I’m One of Cuba’s Political Prisoners. When Will I Go Free?

In early April, amid mounting U.S. pressure, the Cuban government announced that it was releasing over 2,000 prisoners in ...
Westchester Magazine

Rye-Based Artist Jorge Otero-Pailos Pairs Artwork With History

Rye’s Jorge Otero-Pailos is an internationally renowned artist and preservationist known for his daring installations, which combine history, design, and destruction. For Jorge Otero-Pailos, beauty is ...
Yahoo

Dissident artist, rapper sentenced to prison in Cuba

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Diplomats from several countries wait outside the court building where a trial is going on for Cuban artists Luis Manuel Otero ...
Hyperallergic

Cuba Sentences Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara to Five Years in Prison

A Havana court announced today, June 24, that Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara will serve five years in prison for "contempt, defamation, and public disorder," charges human rights ...
Artnet

U.S. Leaders Are Calling for the Release of Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Who Has Been Detained for Months Without Trial

North American leaders and artists are calling on the Cuban government to release artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, who has been detained for months without the prospect of a trial and ...
Hyperallergic

Cuban Artists Test the Frontiers of Political Dissent

Raychel Carrión, "Romper" (2020), graphite on paper (Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) Against the backdrop of Cuba's ongoing assault on human rights, an otherwise prosaic image of a bus without ...
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‘No Seasoning’ brings Afro-Cuban outsider art into focus in North Miami

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Work by seven Afro-descendant Cuban artists whose practices developed far from academic training, commercial markets and the ...
insider.si.edu

Picturing Cuba art, culture, and identity on the island and in the diaspora edited by Jorge Duany

La biblioteca recibió apoyo federal del Fondo de Iniciativas Latinas, administrado por el Museo Nacional del Latino Estadounidense. Library purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, ...
Artnet

Two Dissident Artists Stood Trial in Cuba This Week. Despite Pleas From Human Rights Groups, They Could Face Years in Prison

Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and rapper Maykel Castillo each face lengthy prison sentences. Police officers guard the entrance to the Marianao Municipal Court in Havana, on May 31, 2022, where ...
KSAT

Dissident artist, rapper sentenced to prison in Cuba

Diplomats from several countries wait outside the court building where a trial is going on for Cuban artists Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Maykel Castillo in Havana, Cuba, Monday May 30, 2022. The ...
WRIC

Dissident artist, rapper sentenced to prison in Cuba

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HAVANA (AP) — Two members of a loose-knit ...