When 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.
Read MoreCuban contralto Yaima Saez’ voice transports to the golden age of Cuban music. “It is a privilege to be placed alongside such renowned figures,” she told us during her interview for Havana Times.
Read MoreCuban singer/songwriter Santiago Feliu, 51, died suddenly this morning in Havana, sources close to his family to Radio Rebelde. According to relatives, Feliu suffered a severe pain in the chest and died of a heart attack before he could reach the hospital.
Read MoreConducta (“Conduct”), Cuban filmmaker Ernesto Daranas’ most recent feature, is currently being screened in movie theaters around Havana. Having explored the winding labyrinth of prostitution and procurement in Los dioses rotos (“Broken Gods”), his previous film, Daranas now takes on another sensitive issue – one that is barely talked about.
Read MoreGraffiti is part of the urban environment of all the world’s major (and not-so-major) cities. While some forms of graffiti are veritable works of art, others undermine the city’s aesthetic beauty and norms. (20 photos)
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