (1912-1979) for several months, with panel discussions, publications, and performances. Now, Miami’s joined in with a monthlong theater festival presenting a half-dozen of his plays. Poet, novelist and playwright Félix Lizárraga reflects on Piñera’s highly original, wildly entertaining voice, and what it is that makes his plays, even now, theatrical must-sees.

The Cuban Heritage Collection: A Treasure Trove Moves Online

August 23, 2012

In 1998, the University of Miami brought together its many archives about Cuba and the global Cuban diaspora to form the Cuban Heritage Collection. For scholars and researchers, the actual books and objects are indispensable resources in their work. For the rest of us, there’s an immense amount of enticing material—photos, postcards, cigar boxes, letters, online exhibitions, and more—easily accessible online, with the promise of more to come.

Cuba in the Bronx: “Revolution Not Televised”

August 21, 2012

In support of New York’s biggest show of the summer—Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, on view in three museums—the Bronx Museum of the Arts draws on the strengths of its own collection, and generous lenders, to throw an invigorating spotlight on contemporary Cuban art.

Havana through English Eyes

August 16, 2012

Exactly 250 years after the entry of the British fleet into the Havana harbor, the curator of British Art at Havana’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes reflects on engravings made by British artists in 1762.