In a new show on view at Galería Habana, Jorge Otero Escobar resurrects the image of the rural peasant, or guajiro, a constant theme in Cuban art and literature in the 20th century.But with a twist.

On May 24, Tania Bruguera, Tomás Sánchez, and other Cuban artists wrote to Jorge Fernandez, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, demanding that their works be removed from view until ...

Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara ... last weeks,” and “more committed than ever to work for freedom from the place of art in Cuba, ... as the Cuban actor Jorge ...

Otero Alcántara has been held in Guanajay, a maximum-security penitentiary south of the Cuban capital, since 2021. "To the artists, theorists, collectors and art lovers who will visit the 2024 ...

For Jorge Otero-Pailos, beauty is found in the most unlikely places. The director and professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University , as well as an artist and preservationist, Otero-Pailos ...

The in-your-face Cuban art in OAS exhibition doesn’t want for swagger. July 21, 2016. ... Her piece complements Jorge Otero’s “hand-knit” photos of working-class Cubans, ...

Cultural diplomacy and Cuban art go on exhibit at the OAS June 24, 2016 More than 8 years ago “Tenerse a sí mismo, tan llenos de fe y esperanzas,” or “Holding Oneself, Full of Faith and ...

One of Cuba’s most rebellious dissidents has spent more than ten days in a closely guarded hospital in Havana but it’s not clear what – if anything – he is being treated for.

Many Cuban artists told Otero Alcantara they fear their careers could be affected if they ... But Jorge Fernandez, head of Cuba's Museum of Fine Arts and director of the last official ...

The artists in Umbral, or “threshold,” address the dystopia of voicing dissent on the island and the tension of existing as a Cuban citizen anywhere in the world.

Cuban artists aligned with the artist and activist group 27N have asked Jorge Fernández, the director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, to remove their works from display as a form of protest ...