The 19th Erotic Art Exhibition in the Fayad Jamis Gallery of Alamar, Havana opened on Saturday February 16th. This show awards, in addition to the visual arts, fiction and poetry on the subject and can be visited through mid April. (7 photos)
Read MoreThe Superior Institute of Art (ISA) and the National Art School (ENA) were declared national monuments by the National Heritage Council on Monday in Havana, reported the Prensa Latina news agency.
Read MoreA 58-year-old author from the poverty-stricken Havana neighborhood of Mantilla has just won Cuba’s National Literary Award. Leonardo Padura was awarded that distinction in a context of social and institutional transformations that are changing the face of the island. For many of his compatriots, these changes and the award constitute good news.
Read MoreThe Cuban film Juan de los muertos, by Alexander Brugues, won the Goya award on Sunday for the Best Latin American Film, the highest honor granted by the Spanish Film Academy.
Read More“The reality of a dancer is as complex as that any other person’s. I know that people imagine dancers to be like those porcelain dolls that break if you squeeze them a little, or maybe like women who are somewhat stretched,” said Patricia Hernandez in her interview with HT.
Read MoreYesterday morning, Cuba’s 2013 International Book Fair opened its doors to the public. Although this is the twenty-second such event held here since 1959, one can argue that book fairs are a tradition in Havana. Writer Jose Lezama Lima described them in the pages of the Diario de la Marina newspaper as far back as 1949. (37 photos)
Read MoreFifteen members of Cuba’s “Guaracheros de Regla” troupe who participated in carnival festivities in the Mexican city of Veracruz, left their hotel and didn’t catch their return flight to Cuba with the rest of the cultural delegation, reported DPA news.
Read MoreThe Hindus pray to be always in the right place at the right time. From that perspective, I couldn’t have been anywhere else on the afternoon of February 2nd, but at the Cathedral in Old Havana. I was there to see an unusual concert of a very atypical duo: Ananda Stephan and Joseph Röösli, father and son.
Read MoreThis past weekend, in a crowded Karl Marx Theater, the Cuban duo Buena Fe gave three concerts to present their new CD Dial. Their eighth recording, the album consists of thirteen songs and — as usual — it’s expected that several of the compositions won’t make it to television here because of their critical lyrics.
Read MoreThe Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval won the award for Best Jazz Ensemble Album during the ceremony of the 55th Grammy Awards, held on Sunday in Los Angeles. This was Sandoval’s ninth Grammy, this time with his award-winning CD Dear Diz (Every Day I Think Of You), dedicated to legendary trumpet master and composer Dizzy Gillespie.
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