Cuban painter Mario Carreño, who died a decade ago in Chile, has returned into the news. His work “Fuego en el batey” was recently auctioned off at Christie’s New York Latin American Art Evening for the astronomical sum of US $2.18 million. Carreño is practically an unknown figure in Cuba, although he is an artist of importance abroad.
Read MoreSo this night we also had the strange pleasure to hear Quantum, a group that formed in 2006 and has battled against the material shortages they face to achieve what they want. Their music hypnotizes and catches, acting like a spider web that clings to its prey and doesn’t let go until its victim is devoured. I would like to interview these guys so that the readers of Havana Times can learn more about them. I hope to do that soon.
Read More“As soon as I was old enough, I demanded thought be translated into something more than spit spraying or arm waving; I found three fairly dirty qualities of which I would never be able to clean myself: I learned that I was poor, that I was homosexual, and that I liked art.”
Read MorePeople walked all along the street looking for different reading selections, exchanges with authors, book presentations, comedy routines, performances by the children’s musical-theater company La Colmenita, or the playing of some trova musician.
Read MoreThe activities organized by the Cuban government for the summer season will begin today with a Book Night, which will take place in all the 14 province capitals and in Havana in the evening and will include the release of new book titles, poetry readings and concerts, reported IPS.
Read More“We shouldn’t always wait for acceptance from above; we have to be daring enough to speak up and to make a little noise. I’ll continue making short films “with” or “without” the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), or any other institution, as long as they always respect my creative freedom,” said director Eduardo del Llano.
Read MoreRoberto Salas is a unique photographer. His initial and most recognized work recreated the epic events of the Cuban Revolution. For decades, its heroes and the culminating moments of that history dominated his photographic art.
Read MoreAfter overcoming the impossibility of speaking, the dancer approaches a microphone: “All that I could tell you is lie, and the rest is silence, (only that silence doesn’t exist).” Shouts, love and pain were rendered between a couple that united and separated indistinctly.
Read MoreA Cuban edition of Eduardo Galeano’s book of vignettes “Patas arribas. La escuela del mundo al reves,” will be presented this Saturday by the Cuban Book Institute. Galeano, a much published Uruguayan author, gained best seller status when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave Barack Obama a copy of his classic “The Open Veins of Latin America.”
Read MoreOne fan, Lara, who will soon return to Mexico said, “I’ve now finished my studies here in Cuba. I’m from Durango. But though people don’t believe it, I’d never heard Café Tacuba live. This is the first time. So Cuba has given me many surprises.”
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