Renowned Cuban actress and singer Rosita Fornes will put on an elaborate show this Friday at Havana’s Karl Marx Theater, where she will also be paid homage by other artists on the island for her 74 years of artistic life.
Read MoreWhen I first saw him on Obispo Street, in Old Havana, I assumed he was one of many street musicians trying to make a living with their art. He seemed interesting with his melodies of the Far East, something atypical of the street performers I usually see in this city.
Read MoreThe first library-park in Cuba will be opened on the grounds of Jose Marti National Library in Havana on Saturday December 29, reported Juventud Rebelde newspaper.
Read MoreThe novel “Ecué-Yamba-O!” by the great Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, will have a new edition, 35 years after its only publishing on the island.
Read MoreMaykel 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.
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