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Cuban artists Wifredo Lam and Belkis Ayon in Whose tradition? Tate Liverpool 14 Nov 2021-Jan 2022

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  • Posted on 30/03/202126/06/2022

14 Nov 2021 – Jan 2022 Art exhibition: Whose Tradition?, Tate Liverpool As part of…

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Cuban cartoonist Ares wins the 2020 national comedy award, together with Juana Bacallao

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 24/12/2020

The Cuban illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Arístides Hernández (Ares) in December received the 2020 National…

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Rafael Zarza wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize 2020

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 19/12/202024/05/2021

If there is an image of a bull in a Cuban painting – often portrayed…

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Pedro de Oraá – master of Cuban abstraction

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 05/09/202029/09/2020

The death of Cuban artist Pedro de Oraá (born 1931), on 25 August 2020, dealt…

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Explore artworks at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana online

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 21/08/202019/12/2020

With a collection of more than 30 thousand works of art, the Cuban National Museum…

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The Cimarrón: a Cuban monument of resistance to slavery

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/06/202019/12/2020

From the town of El Cobre in Eastern Cuba, about 15km out of Santiago de…

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Cuban Natural and Cultural Heritage available to all in the fight against COVID-19 through culture

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 29/05/202017/07/2020

  Cuban artist and director of the Polymita Publishing House in Cuba, Julio A. Larramendi…

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Tamayo, art and the pandemic

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 11/04/202018/07/2020

Without abandoning his usual dose of humour, Cuban artist Reynerio Tamayo has been posting on…

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Lesbia Vent Dumois wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 22/01/202021/08/2020

The Cuban painter and printmaker Lesbia Vent Dumois has won Cuba’s most prestigious annual visual…

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Havana and Trinidad become UNESCO Creative Cities

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 10/11/201904/08/2020

This 30 October, the Cuban cities of Havana and Trinidad have been designated as UNESCO…

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Who was Aponte?

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  • Posted on 24/10/2019

José Antonio Aponte was a free black Cuban man of Yoruba origin born in the…

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A visit to the Havana Biennial – ‘Constructing the possible’ (with photos)

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 30/04/201928/09/2020

Despite all the odds, Havana has pulled off a magnificent Biennial this April. With this…

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The important thing is what you don’t see: interview with Toirac, Cuban National Arts Award winner

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 28/02/201928/02/2019

The artist, recently honoured with the National Award for Visual Arts 2018, attempts to reveal…

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Havana Art Biennial April 2019:The Construction of the Possible

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  • Posted on 27/02/201927/02/2019

Under the slogan ‘The construction of the possible’, the 13th Havana Art Biennial is due…

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Jose Angel Toirac wins National Arts Award

  • by cuba50
  • Posted on 18/11/201802/03/2019

Cuban artist José Ángel Toirac is to be awarded the Cuban National Visual Arts Prize…

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