Cuban Art News

Update: Mendive in L.A., Cañibano in Australia, Cuba Contemporanea in Geneva

April 23, 2013

The spring art season is in full swing—so much so that we’re running two Updates this week to squeeze it all in. In this installment, the celebrations continue at the Museo Nacional in Havana, Manuel Mendive opens a retrospective in Los Angeles, and Cuban artists are featured in group shows in Gdansk, Geneva, Australia, Miami.

Exhibition Preview: “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World”

June 07, 2012

Opening next week at El Museo del Barrio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Queens Museum of Art, Caribbean: Crossroads of the World surveys this rich and complex region through more than two hundred years of art and visual history. Here, Cuban Art News gives readers a first look at this thought-provoking exhibition.

Barroso and Ramos at the Museo Nacional: Bienal Report #2

May 31, 2012

As the 11th Habana Bienal prepared to open earlier this month, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes hosted the debut of two solo exhibitions: Abel Barroso – Cuando caen las fronteras (When the borders fall) and Sandra Ramos – Entre cercanías y lejanías llevadas a cabo (Between nearnesses and distances achieved). The day before the shows opened, Cuban Art News dropped by for a chat.

2011 in Cuban Art: A Recap From the Island, Part 1

January 16, 2012

Described by the U.K. website Publishing Perspectives as a “de-facto digital library of Cuban culture,” the online journal La Jiribilla celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2011. Among its end-of-year articles was a detailed recounting of the year in art on the island. We are pleased to present this “2011 Visual Cartography” by Mabel Machado as a two-part series on Cuban Art News, where it appears in English for the first time.

Tania Bruguera at MoMA: “I Try to Ask What Art Is”

May 24, 2010

Speaking at MoMA, Bruguera talks about art, teaching, the future of feminism, and what she hoped to accomplish by founding her own art school in Havana.