All the people I told I would be visiting Bayamo, Granma agreed I would like the city. Bayamo’s main boulevard has many charms, boasting an enviable cleanliness, and the place is home to a broad variety of commercial and cultural establishments. (11 photos)
I had never travelled so far from Havana – I had only gone as far east as Villa Clara, where I went two years ago. I had the opportunity to take a trip to Bayamo as part of an exhibition (titled El teatro en imagenes, “The Theater in Images”) I put together with a former classmate, Estela Ferrer.
Another important Cuban artist has returned to the island with a solo exhibition after a 20-year absence from the country’s art scene. Ricardo Rodriguez Brey is closely linked to those artists who made up the extraordinary 1981 exhibition “Volume I”, held at Havana’s International Arts Center.
A few days ago I finished reading one of the used books that I bought at a good price in the last Havana International Book Fair. It’s a biography of the Roman painter, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) by Rauda Jamis.
We had to enter the exhibition space in small groups of people, for the Wilfredo Lam gallery is a bit small and the sculptures by Cuban artist Agustin Cardenas titled “The Forms of Silence” were placed dangerously close to one another.
I have been taking an English course for about a year and a half. Throughout this time, I have had the opportunity to talk with different people and to become exposed to a different (and perhaps more profound) way of understanding certain aspects of our reality.
The managers of movie theaters in Havana’s Vedado neighborhood recently began to implement a “new policy” (I call it “new” because I had never suffered its consequences till now).
It was 10 at night and Havana’s Monte street was practically empty. Though there was still a fair bit of traffic on the street, I would see only the occasional passerby from my balcony. It was then that two children between 10 and 12 began yelling, calling a girl who lives in one of the neighboring buildings.
The Center for the Development of the Visual Arts located in Old Havana was the venue of a month-long, joint exhibition displaying the works of Yusnier Mentado Fernandez (1983) and Vladmir Gonzalez Portales (1977).
The authors of this metaphorical road flick, Guillermo Ramirez Malberti and Ernesto Domecq Menendez, are visual artists belonging to different generations who had never before shared a gallery space. (6 photos)