Within contemporary visual arts on the island, Diego Torres is a luminary among the great Cuban landscape artists. However, in our interview he told HT: “I hate for people to pigeonhole me; I don’t even like being called a landscape artist because — though that’s what I do — I try to go beyond that genre.”
Read MoreCuban artists came out for a concert in support of the global campaign to combat violence against children, led by electroacoustic DJ Alejandro Núñez with the participation of guests Haila, Legna, Danger, Maria Mompié, Aned Mota, Randy Malcom & others. (10 photos)
Read MoreThree new cave art sites in Cuba were recently discovered at the Imias Nature Reserve in the eastern province of Guantanamo. This set of pictographs created by pre-Columbian groups or populations — most of these painted in red colors — were found during a joint expedition of the “Speleological Society of Cuba” and the “Cuban Cave Art Research Group.”
Read MoreThe musical group “David Calzado y su Charanga Habanera” will mark the 25th year since the band’s formation by beginning a tour of 17 US cities starting on March 23.
Read MoreIn a hall of the Grand Theater of Havana, Alexis “Kcho” Leyva Machado has organized an exhibition of sculptures and installations that is being visited and admired by numerous members of the general Cuban public and foreign visitors. (29 photos)
Read MoreCuban activists on the Twitter social network have called for a massive “twittazo” (Twitter session) today with the tag “#SavetheWorld,” in response to the call by former Cuban President Fidel Castro to save the planet.
Read MoreInstitutional censorship of a documentary about a Cuban rapper compelled filmmaker Fernando Perez to quit his position as director of the Eleventh Youth Film Festival, to be held in Cuba from April to 3 to 8.
Read MoreThis is a film that delves into people’s recollections of the more than thirty years of Soviet presence in Cuba. The bulk of the comments in “The ‘Bolos’ in Cuba: An Eternal Friendship” come from Cubans on the street who remember the great epoch of canned Russian meat, Raqueta and Poljov watches, tough Russian boots, matrioshka dolls, Aurika washing machines, Soviet apple sauce and cans of powdered milk.
Read MoreThe Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) foresees several co-productions and collaborations with national and international institutions this year.
Read MoreThe book Nuestro deber es luchar (Our Duty Is to Fight), by ex-Cuban president Fidel Castro, will be released simultaneously on Wednesday in cities around the world.
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