“At least I had the guts to go down there and see it with my own eyes,” said Oliver Stone who just relaeased his documentary “Mi Amigo Hugo” on the late Venezuelan president.
Read MoreRaul Castro dismissed Wednesday his Minister of Culture, Rafael Bernal, after two years in office; no reason was given. Bernal was immediately replaced with the current deputy minister, Julián González Toledo, 52.
Read MoreWe present the program for the Cuba Cinematheque for March 2014. It includes the premier of the Cuban documentary “Humberto” (Humberto Solas) directed by Carlos Barba Salva on March 25.
Read MoreThe report of a major theft of valuable Cuban art from the island’s Fine Arts Museum was confirmed on Friday in a statement from the National Council of Cultural Heritage.
Read MoreWhen I was fourteen, I got the crazy idea I wanted to learn to play the guitar. My parents didn’t have the money to buy me the instrument, so I decided to talk with Barbara, a friend of mine who lived in the building across the street and owned a Pablo Quintana guitar.
Read MoreNearly a hundred paintings have been stolen from Havana’s National Fine Arts Museum in what could well be the most serious misappropriation of Cuba’s artistic heritage of recent decades.
Read MorePaco de Lucía was not only a reference for flamenco in Spain, he was a legend of world music long before his death in Mexico today. Composer and master guitarist, he renewed flamenco, gave a special feeling to classical pieces and made an important contribution to Jazz.
Read MoreBorn in Cuba’s province of Santa Clara in 1972, Roly Berrio is an outstanding folk musician who broke into the music world in the 90s. In 1992, he founded the trio Enserie with musicians Levis Aleaga and Raul Cabrera, a band that would become a nationwide project under the Hermanos Saiz Association.
Read MoreThelvia Marin Mederos is a Cuban painter, sculptor and writer. Now over ninety years old, she is still artistically active. She talks about her life as an artist with HT.
Read MoreAs the Cuba Book Fair 2014 is in full swing in the capital, Ernesto Perez Chang questions the highly controlled policy by Cuban government publishers and the virtual ban on individual editorial initiatives on the island.
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