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Behind the Wall Project at the Havana Biennial

The collective project of visual arts entitled Detras del muro (Behind the wall) was inaugurated last Sunday as part of the official month-long exhibition of the XIII Havana Biennial.

Tattoos in Cuba, Increasingly Popular

Tattoos are widely accepted by young people in Cuba, although some people are still taken aback by this new trend. Ana Maria Herrera tells what tattoos have meant to her.

Stockings and Duchamp in the Havana Biennial

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)

Street Dance in Havana (Photo Feature)

I 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)

Cuban Projects Invite Population to Break Down Machista Prejudice

A “busy” night, which combined a film screening, music, dance and drag queens, was held recently at La Marca body art studio/gallery, in Havana.

New Cuban Documentary against Oblivion and Lightness

“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…

Cuba’s “Parrandas” a Tradition in Danger of Being Lost

Even 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.

A Visit to Havana’s La Zorra y El Cuervo Jazz Club… Finally!

I 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)

Cuba’s Twisted History Advances

Last 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.

Young Filmmakers Show their Works in Cuba from April 2-7

Cinema 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