Maykel Sotomayor is a young creator of visual arts who is defining the path of this work on the island today. He’s motivated by what’s called object-oriented and landscape art; after he first dabbled in graphical humor.
Read MoreA new photographic exhibition hall, equipped with seven high-resolution digital displays, will open in Old Havana on January 24. “Cuba en el Corredor del Caribe” (Cuba in the Caribbean Corridor), by photographer and researcher Nicasio Viña, will be the opening work in the exhibition space.
Read MoreThe film La piscina, by Cuban director Carlos Machado Quintela, has been selected for the “Panorama Section” of the 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, to be held from February 7 to 17 in that capital.
Read MoreThe 28th Havana International Jazz Plaza Festival has just concluded, it’s an annual event that emerged in 1980 when trumpeter, pianist, singer, bandleader and sideman Bobby Carcasses decided to create a space for this sound that was frowned on by the leaders of contemporary culture of the time. (34 photos)
Read MoreAs we draw nearer to the work realized by Humberto Mayol in this past decade, we can note his ability to capture timeless images that respond to the ongoing and systematic dialogue of the social imaginary of humans in their time.
Read MoreA letter by the prominent Cuban writer Jose Lezama Lima, in addition to a poem dedicated to his mother and five photographs, has been published by the Modern Art Centre in Madrid.
Read MoreThe 28th annual Jazz Plaza International Festival will begin its performances starting today and continue through Sunday December 23 at several institutions in the capital.
Read MoreThe distinguished National Book Award was won this year by the renowned storyteller, critic and essayist Leonardo Padura, one of the most widely read and admired Cuban writers on and off the the island today.
Read MoreThe winner of the first prize Coral Award for fiction at the 34th Havana Film Festival was the film titled “No”, by Chilean director Pablo Larrain. The movie deals with the plebiscite that finally removed Augusto Pinochet from power in 1990.
Read MoreWe go camera in hand to the Alejo Carpentier Dance School in Havana. It’s one of the many such institutions where Cuba’s reknown and newer dance troupes draw their talent. (29 photos)
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