Cine Cubano, la pupila insomne (Cuban Cinema, The Insomniac Eye) is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, having posted a thousand entries. In Part 1 of our interview, founder Juan Antonio García Borrero talked about how the blog started and its growth over the years. Here, García Borrero and Carlos Eduardo Maristany Castro discuss sponsorship, influence, and what to do with those thousand posts.

Cine Cubano, la pupila insomne (Cuban Cinema, The Insomniac Eye), one of the most controversial Cuban blogs, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, having posted a thousand entries. In an exclusive two-part interview for Cuban Art News, Carlos Eduardo Maristany Castro spoke, via e-mail, with its creator: Cuban film critic and scholar Juan Antonio García Borrero.

In the spotlight: a master printmaker in Cambridge, Los Carpinteros in Switzerland, and for Spanish speakers, Cuban modernism in Miami and a recent novel now available on U.S. bookshelves.

On Tuesday, we kicked off our Bienal update with exhibitions and events opening today through Saturday. Here, a roundup of the Bienal’s second week, starting with an intriguing look at landscape and the environment on Sunday, May 13.

With the 11th Bienal set to open this weekend, there’s been a steady flow of announcements into the Cuban Art News in-box. Here are the latest additions to an expanding roster of exhibitions and events awaiting visitors to Havana this week, from Metaphors of Change at Factoría Habana to Los Carpinteros’ irresistible Conga Irreversible. (Check back on Thursday for next week’s Havana update.)

Movie audiences around the island saw a different side of American life and culture when a program of short U.S. documentaries made a two-week tour of Cuba this spring. Presented by a curator from MoMA’s film department, Closing Distances/Cerrando Distancias was a first-time experiment for all concerned—one that its organizers would like to continue.

In Part 1 of our conversation, Armando Mariño talked about his artmaking process and began to take us around his exhibition, Armando Mariño: Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester, which opens tonight, May 2, at The 8th Floor Gallery in Manhattan. Here, the conversation focuses on specific works in the show. (For images of the works, see the photo album on the CAN Facebook page.)

Last week, Cuban Art News caught up with Armando Mariño as he was preparing to install his upcoming exhibition, Armando Mariño: Recent Paintings from the Year of the Protester at The 8th Floor gallery in Manhattan. He began by talking about the creative process behind these new works, going on to talk about specific pieces in the show. (For images of the works, see the photo album on the CAN Facebook page.)

Cuban abstract artists take center stage in Miami as Casa de las Américas gears up for a year of neo-figurative art, Australia welcomes its first full-scale contemporary Cuban art show, Armando Mariño prepares his first solo show in New York City, and the Miami Art Museum gets ready to host the José Bedia retrospective.

Descermer Bueno—writes music critic Joaquín Borges Triana—is one of Cuba’s best examples of ajiaco, or fusion music. He sings in the hope of creating bridges of communication and understanding among Cubans, wherever they are.