When Marcel Duchamp in 1917 transformed a simple urinal into a work of art, the ready mades would be born in this way and, with it, the objects of ordinary manufacture were repositioned with another visual and conceptual dimension. (13 photos)
Read MoreI love that dancers from several countries are out dancing in the middle of the street and that people working nearby or visiting Havana can enjoy watching them. (13 photos)
Read MoreA “busy” night, which combined a film screening, music, dance and drag queens, was held recently at La Marca body art studio/gallery, in Havana.
Read More“Portrait of an ever-adolescent artist” (a history of cinema in Cuba), is the most recent documentary by Cuban filmmaker Manuel Herrera, director of Zafiros, Locura azul (1997), Bailando Cha Cha Chá (2004), among his most known titles. A hilarious film, ingenious as its protagonist, the late filmmaker and actor Julio Garcia Espinosa…
Read MoreEven though he left 20 years ago, Ivey Diaz returns to Camajuani every March when it’s parade time. As a child, his mother worked in the San Jose (Sapos) Neighborhood’s dressing room while he made small floats with bits of scrap material.“This passion doesn’t ever leave you, it doesn’t matter where you go,” he told IPS.
Read MoreI have always liked jazz ever since I was a little girl, and I would dream about jazz clubs. I imagined a band or just a trio playing in a dimly-lit place, sipping on a chilled highball cocktail, captivated by the music of Chano Pozo, Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie. (19 photos)
Read MoreLast Saturday, journalist Eduardo Cedeno Milan gave a news report on Cuban TV about Cuba’s Musical Editions and Recording Company (EGREM), calling it “Cuba’s longest-living recording company”. Stated as an absolute, this phrase enshrines a historic mistake and also testifies to the Party/State’s manipulative campaign, which has spread to most of our national past.
Read MoreCinema as a pretext to revalue reality, change it, think it, rewrite it. This is what the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) Young Filmmakers Showing proposes each year, which seeks to promote the most recent work of those who are starting out in this adventure that is the seventh art. This 18th edition of the event arrives from April 2 to 7
Read MoreIn 2009, Colombian singer Juanes’ “Peace without Borders” concert managed to fill Revolution Square in Havana with Cubans who weren’t there to watch a parade or mass rally, who weren’t there to shout and/or carry pro-Revolution slogans, but were just there to listen to musicians. Among the foreign guests at this concert was the Spanish singer Miguel Bose.
Read MoreIt’s always hard for a sexual abuse victim to come forward and speak about her tragedy with an outsider. Even more so, if there’s a video camera running between the two. Leonor Zuniga believes that Zoilamerica Narvaez agreed to speak with her about the denunciation of her stepfather, Daniel Ortega, “because I promised her two things.”
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