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Cuban artist Alberto Lescay receives the 2021 National Visual Arts award

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  • Posted on 29/12/202101/01/2022

Painter and sculptor from Santiago de Cuba, Alberto Lescay Merencio, has this week been awarded…

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Yes to the Havana Biennial! Art floods Havana from November to April

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  • Posted on 13/11/202114/11/2021

More than 300 artists, gallery owners, promoters, critics and theorists from various disciplines from Latin…

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  • Cuban Art

Casas de Cultura in Cuba: “Empowering communities to access, consume and create culture”

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  • Posted on 19/10/202119/10/2021

Interview with Agustín Adrián Pérez, Vice-President of the National Council of Casas de Cultura, published…

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Havana Art Biennial: November 2021-April 2022 announced

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  • Posted on 27/08/2021

Designed like a piece of art in itself, whose process is as important as the…

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Imprint of a generation

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  • Posted on 06/07/202106/07/2021

Cuban art students raise their voices through their works, against the economic blockade imposed on…

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45 years of Cuba’s University of the Arts (ISA)

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  • Posted on 08/06/202125/06/2021

The Cuban Higher Institute of Art (ISA), since 2013 known as the University of the…

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Cuban artist Salvador González Escalona, founder of Havana’s famous Callejon de Hamel

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  • Posted on 22/04/202108/06/2021

Salvador González Escalona, known to all as Salvador, the celebrated artist and cultural promoter of…

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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 30/03/202101/01/2022

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

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  • Posted on 24/12/2020

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

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  • Cuban Art

Rafael Zarza wins Cuban National Visual Arts Prize 2020

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  • 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

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  • 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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  • Cuban Art

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

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  • 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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  • Cuban Art

The Cimarrón: a Cuban monument of resistance to slavery

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  • 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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“In these times art has been vital for many people” Cuban artist Glenda Salazar interviewed

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  • Posted on 08/06/202024/04/2021

In Cuba, Glenda Salazar (Holguín, 1982) is one of the most outstanding creators of Land…

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  • Cuban Architecture

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

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  • 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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Happy International Workers Day 1 May! Here are some great Cuban graphic posters from the 1970s produced to mark the day, courtesy of Jose Marti national library archive in Havana.
A great loss for Cuban culture today with the news Jose Luis Cortes, well-loved Cuban musician and music innovator, leader of 90s dance music group NG Ia Banda and architect of timba, has passed away at the age of 70 in Havana. RIP El Tosco
UK tour 8 April - 21 May - Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas pairs up with his former mentor, grammy-nominated Eduardo Martin, both amazing Cuban acoustic guitarists to perform their own mix of jazz, flamenco, pop, Afro and traditional Cuban pieces.
Thursday 28 April London - UK Premiere of new feature film Mambo Man, set in Bayamo in rural eastern Cuba, with Cuban actors, the story follows the highs and lows of a local entrepreneur. Part moral tale, part musical showcase, you can’t resist the sumptuous cinematography and country music.
Catch a screening 19 April with Cuba Solidarity Brighton UK of 'Herencia’ (Inheritance) (2019) Director Ana Hurtado. A documentary by a Spanish filmmaker focusing on Cuba’s African heritage, with interviews with Cuban writers, artists, musicians and dancers.
London Tuesday 12 April 8pm - Cuban cinema fans can catch a special screening of the 1978 Cuban feature film ‘El Brigadista’ by director Octavio Cortazar, which centres on the trials and tribulations of a 15 year old sent to teach people in the countryside during the Literacy Campaign across the island in 1961. In person and online - book your places now. Hosted by @sandsfilmscinemaclub and Cuba Solidarity Campaign North London.

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