It was like old times; the Bolshoi Ballet performed Saturday in Cuba after a 30-year absence. The by-special-invitation audience filled the 5,000 seat Karl Marx Theater. Jorge Luis offers Havana Times readers his up front view of the event that took place within the program of the 19th Cuba International Book Fair. (12 photos)
Read MoreThe Cuba International Book Fair is underway in the capital in its 19th edition with its headquarters at the sprawling San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress overlooking Havana Bay. The event —the most widely attended on the island— brings together Cubans of all ages and also attracts foreign visitors. (23 photos)
Read More“I’ve always been a man rich in deprivations. When I paint, some people say I’m crazy, others that I’m not able to. And when I fill the canvas with my own quirky slip ups, there —in the most profound depths— I ask: Did nature present abstractionism to the world with the first blind person?” (11 photos)
Read More“What a sad bride,” Amelia said while finishing her drawing. But the girl was not painting a wedding. Around her —running from side to side— were three other young woman dressed in white lace. They moved their bodies with intensity as their black hair contrasted with the bright morning sun. (18 photos)
Read MoreIn the 1950s, the term “pop art” came to be used for those works of art that had daily-life elements, characteristics and images that emerged from consumer society and political conflict. Likewise, this exhibit brings a profusion of politics and satire.
Read MoreThe gallery of painter Marcia Beatriz Diaz Amador can be discovered in historic Old Havana at 58-B Chacon Street (between Cuba and Aguiar streets). Passersby and neighbors alike —taking walks and running their daily errands— form a part of her paintings as characters of quotidian life.
Read MoreOverlooking Havana’s Plaza de Armas stands the Hotel Santa Isabel. On the top floor is the watchtower, from which one can appreciate Havana Bay, or the former fishing villages of Regla and Casa Blanca, the Castillo de la Real Fuerza colonial fortress and the baroque Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, which today is the city museum. (21 photos)
Read MoreOn the night of each January 27, the day before the birth date of Jose Marti, Cuba’s National Hero, university students carry out a torch light march beginning from the expansive stairway of the University of Havana. The first march took place in 1953 on the hundredth anniversary of Marti’s birth. Participating back then were some of the young people who were planning the assault on the Moncada and Cespedes garrisons in Santiago de Cuba and Bayamo, which would take place six months later. (23 photos)
Read MoreRussian pop singer Leonid Agutin and Cuban Latin jazz flautist and band leader Orlando “Maraca” Valle joined forces to deliver a unique concert at Havana Cathedral Plaza. They enjoyed the company of Buena Vista Social Club diva Omara Portuondo and tres guitar master Pancho Amat. (29 photos)
Read MoreSituated on Old Havana’s main pedestrian boulevard, the Ilé Bata House of Drums is a community-based initiative in which children and teens of both sexes can develop their abilities in dance, painting, percussion, and theater. Presentations such as the one featured here —in which other artists were invited to participate— sooth the soul while filling the artists with pride.
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